As I type this, it's 2:12 pm on a lackluster Thursday (Scratch that-- My mom just pulled into the driveway with food. Afternoon is no longer lackluster) and my Twitter and Instagram accounts have been flooded with photos of #tbt posts, featuring last year's Fashion Week highlights. It is all overflowing with Showroom Pulls (aka hashtag FWpulls) travel beauty essentials, plane tickets, and various other hints that all the people I follow are getting ready for the style capital: New York.
Unless you live under a boulder, you already know that next week is New York Fashion Week. The streetstyle is exquisite, the collections are gorgeous, bragging about so-and-so invites becomes acceptable and everyone makes sure that every single moment is documented on social media--large wine glass in hand and after party outfits included.
Guess what? I'm not going.
And you shouldn't feel left out if you aren't either although you probably will. Why? Well, because as your friend I've come up with some ways you can stay in the know during NYFW. Because you are kind. You are smart and you ARE important.
1. Follow the Fashion Week schedule so you know which day which designer is showing. My favorite to follow is fashionweekonline.com.
2. Type the hashtag into Twitter and turn on your notifications. Expect your phone to vibrate every few seconds with updates. Let these vibrations fuel your confidence.
3. Despite your current location, dress up in what you would wear if attending. Street sweeping cream trousers in white linen that never seem to get dirty, check! Have a friend that owes you a favor to take some snaps of you preferably in front of a brick wall or in the middle of the street.
4. Follow the big bloggers on Instagram (and me too, obviously) like @Man Repeller, @KristinaBazan, @Songofstyle etc. And the big magazines & publications like @Voguemagazine, @whowhatwear, @Refinery29, @Harpersbazaarus for behind the scenes shots and streetstyle photos.
5. Drop phrases such as, "Oh, I can't wait to attend Cushnie this year." and, "I just hate having to hail cabs in between shows! I might miss the photographers."
6. Live vicariously through the show's live streams. Who's the real winner here: the girl trudging through the crowds in the snow or you crying watching from the comfort of your own cozy bed with a hot latte?
7. Grab a glass bottle of red wine, sit at your laptop, watch the live stream, write your review articles while simultaneously sipping said wine, explain your favorite collections to your dog. She will listen.
Finally, here is a list of things to tweet and/or text your friends.
- - Is it just me, or do all these blouses resemble vaginas?
- - SO glad I did a two week cleanse before going to these fittings.
- - I just loved that Sarah Seven dress. You know which one! With the white, and the ruffles, on that blonde girl? Such craftsmanship.
- - Ohmygod. I just totally got lost searching for the bathroom before Lacoste!
- - Did you hear that normcore is dead? You can definitely tell.
- - Two words: Baja East. Right? Right.
Now it's your turn. How do you keep up with FW from the comfort of your bed?
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