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NY Fashion Week F/W ’11 Show #6: Oscar de la Renta
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NEW YORK Fashion Week F/W ’11- Show No. 5: Elie Tahari!
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Special Announcement: 4.4.11
OH MY STARS…WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE DEBUTING ON APRIL 4??
ADVENTURES! Where IS Mister Levius? Five Unbelievable Months in Two Posts (Part 2)
Part 2: New York Fashion Week’s on the horizon- but stranded in London…did I make it against the odds?
I had only a week’s time to try and get everything together, and while the numerous NY Fashion Week invites brought me close, the perpetual money situation brought me so far. I began asking friends and family for help but no one was able to give in time. NYFW would start on a Thursday, and so by Friday I decided to do something absolutely crazy- travel to London’s Heathrow airport with $25 in my bank account and try to “make it happen.”
What was the outcome? It surely took a lot of “bloodshed” to get to glory. I approached a couple of airlines to try and fly that day or the next day with a round trip ticket, and they’d all give me a price that was non-negotiable. Thankfully I never had to disclose how much I could give based on my bank account…for I surely would’ve been laughed at.
I had no access to Internet but for 20 minutes because of lack of funds (Wi-Fi at Heathrow cost a fortune). The phone booths ate up my money when I tried to call to New York to let family know what was going on. It was just one link of unfortunate lack after another…and I ended up staying over at night in an airport with no booked ticket and no money, trying to make it happen.
Make that 2 nights. I spent a total of two and a half days sitting (and laying) on uncomfortable seats, with only 1 Nutri-Grain bar, some cereal crumbs, some cookies, and one to-go pasta dish to eat during that entire time. And if you think I was not doubting or wavering I thought whether this was worth it or not, you’d be dead wrong. This seemed so stupid! There were so many times where I had just wanted to give in and just go back into London, at least resting on the fact that I’d be right there for London Fashion Week. Yet again, something in me, I cannot develop into words, would “tug” at me and just wouldn’t let me give up. Something was making me stay, and as “over it” as I was, I gave in. It Continue reading
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GRAND FINALE- Oscar de la Renta/NYFW Experience: Show #17!
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Introducing: The Main Event of the New York Fashion Week season.
This was my last show to photograph for New York Fashion Week, and it surely ended with a BANG- the front row was nothing but fashion industry all-stars (Andre Leon Talley, Rachel Zoe, Franca Sozzani, Joe Zee & Robbie Myers, Patrick Demarchelier, etc) and the models lucky enough to walk the de la Renta show have been the face of many of the high fashion campaigns you see in magazines and billboards. Don’t believe me? Check out the recent ads for Gucci, Burberry, Dior, and Chanel…just for starters. It was an exhilarating cap to an unforgettable journey- from college student, to pocket camera amateur, to Fashion Week photographer in one year.
What blows my mind the most is that it only gets bigger and better for me. I intend to be a FORCE in the fashion industry…and going through the financial hell to get to my passion’s beckoning call has proved well worth it.
The Mister Levius Fashion Week Experience: Complete.
(or has is just begun?)
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LONDON Fashion Week- Show No. #6! Carolyn Massey
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LONDON Fashion Week- Show No. 1! Topshop Designer Collection Pt. 1
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I knew I’d have a bigger story if I made it to London Fashion Week. I knew that accomplishing THIS feat in a short time would truly be an achivement- and a strong case for the existence of miracles. My first show wasn’t located in the main center- Somerset House- but in an abandoned train depot turned INSANE catwalk venue. As an avid fan of architecture (of which I equally enjoy photographing) I was in La-La Land. Concrete. Steel. Glass + open sky. Curves.
And this was my first London show? Absolute bliss.
There’s nothing like a union of two seemingly different interests to make something truly magical.
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NEW YORK Fashion Week- Show No. 16! Angel Sanchez (September 16th)
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Congratulations to talented young fashion designer Maken Imcha, whom I had the utmost pleasure meeting at the senior fashion collection presentation at Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta earlier this year. She became valedictorian of her class upon graduating- and, similar to my story, chased her promising career all the way up North to New York City, where she is currently the head designer for accomplished designer/line Angel Sanchez.
It was an honor to be called up by Maken to take photos for the Angel Sanchez fashion house for an artistic collaboration with uber-talented fashion illustrator Mengjie Di, who also went to SCAD. I will reveal the final photo+illustration collection in a few days. Until then, enjoy one of my favorite Fashion Week presentations I covered during this sublime period in my young career.
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