En Route Fashion Week: Here’s a list of things to do!

We all hustle when its really time for the shows to begin. With Street style photographers, bloggers and editors hovering around we all want to play the part. I didn’t have a guide book telling me what to do, so here’s what I have come up with, from my fashion week frenzy experience.

The list is pretty simple

1) What to wear? Firstly before anything starts mark your calendars for the looks you need to wear for the next 6 days. This is the most productive thing you will probably do to save time. Because busy people don't ponder looking at their wardrobes, they know what to wear! Always! Do your shopping a month in advance. I usually look out for one statement piece a day (a coat, pants, blouse or shoes) and pair it with classics.

Here's a little fashion inspiration for the insiders

2) Coffee! You definitely need to be tanked up on caffeine and having an on-the-go coffee cup can be used as the matching accessory to keep you company. There are some amazing versions you need to get a hold off now! 

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3) Carry your ipad! I know you're proud of your iPhone 6 and 6+ but lets get serious if you're for real you know the importance of a notebook or more like the usual big size tablet, an iPad or a macbook to make those notes and do the real time interviewing. Its not cool to not have your SLR on you if you really want to capture the right moment. Be bold and sling the camera it works as the perfect accessory too.

4) The fashion week Bag. It’s really okay for a poser to walk with an insignificantly small bag but NOT for someone who is serious about covering the fashion week. Buy the latest oversized tote, the bigger the better. It all comes with sizeable meaning. Big space means a big you who is resourceful with all the things you need at one place. (Including those high heals for the after hours)

5) The Coat/Jacket! An over sized jacket to just throw over your chic ensemble is an absolute must. They have to keep the temp. cool at the show, and also because the forecast for March is not so warm. Cover your shoulders up with something plain, simple and classic. And the more of these you have the more you need to change them everyday. 

6) The comfy trainers. And oh boy! Do I recommend keeping your trainers on stand by? Yes I do. Fashion week can be severely taxing in heals all day. And also because it is comfortably desirable to be spotted in a pair of Stan Smith’s or neon Nikes.

7) Energy Fluids. Keep Hydrating yourself with a squeezy full off your favourite juice. This will only help you through the day right upto the time of that after party. Because you need the energy for that lousy mid day show after lunch. It does get really tiring. 

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8) Make-up pouch. Carry a small make up pouch with your quickly ‘fix me’ essentials. You do need this to look super fly for that after party. A quick touch-up goes a long way! 

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NYFW A/W 2015/16 - Luxe Minimalism and Graphics Logos

Fashion Week is my favourite time of the year; when social media is off the roof with all the frow hashtags, flashing street style and fresh new trends. Besides tanking up on coffee and wearing the best of the best, the drama and spontaneity of work can be totally taxing as well as exhilarating. 

We do always try and handpick our favourite collections and talk about the details. More often than not they are the ones that lead the trends of the upcoming seasons.   

So far The Row & Marc by Marc Jacobs are our favourites from the AW 2015/16 version.

The Row

Even if I keep aside the fact that I have followed Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen’s work for a while now, this collection has beaten my obsession hollow. 

It was a very New Yorker moment right out of the books of fashion and movies. I could literally see the twins gliding through Park Avenue wearing slip-ons and straight tailored leather coats.  

The unfettered pant-suits have probably made The Row customer a corporate junkie overnight. Oversize shapes and the fuss free silhouette was mixed to the right degree of seriousness. And it was actually at the corner of where comfort met elegance next to a soft duffle bag placed very strategically. I could just not get enough of how comfortable the entire runway looked in this universe of minimalism. Knotted leather belts over seductive silk robes and flared trousers were the right way to be more superfine. I was excited knowing that this woman is going to town looking luxe chic and slightly more distinguished than the rest of the crowd. Super sharp tailoring and a refined colour palette is just what I was looking for on this runway.   

Marc by Marc Jacobs

Unique and Fresh; that’s what the Marc by Marc Jacobs collections have seemingly become synonymous with customary seasonal persistence. 

The presentation for Fall 2015 was a perfectly well balanced mix of much-needed artistic singularity and the pragmatic subtleties that are now the norm for ready to wear. The quirks that were the colourful graphics, slogans and tropical florals placed with the tailored basics like the black shirts, denims, coats, etc. accounted for this balance. The leitmotif of the show was an artsy rebel wherein the messy hair was topped by berets, black in everything interspersed with vivid colours, prints and patterns. There was an optimal restraint which contextualised in the ingenuity that manifested in silhouette like the maxis, skirts- long and others blown up like a tutu with a lace underlining- and playful prints that were contained as to give requisite limelight to all that was quintessential and modest. In the midst of the uniform spectacle that fashion weeks are this one definitely manages to stand-out and at the same time pertain to the model code of commercial viability. 

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