Beginning again

Okay... 2 years hiatus already?? wow. So much for the idea of blogging about the culture shock and shift of living in the city.

I now have a condo downtown and I am thoroughly enjoying downtown living. I walk to work (or if I'm lazy I can take a train for the 8 blocks) and take public transit everywhere. There's something going on every night to keep busy if I want to.

I experienced my first formal runway show... They had Fashion week here a couple weeks ago and I managed to be one of the last ones to fit into the tent for one of the nights of the fashion shows. Very cool!

Also, the local museum is doing a big exhibit on couture fashions in history so I had a chance to go look at a lot of historically significant fashions, and on top of that I went to a book signing by Isaac Mizrahi this week. I must admit, for a book signing that took place in a large bookstore that does several booksignings per week, it was a frustrating and chaotic mess to get the books signed and so I have no pictures of me with him because they decided they were running out of time. He was there a grand total of 1-1/2 hours from start to finish which was very disappointing considering the turnout of people that were spending money on his book and looking forward to the signing.

As part of the fashion week, I also attended a seminar on how to get a fashion line produced. It was very informative and makes me seriously consider making a sewing pattern line to sell. If I could just find some time to get to it along with all the other things I want to do (such as keeping up on a blog??!)

And about a month ago, I finally had a chance to get out to New York City and enjoyed a chance to get through the FIT museum. The clothing exhibits were nice, but I lucked out and they were having an exhibit of goth throughout history... from historical mourning clothes to current goth fashions to goth fashions incorporating future technologies. There were some STUNNING clothing examples there, and also some grunge goth yucky styles. If anyone is in that area, I strongly recommend seeing it.