I need a bat

Today my morning started with a big desire to take a baseball bat and crash a car (or maybe two) that was passing by me while I was on my way to work. Nice beginning, huh?
It didn't get much better later on. Don't want to discuss this now and here, but trust me, when I got home about an hour ago, I felt like it was the best thing that happened to me today.
... But that feeling I got when I saw a car passing by me and imagined crashing and smashing it - oh my, that was so good... It would've been better if I actually did it, but I am a good girl so I thought that some stranger doesn't deserve to get his car crashed in the early morning just for nothing. I wish somebody would've just come to me, gave me the bat and showed me a car (a good, new, all shiny one) that I could smash into zillion pieces. Never happened.

Sad day

A very, very sad sad day...

Feeling life

I'm a true superhero today, I managed to do so much in so short amount of time!
Just love this feeling when at the end of the day you think of how that day started and you think "That was today? It seems like so long ago" - I guess this is the moral feeling of an active life. So good.

Spring 2010: Best Runway Looks (Part 11: O & P)

Oscar de la Renta

 

Beautiful gowns and day looks.

Peter Som

Great looks for day, I would wear each of them with pleasure.

Pollini

Nice clothes, good looks.

Prabal Gurung

Good looks, nice feminine dresses.

Prada

Can't say that I love this Prada collection very much, but the last dress here is very cute (impossible to sit in though).

Pringle of Scotland

I'm in love with the 1st dress, and other looks are also very well put together.

Proenza Schouler

Nice dresses with sexy animal prints.

Krasnoyarsk review

On sunday night I came back from my trip to Krasnoyarsk for their fashion week (or night, to be correct). I gotta say - I had a lot on my mind.
To begin with, Krasnoyarsk is a nice town with beautiful mountains and we were lucky enough to live in a spa-hotel right beside them, so that we could enjoy a spectacular view just from our window (not that there was much time to enjoy the view tough). But aside of the mountains the good things about our trip come to an end.
Everything was organized very badly. I'm not going to discuss all details here because that would be very unprofessional on my side, I'll just say that my expectations were not satisfied in many ways.
I' don't even want to post any pictures from that trip and there's no point.

Happy 1st day of summer by the way! :)

Yet another fashion week

Tonight I am leaving for Krasnoyarsk, we are going to show Olga Buzytskaya's collection "КЛУБника" on their Siberian Fashion Weekend, so if you are from this city, you should come, I'm sure it's going to be an interesting show + there are about 4 designers beside us showing.
I'll give you the review later on :)

By the way

I have totally forgot to share my thought on Vogue Russia May 2010, so here they are now.
I don't know if Aliona Doletskaya reads my blog (world is full of surprises, you know) or someone else from Conde Nast does, or maybe I was not the only one who was pissed off by "God-save-Amreica" February issue, but exactly 3 months after my open letter to Ms. Doletskaya (read here: http://alena-fashion.blogspot.com/2010/02/vogue-russia-february-2010.html) I buy Vogue Russia again and what I see? An issue based on Russian designers, artists, models, buyers, even pharmaceuticals! Isn't this marvelous? I guess it wasn't that hard to make a good issue about your home country, to promote your home country designers and to help our struggling fashion business to make to the next step. 
Thank you, you almost made me cry! No joke.

Jean Paul Gaultier on Kazanskiy railway station

As I've been out of the town since Friday night until Saturday evening and had no time to watch TV, I have missed the huge fashion event that took place in Moscow - Mr. Jean Paul Gaultier showed his couture collection on Kazanskiy railway station! When I first heard about it I was like "Are you kidding?!" and then I couldn't speak for a couple seconds when I saw video and photos from the event.
Regardless how Jean Paul ended up showing his couture collection on Moscow's ailway station, it is a huge deal for our country's fashion industry. I wish I was there to witness this incredible show!
Anyways, here are just a few pictures from the press conference and the show:

 

Who knew Kazanskiy was so beautiful? :)

What is so spectacular is that Mr. Gaultier has collected his creations from 5 past years for this show, and all together they sort of represented different stories and eras:
  

Breathtaking.
He is a true couture designer, even his ready-to-wear collection always seem couture to me.

I'm back!

Today I came back from Kemerovo where we had a fashion show of Siberian (or to be more correct, Novosibirsk) best designers. Everything went really well and I would like to thank the organizer for the good level of the event and for the comfort they provided us with during the trip. But back to the show.
So there were 3 designers who showed their collections: Olga Buzytskaya, Daniil Antsiferov and Elena Maslenkina. Last two are young but very perspective Novosibirsk designers, I think you'll hear more about them soon.
To be honest I didn't have much time to take pictures as there were tons of stuff to do, but here are a few from backstage (I hope I'll get more later):
Models getting hair & make-up ready

  

Do you wanna see the conditions we had backstage? Check this out (to be clear: this is the car hangar as the event was held in a new Citroen auto-centre):

I mean it - no joke - our stuff was literally on the floor and, like, all over the place. That was probably the worst part of the whole event.

And here are models just with hair & make up and then all dressed up:

 

As for how everything went - as I have already said it, it was fine. The public might have been a bit too shy or something, we expected bigger reaction and more activity from the people that came. Anyways, I had fun, the wether was great, there were no delays and no drama - all very smooth, and that is always good on occasions like that.

So thanks everyone for your presence and hope to see you again :)

Another fashion week

Tonight I'm leaving for another fashion week here in my region, this time it will be in Kemerovo. We are going to show Olga Buzytskaya's Fall 2010 collection "КЛУБника", I am excited, but there obviously is going to be tons of work tomorrow. So I'm going to get some rest now and then give you all the exclusives later when I'm back, so stay in touch :)