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| - When I heard Phoenix was having a Fashion Week I was intrigued...what would Fashion Week here be like? Knowing what "fashion" is like here I had to check it out.
It was really hot with all of the lights and everything and while they had cold air blowers they were only in one part of the room and the cold air didn't circulate. I thought the shows were supposed to be Spring but on Tuesday (Boutique shows) they were definitely Fall. (Which really isn't fair here....I mean sweaters are great and if I was still living in Boston I would have been beyond excited but there isn't an opportunity for that here.) Wednesday night brought more of a Spring feel with a huge show case on swim suits, which is fun, but not something that I choose to shop fashion for. (I'm a JCrew swimsuit kinda gal.) Honestly, I have to say that for the most part I was not wowed. Most of it was stuff I have seen before over and over. One collection seriously looked like it was straight from Express last spring. There was one outfit that was so horrid I felt bad for the model that had to wear it. (Black pants, suspenders, a pink sequined cardigan (long and with big sequins) and this awful mushroom hat thing. It was terrible.) It was just a lot of current trends or trends that are on the way out....not really the future of fashion but kind of where it was and where it is. Where was the watercolor palate, the flowing chiffon, the structured hats and feminine forms that was coming out of New York? On these runways the prevailing trend for women was sequins (ick), mini dresses (yawn) and t-shirts and polos (do we consider this fashion?) For men it was button downs (yawn) and hoodies (how original).
It seemed to be a bit disorganized (nobody ever took my ticket) and at times it was distracting. There were a few times where models started to walk down the runway while people were standing on it because you never really knew when a new show was starting.
The highlight for me was definitely Wyclef and coming from someone that loves fashion as much as I do, well, that says quite a lot. (To be fair I also love Wyclef but fashion is kinda my thing.) I wasn't very happy that we had to wait an hour after the show ended for Wyclef to come on. And we had been in the garage (unfinished office building? What was it? There was definitely exposed insulation....) since 7:30 so we were a tad restless. (30 minutes after the show ended Pras came on and he was pretty awesome.) It was cool, just him and a guitar and he took Q & A from the audience. (Sadly, I knew that my favorite Wyclef songs would not be on the set list.)
The intention was really good and to be honest I had fun even if the fashion didn't have me scribbling away making my spring fashion list or cause me to go running out to the boutiques to pick up anything I saw on the runway. Overall it was a fun event (open bar always helps!) and I would definitely go again next year.
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