For the past week and a half, all my channels of social media have been clogged with fashion week news. Having fabulous friends here in Toronto who flew down to NYFW, a cousin living and working in fashion in New York and a slew of friends I made in Britain during a fashion internship, my jealousy on a scale of 1 to 10 is a 100.
So follow these easy steps* to get over the pain, one day at a time.
1.Troll. Troll hard.
Nothing eases scorned feelings like being an good old-fashioned internet troll.
Friend got photographed by street style photographers? Yea, you would have too but, y’know you were too busy at some exclusive underground event. Ya, her outfit was cute, but did you see the hangnail on her pinky finger? (note – no one pictured had a hangnail. But I looked pretty hard).
2. Have your own fashion week.
Who needs famous designers? Models? Sponsors? You have your apartment, a bottle of wine and your pet. You can have Karl over one night, Andre Leon Talley the next and no one can tell you otherwise. All you need is some makeup, a few wigs and a little bit of tape. Imagined fashion weeks are way better than the real deal, duh!
3. Stream
Thanks to technology, you can watch fashion shows around the world live from the comfort of your bed. So when your friend texts you, “Wow, you should have been at the L’Wren Scott show,” you can quip back “Look 20, yea, wasn’t really into it.” Read: you were soooo into it.
If you really want to take it one step further, you can always act like you were there, but you had to duck out a little early to beat ‘the crowds’.
*These steps may be applied to all subsequent fashion weeks, including Paris and Milan.
