"Diane Von Furstenburg is one hot, sexy mama!"-Tim Gunn, on how sex [with a lower case "s"] sells.

Okay I lied. TODAY was the best day ever. Oh my goodness. I cannot even describe today to you. It was seriously...this is why I'm in New York and today is the reason I want to be in this industry. When my alarm went off it played "Unwritten" [a sign!?] Me and Chels got up at 6:30 and I felt like we were getting ready for the first day of school...which we sort of were! We got all dressed up and helped eachother figure out what to wear and then it was off to class!



It was pouring rain and we had to wait outside for a while but it didn't even matter because it was THAT exciting! At 8:30 we got checked in and got our flipping AWESOME goodie bags. You have no idea. We got SO MUCH FREE STUFF. And I know you all know how I feel about free stuff! We had some time to kill before classes started so naturally we went to Starbucks and got lattes.






After that we headed over to the Condé Nast Building for our first classes. I had the floor tour [EEP!] and it was FANTASTIC. It was so cool to see all the behind the scenes things!


Some of the cubicles.

The model board.


The style board.

The books.

The CLOSET!

The closet.

The closet.

The closet.

COOLEST PICTURE EVER!!!!!! I felt like Lauren.

Next, me and Chelsea had our Q&A session with the editors. Amy Astley was there! And so was Kimball Hastings [Style Blogger!] They basically told me exactly what I thought they would. That it doesn't matter where you go to school, it's what you get out of it and as long as you have passion and knowledge of the industry you'll get in. So...FIT here I come...?


The editors.

ME AND AMY ASTLEY!

Then it was a break for lunch. Me and Chels had packed bagels so we went to [you guessed it] Starbucks! After lunch we both had the session with the Creative Director of Teen Vogue. She basically CREATED Nylon. Yeah. It was interesting but it was mostly about magazine design [something neither me or Chels are really interested in.]


The Creative Director of Teen Vogue.

After that I had...VERA WANG. But I saw Tommy Hilfiger on the way to class! Vera was awesome. She was so funny and sweet and very motherly. She gave some great advice and I learned a lot interesting little facts about her. Like she's used at least 1 Beatles song in every one of her shows for the past 5 years! Apparently she's a huge fan and is really good friends with the director of Across The Universe.


TOMMY!

VERA!

When Chels' class was over she met up with me in the theatre for our AMAZING Tim Gunn seminar! Okay. I LOVE Tim Gunn. I want to like be best friends with him so that we can just talk together all the time about everything. Seriously. I'm not kidding. I love him. He's so hilarious. And really insightful and it was just incredible to even get to listen to him talk about style and fashion. He even said "Make it work!" I ALMOST DIED! And this one guy asked him during the Q&A session "Do you know where the nearest Red Lobster is?" I SERIOUSLY LAUGHED SO HARD. That kid made my day. And Tim goes "Actually there's one in Time's Square a few blocks from here! I didn't even know it existed before André...actually Santino showed it to me." Classic. It was great.


Tim "Make it work" Gunn.

Then after Tim Gunn we got...MORE FREE STUFF! And headed over to the Tiffany's party. The party was wonderful. The drinks were all Tiffany's blue and there were yummy little snacks and popcorn for the movie ["Seamless"]. The movie was great. It was really interesting to see all the behind the scenes stuff. And they gave us jelly beans that were Tiffany colors. And then...we got MORE free stuff.





Us on the red carpet!

It was kind of crazy getting home. We were going to take a cab but decided to take the metro but I had no idea to get home. So we sort of improvised it. But ended up taking a cab too. Haha. We're dorks. So we finally got home and took pictures of all our free stuff. We estimated how much free stuff we got and once we got to $350.00 we stopped. So clearly it was WAY worth it. It was worth it without any of the free stuff actually. But I do love free stuff.


Free stuff! [Dooney and Bourke bag included!]

Tiffany's Jelly Beans.





My student I.D!

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?!

...EEEP! A LITTLE BLUE BOX!

"It's like Christmas morning!" THAT'S RIGHT! I GOT A SPECIALLY DESIGNED JUST FOR TEEN VOGUE TIFFANY NECKLACE.
I OWN A TIFFANY NECKLACE. OH.MY.GOD. It's a little shopping bag that says Tiffany and Co. on it and it's silver and OMG OMG OMG! I feel so classy now!

I took 20 pages of notes at classes!

Full size Tommy Girl perfume.

An unedited, unpublished book! Priceless!

The first Clique book.

One of my 3 perfume samples. So cute!

Mascara from Maybeline!

$20.00 TO BLOOMINGDALE'S!

After that Chelsea met up with her friend that goes to NYU and I talked to Kyle and ate some yummy food. And now I'm off to sleep. Today was the best day ever. Just like every day of my life. Haha.

Much Love.
Jewlie.

"I'm sick of eating Earth Worm!"-Susan, on eating her Bertie Bots Every Flavor Beans.

Okay so today was like the most amazing day ever. Not gonna lie. Yes...it was raining and I only got 5 hors of sleep but it was still amazing. So me, Fabi, Susan and Lindsey went uptown to have breakfast at EJ's and it was so fun! We got a really great table with a nice view of the upper eastside [which is flipping GORGEOUS!] And the food was delicious.




After that we walked around the upper eastside towards Central Park and we saw a bunch of houses decorated for Halloween. So I took Lindsey's picture with one.


We all decided we want to live there...like now. Haha...yeah right. But it was still supes fun and gorgeous. So we got to Central Park and decided to just walk around because the weather was actually pretty nice. I climbed a tree...? Haha. But it was so nice to just be outside and walking around and enjoying the weather. I loved it!





We saw all parts of the park that I haven't seen before. We saw the zoo [and the SEALS!] and a kid's park and it was just lovely. We had some time to kill before we had to go meet Chelsea at the metro station so I told the girls about how my goal for this year was to find Balto [ you know...the sled dog?] because at the beginning of the movie they're at the statue of him and it's a real statue in Central Park. Of course Susan has NO idea who the heck Balto is and I have to explain the whole story [HOW DOES SHE NOT KNOW BALTO?!] And she's like "Yeah. We're never going to find it." So I'm all like "Let's find a map, let's ask some people, let's find it!" And, NOT KIDDING YOU, Susan turns around and goes "Oh. There it is." Just all matter of factly. SHE FOUND BALTO AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE WAS! But I was really really really excited. You have no idea.





I love Balto. Haha.

So then we went to meet up with Chelsea and we all did a little shopping on 5th. We went to FAO Schwartz [of course] and it was totes fun like usual!


When we left I saluted the guy...I have no idea why I did that. He probably thinks I'm an idiot now.

REINDEER!

"Houston. We have a problem."

"BUCKBEAK!"

So by then after all our scandals, me and Lindsey and Chelsea were pretty tired, plus we had the concert later, so we decided to head home. Of course we got lost. And it poured rain. Haha. We couldnt' find the subway OR a taxi for AN HOUR IN THE RAIN! It's funny now, but man was it cold then! Luckily, after searching for a taxi for a looooong time we came across the subway. We got back, got some coffee, got some food and then started to get ready for the Locksley concert!




Locksley was so amazing live! You have no idea! They're like The Beatles meets Rooney meets The Kooks. And they were supes down to earth. They let audience members play their instruments with them during the concert! The lead guitarist was like "Here...play my guitar if you can play G, D, E" Wait...WHAT?! That's like amazing! They were really funny too! I suggest everyone check them out. Oh and at the end during their last song everyone got up on the runways and the stage and danced and sang with them. It was like...euphoric. I'm not even kidding. It was insane but amazing. And we met/got our picture taken with the bassest Aaron! He was totes cute!


Us and Aaron.

Me and Kayla

Me and Chels!


That's a clip of them live [but on Jimmy Kimmel not at our concert].

So I came home and checked the Fred Flare blog and Jen had posted an entry. And guess what was in it...? No joke this is direct quote [ew. That rhymed.] "WAIT…WHAT?" I KNOW RIGHT?! I flipped out! Jen is picking up on my weird lingo! This made me so happy I was laughing so hard. It made my day. Oh and here's some pictures of the Bubble Tea from two Thursdays ago and our trip to Ricky's this past Thursday night.






But then, naturally, I was supes tired plus there's all the seminars tomorrow and such so it's off to bed for me!

Much Love.
Jewlie.