Swag&report: NYC
Day 0
Land in Newark airport, Carmens friend's pick us up (all the way from Brooklyn) and drive us to uptown Manhattan, Inwood neighborhood to our bed&breakfast. Area is kind of sketchy, and 20minutes away from the down town core by the A line, which is okay I guess. Hit up American mcdicks and then went to sleep.
Day 1
Spent the day exploring, I like structure in my day, and I was wearing atrocious sandals so my feet were literally raw flesh so it was kind of a blehh day.
We walked along.... fashion street? Or something, passed Parsons, visited the New York Times building, had lunch at schnipper's quality kitchen. The signs, and interior really drew us in... Very modern, for a place that sells sloppy joes and mac&cheese.
Day 2
Thursday was the day we went to The Met, to witness Savage Beauty. It was completely packed, and we waited for 2 1/2 hours. Totally worth it. The exhibit designers went all out. There was the razor clam dress, and a tailoring example (I believe) and It started with his earliest works, and moved onto his couture work with Givenchy, then his last collection. From there it focused on head pieces, shoes, molded leather work, leather cut work, and metal work. The next room staged Voss at a small level (2 way mirror, 2 dresses from that collection, and then a video clip of the large lady with the tubes coming out of her in the back ground) that was one of my favourite parts. Around the corner there was a 'room' that had the Highland Rape pieces shown then they had a box you had to peer through (if you could fight the crowd) and it showed the hologram of Kate Moss as it was during the show. I'm still baffled how they did it. From there they had pieces from the pirate collection (spring 2003?) the collection based off of the movie they shoot horses don't they, I can't remember the exact order, but from there they had the iconic oyster dress from Irere, and a couple pieces from the collection that had the large Japanese influence: It's Only a Game. The next bit was a little bit of a blur because I saw the Sarabande dress, the one with the silk and real flowers. Seeing that dress in real life was so surreal and I'd be lying if I said I grabbed my balls and didn't cry. The last room showed Platos Atlantis. The mannequins heads had extensions that looked like the hair, and it was incredible. They had the clip of the model swimming/thrashing/drowning on the ceiling. With every room they had music from each show that best suited the mood. I'm sorry this isn't as detailed as I hope, I'm struggling to remember every thing because it's become a blur. Kind of like when you wake up from a wonderful dream, you know it was happy and you're smiling but you can't put your finger on why.
we had lunch at the Mets restaurant. the bill came to $75.00 for two people :/ I had a fancy grilled cheese sandwich, Carmen had a fancy salad, a glass of riesling and we shared some dessert (warm peaches with pepper and rosemary and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.) It was pretty good, but jeez louise
we checked out the other exhibits, 17th century manor interiors or something, paintings (Pastel Portraits was exceptionally beautiful), roman sculptures, ancients arms and armor.
Very cool stuff. I did see the most beautiful rosary by a german carver.
this one to be exact. I so badly want a reproduction of it.
this image is from the metropolitan museum of arts data base.
after we walked to a station, but came across the cutest little shake shop that was in the nanny diaries (there was a picture of Uma with the cook too!!) . It's been there since the 20's apparently. lexington candy shop. Really good. I had the raspberry malt shake, and it was $7.00 but enough for two glasses *_* I would totally go there again. Milk shakes are in my top five favourite foods, even though I can't have them :C I can't have a lot of my favourite foods though... Too much dairy >:C why is it so easy to like what you can't have.
went to Times Square bought some converse, and undies at Victoria Secret, and had a sundae.
Day 3
Lunch with Jan. The only low point of my trip. I don't even want to talk about it.
Went back and changed,
Explored SoHo, went into Top Shop, All Saints (so much love), visited Aritzia (pink raptors on display!) and ate at some organic natural pub which was weird. and expensive..
Then we moseyed on over to the empire state building around 12am and basked in the COLD wind and glory.
Day 4
Went to the Alexander Mcqueen store in the Meat Packing district. It smelled so good, and I touched everything. EVERYTHING. The woman who was helping me was clearly a n00b, cause she thought the ring I was going to buy was an older design when it was released literally a week before I boarded the plane. I found it in the store and was all like :/
We ate at Pop Burger, I got some cheese sticks (top 5 favourite food, and still something I can't eat >:C) which were like 10$ excuuuuse me, and there was only like 5 ones. Mind you they were kind of long, but still. Deep fried cheese is not worth 10$. We checked out the Chelsea Market , which has an Anthropologie, and a Fat Witch! Super cute. Carmen and I were filled with envy when we saw some 7 year old kid eating a whole lobster by him self.
We walked the skyline, which was really nice. And headed back to the subway station to go pick up some tickets at the 50% off booth (TKTS). The only show we wanted to see was Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and we were literally the last two people to get orchestra seats haha. The show was perfection. I'm so glad they used the tampon/bang line.
ps; NEVER go to Sbarros. It is fast, but the food is terrible and expensive. The end. I literally had to throw up for 8 hours after that fiasco.
Day 5
We went to the Guggenheim, the structure of that building is absolutely magnificent. I appreciated the art as well of course. We headed out to west village, and found an adorable cooking ware store and bought some star wars cookie cutters :D So stoked
cookie cutters
checked out where tokyo rebel was located, found a flea market and picked up some comics from the 80's, got a cereal milk shake from momofuku milk bar. suuuper good, took a bus to the brooklyn bridge walked across it, it was long and boring blah blah
it was really tiny...
Day 6
On our last day we decided to get off at the Grand Central Station (carmen wanted to feel all gossip girly) so we also went to the market to grab a bite to eat c:
lunch of champions: Organic chocolate milk, $2.00- broccoli fancy cheese bread, $4.00 and it was so big I had half of it for dinner lolol
as for the MoMA, we only had 45 minutes to observe, I only managed to do the 4th level, but I got to see Andy Warhols Gold Marilyn Monroe. What a sight.
I booked it home (after taking the wrong train ugh) and got ready for the signing at tokyo rebel. It was way too hot to be in all black x_x But I'm glad I got to go. I got me some Melty Mermaid while I was at it B) and more momofuku!! SO GOOD seriously.
sup bitches
Day 7
air port HOME!
and because I'm like this, more pictures of swag.
I'm so fucking happy to be able to buy my first AATP piece brand new, in my favourite colour way, and it fucking fits. life is okay right now.
over all, I don't like times square, I'd go there again in the winter, but maybe for not as long.I was worried sick about my cat the entire time, so when Dad intercepted mom on the phone and told me she missed me a lot (she apparently meows all day long and whined) I was so ready to go home and cuddle that little stinker. AND WE HAD FUN NAP TIMES FOR EVER
not to mention mom conjured up a delicious bbq as a welcome back celebration yaaay