I’m sat here writing this from our
apparently haunted, but perfect Hotel in regards to warmth and location. Don’t
get me wrong, the décor is a little dated with a colour palette of beige and
magnolia, the horizontal stripped wallpaper and the lift is a little cranky;
but I personally didn’t come to New York to sit in the hotel, I came to
adventure and my god did we do that on our first day!
Up bright early the sight of slow falling
snow outside our room got me ridiculously excited to visit Times Square! On
route we stopped off at Victoria’s Secret just off of Times Square and I
thought the VM at Birmingham’s new store was extravagant! If the walls weren’t
streaming videos of the most recent 2015 VS show of the angels strutting
alongside Taylor Swift, they were pink and decorated with immaculate pictures
of the Angels. Tables that displayed underwear garments were guarded by an
angel mannequin that’s wings were beautifully embroided to match the underwear
in which being displayed. Birmingham hasn’t got shit on New York!
Times Square was pretty as I imagined,
similar to London’s Leicester Square but on a completely different scale; like
most things in America everything was bigger, much bigger and much better!
After being engulfed by all the lights for sometime we decided to take a wonder
in Sephora; the best make up store ive ever stepped foot in! Of course as
expected, a group of girls in the best make-up store in New York City, we all
got a little lost and went crazy! The more glitter the better!
Next on the list was a visit to The Museum
of FIT, the Fashion and Textile History Gallery. ‘Faking it’ was the
exhibition. Looking at originals, copies and counterfeit garments from the famous
Coco Chanel classic suit and recent copies of Jeremy Scotts play on the Golden Arches
for Moschino. Scott asked the marketing department at McDonalds for their
approval to use their iconic logo within his worked and they approved. Since
2013 the Moschino collection has been seen everywhere as well as the idea of
consumerism alongside super brand names. High End advertisement for McDonalds;
they be silly not too!
Wendy Williams is an America Gossip
Queen! Being on her show was something else. Firstly we got approached outside
FIT and were persuaded to become a part of the audience. Being compacted single
file into an industrial sized lift that felt as if we were about to take part
in some sort of ‘Hunger Games’ style fight for survival programme we were all
some what.. Shitting ourselves! Walking through backstage doors to loud pumping
music bright lights and an array of disco walls got us a little more excited,
but still apprehensive, Donny Willaburg and his recently wedded wife were on
the show; chatting about their not so public wedding where in which around only
100 people attended, not to mentioned the thousands who witnessed them say ‘I
do’ on their reality TV show, not too public ay! All in all the experience was
ridiculous and so interesting how the producer took part in order to make us
getting crazy loud, expressive and respond to the guests that featured on the
show.
After hours of being sat in the spotlight
we headed for ‘Five Guys’, which was better than any McDonalds, I’ve ever had.
Next stop Fifth Avenue for a bit of luxury window shopping looking at the last
of the Christmas visual merchandising from Bergdorf Goodman’s, Tiffany and
Louis Vuittion ect!
The highlight of the day for me was our
trip up to the top of the Rockafeller center. I was ridiculously excited to see
the Rockafeller Christmas Tree, which was featured on Home Alone; I think
everywhere we explored on this trip I referred to Home Alone… KEVIN! The noise
was solitude and so peaceful, I almost shed a tear to how beautiful the view
was among thousands of lights you could see from all over it just amazed me
that their were millions going about their day in one view and all you could
hear was silence. Ridiculous.
New York, Can i Stay?
- With Love, DOAFDO, x
