Fran's Classy Baby Shower!!

I was very excited to join my friend and coworker, Fran, in celebrating the bundle of joy she is about to bring into the world tonight!! She will be having a baby girl in the next few months. She had her baby shower at Scullery downtown and it was hella classy. Here's a photo of (almost) the whole Stitch Factory team supporting our lovely coworker!!

Fran is on the far right, next to me, in black. (: I'm so excited for her and her husband to become parents because I know that little girl is going to grow up in a home full of love! Congratulations to the new family.

Something funny that happened actually was that Jillian and Jen (the two blondes in the above photo) pointed out that Rachel, Haley and I were all matching, wearing various forms of black and white stripes! 

So of COURSE we had to take an "Omg we're accidentally matching!!" photo. Before leaving, I had the hardest time picking out an outfit though. I laid two out on my bed and sent a photo of the options to 3 friends to figure out what I should wear. Here were the options:

In the end, the outfit on the right won, but I don't have a well endowed chest to be able to hold that strapless dress up because it's so loose at the top! So I ended up wearing the stripe dress (clearly haha). 

Outfit details:

Striped Dress: Styles for Less

Pendant Necklace: Hand-Me-Down from my sister Nikki

Steve Madden electric blue shoes: Platos Closet

Having a MAGICal time!

Yes, I used that tacky pun. But as you fashionistas are well aware, MAGIC is the trade show that happens in Las Vegas twice a year and is the largest men and women's contemporary fashion trade show in the whole world. And, since I have an amazing job, I was fortunate enough to attend for free! My favorite part was WWDMagic, which is the women's showroom at the Las Vegas Convention Center venue. Honestly, that showroom is like heaven. I got my badge scanned and looked up to see nothing but booths on booths of clothes that haven't hit stores yet. I wish they all did Cash-And-Carry because wholesale prices are so much cheaper than retail prices!

I've also decided that I want to start my own online shop. I have the resources to go to these shows, but I think the hardest part of starting an online shop will be the start up costs. I need to set aside a few hundred dollars, but it's a risk I am so willing to take.

Walking along the showroom floors, I just felt so incredibly comfortable. Going up to booths that grabbed my interest, asking questions to the vendors about their products just felt so natural to me. Here are some photos from my 2 days at MAGIC:

My badge!

The Sourcing convention was seemingly endless. There were about 9 USA booths. So disappointing!! Get it together, Merica.

Fashion Snoops F/W 15/16 Trends seminar

Hanging with my homegurls on the WWD floor!

S/S 15 trends! The presenter for this seminar was the best. This was my favorite seminar I attended during the whole convention. 

The Pool Trade Show floor was awesome!! Every booth was fun and lively. Surprisingly not all bathing suits though.

Walking into the FN Platform they had this clever spot for photos. Like my new white Oxfords? Shoe creds to the Goodwill on Haight St (:

1/4th of the FN Platform... All the floors were HUGE!

Awesome Denim history lesson displayed in a hallway

LVCC decked out for MAGIC 

I'm sad that I was only able to attend for 2 days, because by day 3 I was ready to make a purchase for my shop-to-be! That's okay, it'll be back in Vegas in February, and I'll be ready with a domain name, a business plan, mood boards, social media, everything that I need to be ready with so that these companies take me seriously and want their items to be on my store. I have no clue what I'm going to call it or what styles I'll be selling.... But that's beside the point. All things start with an idea, and that just so happens to be the phase I'm at right now. 

They had so many free resource magazines and printed information, so I grabbed all of it. I have 5 lbs of information to read in the next few months so I don't go in blind! 

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Thursday, June 19

It's been a while! I'm not very good at keeping regular with blog posts yet, but I'll get better with time! Anyways, today was a craaaazy day because not only did I work for like the whole day (I'm young still, 8 hours is a lot to me!) but we also had the fashion speaker series. Here's what I wore today:

 You guys have seen like my entire back yard now. 

 Shout out to my mom's shadow.

 Obsessed with these fab Aldo flats that I got from Zappos! They were the last pair in stock in my size so I had to pounce on them (plus-They were on sale!) 

 Also so obsessed with this fantastic red canvas satchel from Gypsy Warrior. I really needed a new purse and this was a great transition from my yellow one into a new color with details to keep it interesting. It's like a tiny bit too small for my taste but I can make it work (:

 Super cute photo of my shoes because since I have an iPhone and an Instagram I'm a photographer just like all the other white girls haha

Also, today at work we had D'Wayne Edwards, founder of Pensole Footwear Academy and former shoe designer for the Jordan company in to give a class about Product Design. It's really cool being this young and being able to learn about things like this. D'Wayne is also really cool and down to earth. He hung out at Stitch Factory a little after that day and was talking to a bunch of people and he gave me a lot of tips about starting a career because he knows I just graduated. He's so positive and helpful, and will tell you how it is! 

Stitch Factory also had it's monthly Fashion Speaker Series talks as well tonight! Elaine Pow, Julia Lovallo and Chelsey Hall were that night's speakers. They all had really interesting talks and Elaine really inspired me about paying attention to the detail in the branding of my future ideal company that I want to have. Idk yet for sure but I think I've figured out what I want to do with my future Fashion Merchandising degree. We'll see. Hopefully I'll just get ridiculously famous and rich soon and not have to worry about it haha.

Anyways, that's it! Keep checking back for more updates, I'm going to try to post a whopping 2 posts next week!