Why I decided not to go to Paris Fashion Week.

Nina Ricci F/W 13 via Labert and Associates

I lay awake all night with a disturbing question on my mind. I couldn’t get my thoughts off it, and it wouldn’t let me sleep either. Should I go to Paris Fashion Week ? By myself ? Should I, or should I not ?

Nga won’t be there as she is back in London and has exams this week, but I do have the time. Actually. Uni hasn’t started for me yet. We got several invitations, Nina Ricci, Viktor & Rolf etc. including backstage access. Backstage access is something amazing. You can take photos of the models behind the scenes, maybe take photos with the models if you can find the time, and it gives you the feeling of being right there in the middle of fashion industry. An excitement for people who don’t work in the industry, that can’t be compared to any other feeling.

It definitely is an opportunity, but is it really worth it ? Going to Fashion Week without being sponsored is not a cheap thing to do. In major cities like London, Paris, New York and Milano, living expenses are high. Thus when you come from a place like Berlin, where living expenses are low, it simply will cost you more money than you were going to spend if you just stayed in Berlin. If you plan it as a trip, and have saved money beforehand for your journey, it is a different matter. But if you suddenly get invitations, and are supposed to spend money from the funds you currently have, money you wanted to spend on something else, the questions of whether it is worth is pops up basically by itself.

The fact that Nga won’t be there, and none of my other friends is willing to go with me, I started wondering, ‘Do I really want to go by myself?’. I do know some people in Paris, but it is not the same feeling as going with your close friends. Shouldn’t I be more independent and not rely on my friends for such a matter ? I have travelled by myself before, and it was never as much fun as travelling with my friends. If you compare this whole fashion week affair with a super fancy party, you are invited to. Would you go ? With the opportunity to maybe meet fancy people and with the opportunity to dress yourself fancily. But without much money to spend on the fancy drinks, and without knowing anyone at the party, would you be able to have fun ? I wouldn’t. I most definitely wouldn’t. That’s why I decided not to go to Paris Fashion Week. Paris is a beautiful city, but I don’t want to be there on my own, without much money in my pocket. Shows and backstage, and all excitement aside.

I’m choosing to stay in Munich instead, to spend the time with my friends, and to have fun, far away from the fashion week turmoil and far away from Paris. The good thing about fashion week and paris  are that they don’t vanish. So I might miss out this season, but there will always be a next time. As there will also always be a fancier party to attend. Besides I still can have my share of Paris Fashion Week thanks to style.com and the many other bloggers who are going.

Cheers, 

Julia

Moving into a boyfriends room

Two cinema displays – godknowswhy.

My Macbook Air. His Macbook pro. The mouse pad I got him in Beijing.

This closet solution cost me less than 20€ thanks to IKEA.

My H&M rings and boyfriends custom made diamond ring (which is basically mine now because I wear it and he doesn’t : P)

Here some first impressions. There was a lot to be done, but we are almost finished. Iam still looking for an apartment in Berlin, but until I find one, I guess I will just stay at my boyfriend’s. His room had to undergo major reconstruction for me to want to stay here, because it was a boy’s room before. And Iam a picky girl. It definitely needed some more prettiness, before I was willing to ‘move in’. But a good boyfriend as he is, of course he agreed to changing the interior and to leave me some corners for my stuff. I must say, the room looks so much nicer now. I know moving in with boyfriend’s isn’t always that easy, as both parties sometimes aren’t able to compromise. But as my boyfriend really wanted me to stay with him, he let me do whatever I wanted to do, and did whatever I wanted him to do.
In case you want to know how it looked like before, click here or here. There are more photos of how the room looks like right now in that album. I will show the complete room once iam done with my interior work. (Can’t wait to find an apartment and furnish my own place !) 

I bet some of you are moving right now for uni as well. Make sure your new place is nice and comfortable, it’s so important. Buy a nice vase and flowers every now and then. Only take things with you that you really need to avoid messiness. And make sure you have a nice spacious desk for work. That you don’t just use as shelf space haha. Having a desk to work at will improve your productiveness for sure ! Btw, anyone knowing of a nice apartment in Berlin for me ? 

One day with Jules

photos by Jules Villbrandt

Hey kids. I want to share with you the results of my photo shooting with the lovely Jules for her blog Herz und Blut. I had been to her blog before and just knew that I would love to get my pictures taken by her. You know, if photographers ask me for a photo shooting I don’t always say yes, not because Iam being arrogant, but because sometimes I don’t like their style. I mean it’s not that easy shooting me, believe me, my boyfriend is struggling every single time to fulfill my expectations. But if i know beforehand that i will definitely not be happy with the results because of someone’s personal style, i will not agree to a shooting. But on the other hand when someone asks me, and i see their photos and i love them, i get really excited about getting my photos taken. So that’s why I couldn’t wait to meet Jules and have the shooting with her ! She is such a warm and bubbly and gorgeous person, I liked her the very minute I met her. I didn’t feel awkward at all. Jules loves photography so please check out her portfolio, share some love on Facebook by giving it a like and check out her blog for more impressions of me. There is also an interview, in German though.

I also got to meet Linda from Looks Like Berlin on that occasion, who is a super cool girl with a unique style. She got some photos taken by Jules as well. If you are a blogger and your friend is a photographer that definitely needs to be made advantage of ! I had a great time with the two girls and am glad that I didn’t cancel the shooting. Because actually i went to a party the night before and was really really not eager to get up early.

After our shooting Jules offered to accompany me to the THU THU sample sale on Torstrasse. I was so looking forward to it, because i absolutely love that brand ! Iam not really a very colourful person, but i love highlights in my wardrobe, and THU THU designs are absolutely gorgeous. The designer is a Vietnamese girl from Germany, based in London and she seemed to be really nice. Even though I couldn’t afford anything, Iam still happy enough that I could try them on.

confronting snow

I had a shooting with my mate Jens (www.JensMoire.com) for one of his projects last week. We filmed near a forest, when everything was snow covered. It was so cold yet so beautiful at the same time ! Jens girlfriend brought a real fur coat and her greatgrandmothers earrings for me to wear, which were so beautiful ! And girls, real fur really does keep you warmer than fake fur. Just sayin.