Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Rachel So and you're listening to Climbing
Speaker 1: in Heels for your weekly dose of glamour, inspiration and
Speaker 1: of course fun. This week, I am reporting to you
Speaker 1: live from the one and only New York Fashion Week.
Speaker 1: The week is definitely not over yet, and we've already
Speaker 1: been through like two different snowstorms and of course tons
Speaker 1: of events.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't recommend.
Speaker 1: Wearing sheer fabric gowns and eiden sheels in a blizzard.
Speaker 2: But you know, here we are.
Speaker 1: I am who I am. I asked my followers to
Speaker 1: submit some fashion week questions, so I'm going to answer
Speaker 1: as many as I can.
Speaker 2: Let's jump right into it. Okay, what time are shows
Speaker 2: typically am? PM? And how long do they last?
Speaker 1: It used to be when I started Mark Jacob show
Speaker 1: is like a night show and it would be like
Speaker 1: eight or nine, or it would be called for eight
Speaker 1: and would start at nine and then he started exactly
Speaker 1: on time to the minute, and if you did not
Speaker 1: get there, you missed the show.
Speaker 2: But the earliest show is.
Speaker 1: Typically nine am or ten am. The lash I remember
Speaker 1: being nine am was the row. And you have to
Speaker 1: be a show that everyone wants to see. To do
Speaker 1: it at nine am during fashion week because a lot
Speaker 1: of people end up sleeping through it if they had
Speaker 1: a rough night the night before. And the shows themselves
Speaker 1: are so short. It's like eight minutes to fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: depending on the number of looks, but really really short.
Speaker 1: And I always say it's kind of like doing a
Speaker 1: wedding where you just work so hard on this event
Speaker 1: and then it's literally over in ten minutes.
Speaker 2: It's bizarre.
Speaker 1: Actually, Okay, what are my thoughts on the Calvin Klein collection.
Speaker 1: I think it's super and very old school Calvin, Like
Speaker 1: it kind of feels like not that much time has passed,
Speaker 1: but it feels very Calvin Klein Calvin. So for those
Speaker 1: of you that are fashion people and kind of know
Speaker 1: that Calvin himself has not designed directly for Calvin in many,
Speaker 1: many years, probably at least probably fifteen years. I would
Speaker 1: think Francisco Costa was there for eight years, and then
Speaker 1: Ralph Simmons briefly, and now there's a new designer there
Speaker 1: who I think did a really beautiful collection, honestly, very
Speaker 1: wearable and very true to Calvin. And I think the
Speaker 1: way you know that is you see that you know
Speaker 1: the old school muses. We're all there, like Christy Turlington
Speaker 1: and Kate Moss. I mean, it was a really big deal.
Speaker 1: Aaron Wasson was there, and I thought it was really
Speaker 1: chic and really cool. I mean, I really liked it,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a big.
Speaker 2: Future there for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, which do you like better? New York Fashion Week
Speaker 1: or Paris Fashion Week? I mean, you know, I hate
Speaker 1: saying it because I.
Speaker 2: Am a true New Yorker at the core.
Speaker 1: However, I'm pretty sure nothing can really compete with Paris
Speaker 1: Fashion Week, and I think anyone would probably tell you that,
Speaker 1: whether it's ready to wear or couture. And I think
Speaker 1: even just if you base it on, like walking out
Speaker 1: of a show in the Tuilery Garden, it's like your
Speaker 1: whole you just gasp for air. And as many times
Speaker 1: as I've been to Paris for fashion Week, it's never
Speaker 1: it never gets old.
Speaker 2: I mean it's just magical.
Speaker 1: I just breathe differently in Paris. Okay, what are your
Speaker 1: must visit places during fashion Week?
Speaker 2: You know it's funny. I don't get a lot of free.
Speaker 1: Time in between shows and events and meetings during fashion week,
Speaker 1: so I don't get to do a lot of my
Speaker 1: Like if I came to New York for a week
Speaker 1: for work that wasn't Fashion Week, all the places I
Speaker 1: would go, But this place that I just went to
Speaker 1: was so good, called the Corner Store. It felt like
Speaker 1: true American meets like French bistro, like Dover Soul and
Speaker 1: Spina Charta choked it, but I loved the decor. I
Speaker 1: loved the vibe so much. I love the Corner Store.
Speaker 1: I will, I think, go to sant Ambrose.
Speaker 2: Tonight.
Speaker 1: I went to the Crane Club, which was incredibly chic.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait.
Speaker 2: To go back there.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like if I was designed designing my
Speaker 1: home as like a nightclub supper club, it would look
Speaker 1: like the Crane Club, which was super cool. I'm really
Speaker 1: loving the trend right now in membership clubs that are
Speaker 1: very like feel old school New York supper club. They're
Speaker 1: very velvety and dark, with like disco ball fixtures and
Speaker 1: lots of brass hardware on everything, which I love. It
Speaker 1: feels very like tom Ford cellar on Era meets Halston.
Speaker 2: It's giving me that.
Speaker 1: Five what stores do I like to go to? God,
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm uptown, Burgdorfs all the way I
Speaker 1: love vintage stores. What goes around comes around Resurrection New
Speaker 1: York Vintage. But they just recently had the vintage show
Speaker 1: that I missed here, which is my favorite.
Speaker 2: What else do I love to do here? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have so many favorites in New York. I feel
Speaker 2: so happy here.
Speaker 1: Like if I was here longer, I would go to
Speaker 1: Carbone for sure, via Coroda Polo Bar one of my
Speaker 1: absolute favorites. I hope I go before I leave New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I could go on for days.
Speaker 2: Okay? What hair tool do I use for my waves? Honestly?
Speaker 2: I use all T three hair tools.
Speaker 1: I use the minis when I travel and the full
Speaker 1: size when I'm at home. But I always bring my wand,
Speaker 1: which has a one inch a one and a half
Speaker 1: inch barrel, because I don't wash it that much during
Speaker 1: fashion week, so and then it styles better anyway, and
Speaker 1: especially because it's been snowing on and off. Okay, how
Speaker 1: do you plan your outfits for fashion week?
Speaker 2: That's an interesting question.
Speaker 1: It's overwhelming, honestly, because the shows that I go to
Speaker 1: are mostly my friends' shows, and they send me clothes
Speaker 1: to where and they send like a different assortment of
Speaker 1: looks for me to pick from before I leave LA,
Speaker 1: and then the looks are here when I get here,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they fit and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're
Speaker 1: meant for a six foot model, and you know, I
Speaker 1: need like a foot taken off the bottom, even with
Speaker 1: my eight inch heels. But then I basically quickly try
Speaker 1: everything on before the show if I have time the
Speaker 1: night before, and if not, then just before the show
Speaker 1: and I throw it on and just figure out how
Speaker 1: to make it work.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I pin it, where get clampet all the things.
Speaker 1: But I would just say, like I plan as best
Speaker 1: I can, but I always have to bring suitcases with
Speaker 1: my own stuff because if the outfit doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: then I always need to have my own clothes just
Speaker 1: in case. And also like if I go to dinner
Speaker 1: with friends after the show, sometimes I want to come
Speaker 1: home and change into something on my own. I would
Speaker 1: say that my staples I always bring. I bring an
Speaker 1: assortment of black you know, bell bottom flared pants in
Speaker 1: suede and leather, in denim in.
Speaker 2: Just like a lightweight wool tux fabric.
Speaker 1: Everything, just every kind of black pant and like a
Speaker 1: wide like denim trouser something like that that I could
Speaker 1: throw on with everything, a myriad of faux furs, vintage furs,
Speaker 1: things like that, lots of like mariboo, just to kind
Speaker 1: of throw on evening looks and sweaters, some good sweaters
Speaker 1: and pieces and great jackets because New York Fashion Week
Speaker 1: is all about the coat. It's just about the coat,
Speaker 1: the coat, the coat, the coat. This is a funny question,
Speaker 1: and the question I get asked probably once a day, actually,
Speaker 1: how are you able to walk in such high heels?
Speaker 2: Do you know? It's funny.
Speaker 1: I actually don't find it challenging, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to jinx it, but I have only really eaten it
Speaker 1: fully maybe once or twice where I like and by
Speaker 1: the way, it was very recently and I actually sprained
Speaker 1: my ankle and it's still not totally healed, probably because
Speaker 1: I continue to wear really high heels. But I find
Speaker 1: that if I wear a platform, I can stay in
Speaker 1: them for ten fourteen hours at a time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't find it hard. It's actually harder for me
Speaker 1: to wear flats. I kind of wobble in flats and
Speaker 1: forget ski boots.
Speaker 2: That's like really challenging for me.
Speaker 1: I packed Valentino shoes, all my Valentino Plat platforms in
Speaker 1: different colors and fabrics, patent and leather, shiny and Matt
Speaker 1: also Alayah, I have these great like lug soul Alayah
Speaker 1: kind of shoeties. I would say it's like an ankle
Speaker 1: boot shoe.
Speaker 2: What else, uh right? I think that's it.
Speaker 1: Elias and Valentino's basically and liubatants. They go with me
Speaker 1: everywhere my very very high black pump. What trends are
Speaker 1: you seeing at New York Fashion Week? And what trends
Speaker 1: do you expect to see on the oscar red carpet? Honestly,
Speaker 1: the biggest trend at New York Fashion Week is luxury
Speaker 1: is really like this whole quiet luxury trend is really
Speaker 1: hitting hard because I think people have come off of
Speaker 1: COVID in pajamas. Then they really wanted to get out
Speaker 1: of pajamas into gowns or for me anyway, and now
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to find that great middle ground.
Speaker 1: I also think people are going back to work in
Speaker 1: an office and they want to look chic and polished
Speaker 1: but also be comfortable because I think the one thing
Speaker 1: that COVID taught us was how we can be comfortable
Speaker 1: and how we deserve to be comfortable every day when
Speaker 1: we're working.
Speaker 2: But what I am seeing is.
Speaker 1: This, like lots of layered, very layered, luxurious cashmeres and
Speaker 1: wools and really soft textured fabrics in jewel tones, which
Speaker 1: I always love to see this time of year, and
Speaker 1: layered you know, like beautiful wine colors. And I thought
Speaker 1: I would see more of the pantone color of this,
Speaker 1: that sort of like Moco Ltte color, But I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that.
Speaker 2: I mean I have, but not more than usual. And
Speaker 2: what else I mean? I have seen some.
Speaker 1: Evening incorporated into the luxury in like nude sequence and like,
Speaker 1: but I've seen them with like flats, you know, a
Speaker 1: gown with flats.
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a lot of like nude sequence with layers,
Speaker 1: lot just lots of layers. And lounge dressing still like
Speaker 1: pajama dressing, which I feel like everyone will be happy about.
Speaker 1: But like pajamas, like silk pajamas with like a blazer
Speaker 1: over it and then belted with boots. And I love that,
Speaker 1: I really feel that, and I think it's very wearable
Speaker 1: and easy and comfortable.
Speaker 2: What do I expect to see on the.
Speaker 1: Oscar red carpet a lot of Scaparelli, a lot of
Speaker 1: VERSACEI a lot of sculpted gowns with a lot of
Speaker 1: work in them.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to see.
Speaker 1: I think the Scaparelli sort of trend in heavily designed,
Speaker 1: heavily sculpted gowns I think is going to be here
Speaker 1: a lot. I think we're still going to see some
Speaker 1: of the nude transparency. I think that's just here to stay.
Speaker 1: I hope it's done in a tasteful way. At the Oscars,
Speaker 1: I think endless beating and endless beating and like crystals
Speaker 1: and things like that. Yeah, I think we'll see that.
Speaker 1: I think we'll see a lot of this sort of
Speaker 1: blushy nude, soft metallics.
Speaker 2: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: We'll see maybe we'll see a lot of black this
Speaker 1: year because of the wildfires and stuff like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know that so many people are going to want
Speaker 1: to come out like so loud and flashy, So we'll
Speaker 1: see if that affects. It didn't really affect it for Grammys,
Speaker 1: so maybe not. I think there's a huge trend in
Speaker 1: being okay to repeat wear something right. I think case
Speaker 1: in point, Kate Blanchette keeps re wearing things that she's worn.
Speaker 1: And what's so great about Kate Blanchett is she's like
Speaker 1: repeating and remaking things that she herself has actually worn,
Speaker 1: which is really amazing, like from Armani to Goutier, And
Speaker 1: I love that. I mean, she's, you know, can't touch
Speaker 1: Kate Blanchett. So I love that for her, And that's
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Stewart styles her, so they collaborate on that. But
Speaker 1: I think I've also seen a lot of vintage.
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of vintage.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of the models wearing vintage, you know,
Speaker 1: like the Hayley Beebers and Kendall Jenner's like I've seen
Speaker 1: I've seen them wearing amazing like vintage Guliano vintage, your
Speaker 1: vintage for sauce. I've seen a lot of them are
Speaker 1: coming from this amazing resource called tab Vintage. Tab Vintage
Speaker 1: takes really amazing pieces from like late nineties, early two thousands,
Speaker 1: which is why I think it's resonating so much with
Speaker 1: those girls. Anything from like a Sheik slip dress that
Speaker 1: Kate Moss wore, you know, on the carpet on the runway,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. And also I've loved to see sort
Speaker 1: of Donnatella having a lot of people wear like Di
Speaker 1: Gianni Versaci from the archives, which you know, I actually remember,
Speaker 1: which was so cool.
Speaker 2: But I think wearing vintage versus repurposing.
Speaker 1: I think vintage you're pulling from different resources like shrimped, Shrimpton, cature,
Speaker 1: tab vintage. I mean, the list goes on. I mean
Speaker 1: I get a lot from first DIBs, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I think repurposing. I think for
Speaker 1: a celebrity to come out and say I'm wearing this
Speaker 1: again that I wore twenty years ago or ten years
Speaker 1: ago is really making a statement and I think it's
Speaker 1: really cool. I think it's really cool because I think
Speaker 1: there for so long it was like you could not
Speaker 1: be seen in the same even jacket that you wearing,
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's insane, Like how are these
Speaker 1: people supposed to like have a jacket or a bag.
Speaker 1: Can they not be photographed in the same bag or jacket?
Speaker 1: It seems so ridiculous to me. Okay, what is my
Speaker 1: go to coffee order? And moisturizes are routine? Moisturize a routine. Okay,
Speaker 1: so coffee. I don't drink coffee because I suffer from
Speaker 1: terrible acid reflex, And as much as I want to
Speaker 1: drink coffee, especially during fashion week, my reflex really acts
Speaker 1: up just because I'm not sleeping as much, drinking a
Speaker 1: lot of wine, drinking too much caffeine, and doing all
Speaker 1: the things you're not supposed to do. My moisturizing routine,
Speaker 1: so my skin in New York is like I feel
Speaker 1: like a lizard. I actually feel like a lizard. I
Speaker 1: actually apply facial oil during the day. It's crazy, but
Speaker 1: my skincare here really is comprised of various products from
Speaker 1: Barbara Storm and You Beauty, especially when it comes to hydration,
Speaker 1: and I use everything from Barbara's serums like the hyerlonic acid,
Speaker 1: the Niceinamide, the glow Drops Glow Serum, calming serum. I
Speaker 1: really love them. They're they're really game changing. I just
Speaker 1: ran out of my night serum and I kind of
Speaker 1: panic last night. I love her super rich face cream
Speaker 1: and I cream, and I also use a ton.
Speaker 2: Of You Beauty.
Speaker 1: I use the Bioactive Barrier at night, which I love
Speaker 1: because you wake up hydrated. I love her eye return
Speaker 1: I love arms Sculpt. I love her intensive face oil,
Speaker 1: which I literally like, wake up in the morning and
Speaker 1: pat it all over my face and literally, by the
Speaker 1: time I go to put makeup on, I'm still hydrated,
Speaker 1: but it's absorbed.
Speaker 2: I love it. It's really good.
Speaker 1: It's an intensive face oil and I just can't get
Speaker 1: enough of it. And she makes great minis for travel,
Speaker 1: which is like game changer.
Speaker 2: Game changer. I also for those of you that love
Speaker 2: a very.
Speaker 1: Hydrating moisturizer, the You Beauty super Hydrator, It's sort of
Speaker 1: like I honestly can't get enough of it.
Speaker 2: It is it is that good.
Speaker 1: It is that good, and she does it intinted as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: what did I miss? What is your favorite New York
Speaker 1: snack or food? I mean, I try to keep a
Speaker 1: protein bar or something in my bag at all times.
Speaker 1: I like different ones. I like mash bars. I like
Speaker 1: mash bars, I like Nugo.
Speaker 2: It depends. I don't like ones that are super dense
Speaker 2: and rich.
Speaker 1: I fend them a little nausea honestly, but Trail Mix
Speaker 1: is always a good thing to have in your bag.
Speaker 2: What else? What else?
Speaker 1: What has been your favorite New York fashion show to date.
Speaker 1: Oh God, in the history of fashion, I mean definitely
Speaker 1: New York. I would say Tom Ford and Mark Jacobs
Speaker 1: have always been and Michael course are always really really
Speaker 1: fun shows. Oscar de la Rena, I would have to say,
Speaker 1: the Oscar de Lorenta show that I went to shortly
Speaker 1: before he passed was one of the most beautiful shows.
Speaker 1: And I went there and I left my studio because
Speaker 1: I was showing the next day, and I left my
Speaker 1: studio with a room full of I was casting all
Speaker 1: the models, doing all these fittings, and I ran out
Speaker 1: took a car to his show because I knew and
Speaker 1: my soul it might be his last one. And it
Speaker 1: was just thank god I did, because I would have
Speaker 1: regretted it forever. And it was one of the most
Speaker 1: beautiful shows. And I can't remember the year, but Oscar
Speaker 1: shows during New York Fashion Week was like going to
Speaker 1: the opera. It was just so beautiful and so elegant,
Speaker 1: and it just it was always a true New York moment.
Speaker 1: And then this sort of contrast to a Mark Jacobs
Speaker 1: show from an Oscar show was always really special.
Speaker 2: But I mean I miss it.
Speaker 1: I miss tom Ford showing here, I miss Mark closing
Speaker 1: the fashion Week. You know, I miss Oscars shows. I
Speaker 1: miss you know I do. I miss Ralph Laurence shows.
Speaker 1: So I miss a lot of my favorites. I really do.
Speaker 1: I think it's all over the place now in terms
Speaker 1: of how people show and when they decide to show,
Speaker 1: which I think is hard for people that travel.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I have too many favorites, too many favorites.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: I just remembered one that Mark did that felt very seventies,
Speaker 1: Miss Sony Vibe Like. It definitely felt very Italian influence,
Speaker 1: with like the hair, the makeup, the sort of metallic
Speaker 1: sort of Lyrix knits and stuff. And I remember that
Speaker 1: show so well at the Park Avenue Armory.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me for this New
Speaker 1: York Fashion Week episode of the pod. I have a
Speaker 1: few more shows and events left to attend, so I
Speaker 1: can answer more of your questions on my social and
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