Fashionieceta Freekend: 7

I can't believe it has already been seven weeks here in the Big Apple. It's flown by, and been the time of my life. Friday was an easy day at work with Fashionaunta gone, as well as the VP of Marketing out. Jess in PR arranged a meeting with an employee from Lily O'Briens chocolate. The meeting was to see our options when it came to possible gifting for future Iconix corporate gifting, or Iconix brand gifting. The woman who came to meet with us came off to be respectably professional and genuinely good at what she does. The chocolate is imported from Ireland, but is Belgian chocolate. Additionally, she brought tons of chocolate for us to try and take for ourselves once the meeting was over. She definitely scored bonus points with me.

Later in the day, Abby had a meeting via phone call with a stylist for Boys Like Girls who are going to be sponsored by Op. Cory Cruton and I sat in on the call. The stylist was making a fuss about how the pictures of the clothes that Abby sent were not opening and that she needed to see them to figure out what possibilities there would be to style each artist. Abby sent the twelve pictures a week prior to this phone call. There was talk about changing the clothing up by maybe bedazzling shirts and other Op merchandise. In Pebble Beach, the boys in the band wore clothes from the Op girl's line. They're smaller, and that's fine, but Abby mentioned that she wanted them to wear clothing from the men's line because we need to advertise that, and she doesn't want people to mention cross dressing. The stylist had mentioned that she had also worked with Kings of Leon. Abby is a huge fan and let's face it, even with Coco there, everyone wants a little bit of dirt behind every group, celebrity, etc. According to this stylist who has been an insider before, the actual members of Kings of Leon are as sweet as can be, sexy, and down to Earth, but the people surrounding them are very rude. Now, here's where it gets sketchy. The boys have a team that basically helps them party and pimp it, and that team then clears the party group out, and then follows by bringing their girlfriends to them. Sad news, but the truth always comes out, doesn't it? The Nashville-based stylist also mentioned how cool her office is and what it overlooks several times, which seemed entirely irrelevant to the whole point of the conversation.

Friday night I spent the night with Tessa at the Fordham dorms. After a night of scarce sleep, I had to wake up at 8 in order to catch an 8:25a.m. train back to Long Island, so I could give my cousin some moral support in her soccer game. On the train, I faded out until I got a call from my uncle asking if I had actually been on the train that I was supposed to have been on. I had fallen asleep and missed my stop. In result, my uncle had to come pick me up in the next town over. Yikes. However, the soccer game was enjoyable and my cousin's team won about 5-0. The game had been at a local high school, and I have never seen a better teepeeing job in my life. The picture displayed is what the entire perimeter of the school looked like. After the game, I hopped in the car, went home, and took a 2-3 hour nap. After my nap, it was time to head back to the city.

After a night in Soho, I hung around the city for most of Sunday, and headed back to the island Sunday night due to Yom Kippur. I was wiped out, falling asleep before 9p.m., and sleeping past 10a.m. At two, it was time to go somewhere that I hadn't been in a while; Temple. I hadn't eaten all day due to fasting for the holiday, and I'm truly sorry to say that Temple wasn't the first place I wanted to be. The only upside to going to Temple was that Fashionaunta let me borrow super cute Fendi wedges. We broke our fast at a beautiful home, with a very humble family. The house for the family of three was simply outrageous, and the food was delicious.

The night ended with the newest episode of Gossip Girl. WHAT was Scott, the son of Rufus and Lily THINKING? I was livid.

Until next time.

XXO- Fashionieceta.

Fashionieceta Facebook Friends

I say this in the least narcissistic way possible, but every day, I get at least two friend requests on Facebook. The notification is sent to my phone, and unless I absolutely know the person who requested, I leave it be. Sometimes, there are random people who have friends in common, and sometimes those who don't. Sometimes, the people have weird or abstract names, and sometimes they're normal. Yesterday, I got a friend request from Kevin Cruton. I didn't think anything of it. An hour later, I got a message from Kevin Cruton that read "hi. i'm kevin cruton. Want to be friends?" I laughed, told a friend about it, and moved on with my life. A few hours later, Sing mentioned that she had just gotten a friend request from Kevin Cruton. Okay, now it was interesting. I logged onto my computer and looked at the Cruton kid's page. His pages were Bongo, Op, Cobra Starship, and Starter. Hmm, OBVIOUSLY this was someone who had some kind of relation to Iconix. Cruton had the office laughing for a little while, and this was truly putting a little spice into the day. It seemed as though no one else in the office, excluding Sing, was really phased by this Kevin Cruton kid. Cory was his friend, and so was Justine aka MeMe. I was carrying on to Coco about it and told him to go look at this Cruton guy's page. Coco excused me by saying he couldn't right then and that he had something to do. So I went back to the Op closet I have been working on for the past few days. Eventually, Coco came to the closet and asked if I needed any help because he didn't have anything to do. He then mentioned Kevin Cruton and had this shit grin that was unmistakable. "Have you updated Fashionieceta? I think I'll go catch up on my reading," he said as he put his water cup to his mouth and started to walk away. "You do that," I responded. We both started laughing to the point where we were red in the face. We had Sing going for a while longer until Coco finally came out with the truth. I have to give Coco Cruton props. Well done my friend, well done.

Another fun fact from here at Iconix is that I was finally nicknamed. There are a handful of people who have their nicknames in the office, and MeMe and Ev decided that I needed one. My new name is "iLL nah nah". At first, I wanted to spell it "iLL na na". That was until I looked at the definition on Urban Dictionary. Yikes. However, with an 'h' at the end, it completely changes the meaning. www.urbandictionary.com ---> Feel free to look up the difference of the definitions yourselves.

Fashionaunta has fled to Los Angeles once again to shoot two campaigns. One for Charisma with a guy, a hottie that everyone in the "City" knows and loves, and London Fog with talent that can't be named quite yet. There is no doubt that the new ads will come out beautifully and brilliantly.

Must get back to cleaning the Op closet! Who knows what else today shall bring.

Until next time.

XXO- Fashionieceta.

Fatigued Fashionieceta

President Obama is in town this week, so Fashionaunta and I arrived to work much later than usual. Igor, our very passionate bus driver, was stuck in traffic and by the look on his face, it seemed to be quite devastating. For me, it fit into my new narcoleptic schedule brilliantly, because I received a few extra minutes to sleep on our morning bus ride. My day yesterday was spent tabbing our company's magazine ads for Abby, and checking to see if all of the invoices were in each brand's section of the Fall 2009 folder. Today, I'll be filing them in excel worksheets to figure out percentages. A little different than RSVP voicemail's and seating arrangement calls.

When lunch time came, I walked down to Cafe Duke. I browsed around, taking in the delicious smell of everything that was cooking, or had just been cooked. At that point, I felt so hungry that I could have gotten a clear to-go box and stuffed everything from the buffet in there. But then, I thought about how they had opened a new Baja Fresh directly across the street from the office, and considered going there. Last week, Baja Fresh opened. I was so excited that I went and ate it for lunch three days in a row. Baja is simply just THAT GOOD. I walked out of Cafe Duke and into Baja Fresh. Then I looked back to Cafe Duke. I was really putting myself in what I guess people would call "a pickle". I walked back and forth twice, until I finally decided to get a salad of my creation from Cafe Duke. It wasn't that good. I'm also thrilled that I went through all of that confusion and stress from indecisiveness only to find out that there was a spectacular lunch on the 4th floor. Although, I did enjoy my lunch time with Sing and Coco very much.

When we returned to the office, immediately at 2 there was a "Back to School" meeting, hosted by Kenneth, the VP of Marketing. We had a slide show presented to us of the comparisons of spending for 'Back to School' supplies in 2008-2009. We looked at the different commercials and techniques of advertising produced by different stores such as; Target, Walmart, Kohl's, and Sears. The meeting was definitely informative and educational, but I felt myself fading after sitting in the same spot for over an hour.

We wrapped, and then it was time for me to go start organizing and cleaning up the disaster that had become of what we call our 'Op Closet'. I worked on that and thankfully made visible progress, so today it will be a little easier, but time consuming. On the way home, I fell asleep again, because I seem to catch every moment of sleep that I can lately. 90210 was amazing as always, and Melrose Place put me to sleep. I don't remember much after that.

Until next time.

XXO- Fashionieceta.