Yelena Myshko

I've been staying with some friendly people in Christiania for the past 3 days and was very much enjoying this beautiful morning. My only shows today were KEA and POP with plenty of time to interview the designers. Backstage at KEA I bumped into Stine, a make-up artist from MAC whom I met backstage at another show while I was trying to film the chef de cabine (who was trying to leave). Stine is such a lively enthousiastic person and it's so nice to be around her. She intived me to a fashion party at the Jazzhouse later that night. At first I thought I would only go to the Wood Wood party. A friend of mine got two tickets for me, but had other plans himself. I was planning to take Nonni with me, but he got hit by a car and refused to go out. Instead we had pizza and he improvized some electronic music for me. Apparently there was an afterparty going on at POP as well but I thought that I would meet new blogger friends of mine Tine & Eva at Wood Wood so I rushed there.

The Red Pimp cafe (Wood Wood party) was crowded, no wardrobe and smoke everywhere. Though there were some cool people and hot guys, I wasn't feeling like staying there because my friends were still at the Bibi Ghost iPod battle and I didn't know anyone in the crowd. So I called up Stine and found my way to the Jazzhouse. Which was much nicer, much more glamorous with many important people from the fashion industry. Clubkids with painted faces and sexy dressed up girls. After a little while Stine decided to go home because she wasn't feeling very well and I went with her. It was nice to chill out at her place. Stine loves house decorations and has the craziest props from shop windows which she takes after the shop is through with them. I like people who reap the advantages of our throw away culture!

Today was less busy than yesterday but more memorable in terms of shows! Of course the top of the crown was the Henrik Vibskov show. The show was swarmed by unidentified flying objects and cool people. Earlier in the evening I bumped into some animal rights activists at the by Malene Birger show. I was a bit dissapointed that they were gone after the show. It seems to me if you want to make a statement, than don't leave! Some of my fellow bloggers had doubt if the fur in the show was real at all and they were a bit furious about the dog which the activists paraded. The dog was barking and clearly in distress. Really if one wants to make a statement against animal abuse, maybe you should leave the dog in peace at home...

FIN
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDHyX9fYvo
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCw_Z8OE3gs

Minimarket
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20dRgndHNS4
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6pRnkMyR-g
backstage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wknxOXutA70

Karen by Simonsen
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6SzFEz7C1M
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYgZ07kCK4

By Malene Birger
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1WTAZ43dUQ
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgC3JviZKEE
activists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf89w5wCF1k

Gudrun & Gudrun
Aura Dione live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmcL5r0C5pA
show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ72FlbE_pE

Henrik Vibskov
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKtksV6fcs
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-vJPzICnMM

Today was the busiest day of all the Fashion Week with shows from 10am to midnight! Another day standing in rows before the shows sipping on drinks and checking out what the fabulous guests are wearing. I got to sit next to Ivan the Facehunter at the Wackerhouse show and asked him some questions about his visit to Ukraine last year. He said that he appreciated that the people in Kiev put effort into dressing up but he didn't like their style. Ivan spend his time in Kiev hanging around with the people @ X'U, one of our best young designers, whom he walked the catwalk for during the Ukrainean Fashion Week.
At some point in the evening I got a bear which I was carrying around with me to several shows. Apparently I drink too slow for this type of schedule... The highlight of my day were the MONKEY JEANS girls who were giving out these delicious cupcakes!!! And then the after party at Vilsbol de Arce with DATAROCK playing live. That band is so good, they seriously charged up my battery. Which was good because I swapped them for a night of sleep...

Wackerhaus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ify71LdHfc4

These pictures were taken by Tony Newitt, click on the underlying link to see the rest.

day 1:
Jan Taminiau ------------------------------------------ show part 1/part 2, interview
Painted a m u s e ----------------------------------- performance
Mattijs --------------------------------------------------- show, backstage

day 2:
Linda Valkeman ------------------------------------- show
Marloes Blaas --------------------------------------- show, designer interview
Elsien Gringhuis ------------------------------------ show
karssenberg/greidanus --------------------------- show
malousebastiaan ----------------------------------- show
Individuals by AMFI -------------------------------- show part 1/part 2
Quoc Thang ------------------------------------------- show
Mada van Gaans ------------------------------------ pictures soon online
Sacha Golden Heal Award ---------------------- part 1/part 2/part 3/part 4

day 3:
NON by Kim ------------------------------------------ video coming soon
Claes Iversen ----------------------------------------- show part 1/part 2, backstage part 1/part 2/part 3
And Beyond ------------------------------------------ performance part 1/part 2, designer interview
Super Trash ------------------------------------------ show, backstage part 1/part 2/part 3, chef interview

day 4:
END ---------------------------------------------------- show finale, designer interview, backstage
Michael Barnaart van Bergen ----------------- show part 1/part 2, backstage part 1/part 2, chef interview



Some cool blogs where AIFW 2010 was featured:
Team Peter Stigter - The one and only unmissable catwalk photographer in Holland.
Dutch Elle - Busy and somewhat confusing site, features show video's, pictures, guests etc.
Official AIFW Blog - Features all events with a few pictures.
Runway Passport - This one has very nice, long reviews of some shows.
A Shaded View on Fashion - Diane Pernet blog with international coverage by multiple people.



Team Peter Stigter launched a new idea @ AIFW 2010 called Streethearts. The project is basically a real time streetstyle blog with a rating system. Visitors of the fashion week could stick little hearts on their favourite outfit and the winner would get a printed poster at the end of the fashion week. I was also featured on the wall, in the upper right corner. So now you know who I am...