- I feel like this day's gonna be better
than my wedding day, honestly.
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Fashion Week to me is honestly,
I think it's gonna be some craziness,
some avant garde shit.
- I'm just like this girl from Texas
that has never been to a fashion show in my life.
Are they just gonna like, reject me?
We planned three weeks in advance
what we were gonna wear 'cause we were like,
"We gotta get this right, we gotta get this down."
- I bought a dress.
It was $111.00.
It was supposed to be $84.00 but I clicked it
at midnight and the sale went away.
I still bought the dress.
- We can go back to L.A. and be like.
- Actually, wear this color.
- You know what?
(bleep) it, let's just go, let's do it.
- You said (bleep) it.
- I did, I did.
- She doesn't cuss.
- Is this New York?
- Yeah!
(bleep) fashion, here we come!
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- On Friday I wanted to go for a chic, high fashion look
so I slicked back my hair, I put it in a little pony tail.
I wore a choker.
I wore pastel pink pants that were kind of flowy
and then some strappy shoes that were
not the comfiest, but, fashion.
- I decided to wear like, a floor length gown
and it was all black and it had a cape on it.
- [Linday] It was amazing.
- And then I wore these black shoes
that said (bleep) on them.
- Fashion.
- [Lindsay] We're headed to Nicole Miller right now.
Woo!
- I'm hoping that it's like a free, fun place
and that it's not like ritzy and like, meh.
- So we arrived to the show and it's
already feeling super chaotic.
We're in.
I honestly was not expecting like, what it is.
Five people have already like looked me
up and down, critiquing my outfit.
- Yeah.
Two things, one, I saw one of my favorite actresses
from Orange Is The New Black, she's my favorite.
Two, I also saw a rich kid from Beverly Hills
that I've also seen in Beverly Hills.
But that's the update so far.
- So we're waiting in line for the show
for like a good hour.
They finally let us through and the show's
about to start in literally one minute.
- [Jazzmyne] Literally.
- And there's about 50 or so people behind us still
yet they just close the doors in front of them.
- [Jazzmyne] We were the last like,
maybe ten people to get in
and then they were just like, (squeals).
- Can you imagine waiting in line for like
two hours and then not getting in?
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- [Jazzmyne] The first show had a lot of like,
different, really cool patterns.
- It was very colorful, it's very preppy.
It was cute.
- It was alright.
- We did it!
- Woo, first fashion show down.
- Oh yeah.
- I think the biggest thing we both realized
is that like so much goes into it
for literally a five minute show.
- Five minutes.
It's chaos getting there.
You're in traffic, you're trying to find your spot.
And then you sit down, it starts,
it's five minutes long and then you leave
and you go to the next one.
- And that's it.
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We're at the Tadashi Fashion Show.
We just realized that this was gonna be all gowns.
- Yes!
- So this is gonna be cool.
- That guy just took a picture of us!
- I don't know what the (bleep) that was.
- Okay.
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When we got there, we actually had our own seats
so I felt super VIP.
- [Jazzmyne] It also had a brochure of the show
that told you all the looks that were
gonna be coming down the runway.
- We're on the runway.
You know this is gonna be a good show
because the music is slightly scary.
- [Lindsay] When it started, there was this cool,
crazy animation.
- It was kinda trippy.
It was like a tiger hanging on to like an elephant.
It was saying something with like, inter-connectivity
and just like all being sound and on the same level
and just like chillin', it was really cool, I liked it.
- I didn't get any of that from that video.
- Exactly.
- [Lindsay] Then the gowns came out.
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The colors were so vibrant.
All the gowns had just such a beautiful structure to them.
- [Jazzmyne] Like, these looked like just like
little masterpieces walking around.
- (singing) It started raining.
- (singing) Fashion show rain.
But that fashion show?
Tadashi, you know your shit.
- So we just got back from our first two fashion shows.
Nicole Miller was mainly the same ethnicity, which is white.
- The Tadashi show had at least like,
three to four women of color, so that was nice.
Something we were not used to,
all around in both these shows was the fact of just like,
seeing these model's bodies in real life.
- These high, high fashion models,
their job is to sell the clothes and not themselves.
Just become literally a walking mannequin.
- Outside of high fashion I feel like our society
is trying to make these huge strides
into like, curves, blah, blah, blah, love yourself.
And then we go to these high fashion shows
and it's like, woah.
- [Lindsay] This is another club.
- Now we're gonna eat Thai and sushi and go to bed.
- Bye, see you Sunday.
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Good morning and welcome to our second day of fashion shows!
- Woo!
- We're at the BuzzFeed New York office
and we're taking all their snacks.
- I personally was excited for Sunday
because this is my shit.
Street style, weird concepts like, oh!
I decided to throw it back to a little Missy Elliot.
(chirps like a record)
Literally a pink velvet jumpsuit with a hat
and some tennis shoes and I'm not ashamed to say
that I rocked the (bleep) out of that.
- So I decided to stay with the whole
chic trend that I was going for through Fashion Week
and I slicked my hair back but I kept it down.
I had a really light blue blazer
and I had black trousers and then I just wore tennis shoes
'cause it was more like casual street style
and really comfortable.
(camera shutter snaps)
- Today we're going to the Hood By Air Fashion Show
which I'm so excited for because this is like
really cool street style, Rihanna just wore it,
I'm dying if I see her, I can't believe my life right now.
(record scratch)
Yeah we didn't see Rihanna.
What was different about these shows for us
is that we were going behind the scenes
instead of just attending the show.
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We got to meet the Creative Director
that basically explained the hair and make up looks.
They were literally like smearing Vaseline
and it was inspired by like,
kids going and getting like messy in their parent's stuff.
And it was also supposed to be like
a little bit of like weird,
back of the woods shit going on too.
Like the thought process?
Like what is going on the actual looks,
like it is all absolutely crazy.
And all the models are so sweet and nice.
I like just wanna talk, so that's really nice.
- We were just walking down the runway
and Whoopi Goldberg was next to me
and then all of a sudden Jaden Smith walks in
and then it was Naomi Campbell.
- [Jazzmyne] Yeah.
- [Lindsay] And I was like, "Hey girl."
(record scratch)
- You did not say hey to her.
(laughter)
- That didn't happen, that didn't happen.
- We saw Teyana Taylor.
I was in a background of a picture that I didn't know about.
- [Lindsay] So when the show started
it was some trippy, like music,
that sounded like it was in reverse.
- [Jazzmyne] It was great.
- This is gonna be weird.
The fashions in this show were so cool.
I think knowing what we knew from the
Creative Director backstage and what their vision was like
and seeing it go onto the runway
was like an amazing experience
because we could see how the adolescent,
childhood theme transferred into how they were walking.
One guy had like a pout on his face
as if he had just gotten in trouble.
- He was my favorite!
Literally was like.
And I liked it because even though we knew
the background story to everything,
we were still like, what the (bleep) are we watching?
I actually, literally cried and had to make sure
that my eyeliner was not running down my face.
- It got to the point where I was like,
this is beyond fashion, this is an art piece.
I feel so honored to have like gone to this.
It's amazing.
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- [Jazzmyne] So we got in there and it was cool
because it was all just like mix match of everything.
Like nothing was supposed to feel fluid.
Not the gender, not the race, not the hair,
not the colors, everything was supposed to be mixed.
It was sick, it was so cool.
- [Lindsay] When the show started,
there was a performance, like a pre-show.
- [Jazzmyne] What we realized later that this is called
Gypsy Sport and it opened with like
almost a half-time performance.
- Get it?
- Sport.
- Get it?
- Gypsy Sport.
- [Lindsay] Instead of the models walking out to just music,
they had these two presenters that were basically
commenting on the styles as they walked by.
- And there was also this really cool mix of colors.
They were all just colors you wouldn't be like,
"Yeah, those go together,"
and they still kind of all like flowed with each other.
Gypsy Sport was awesome.
It was really cool to see so many people
with like different body types and skin type.
You could connect with any of the models there.
- I'm like so sad it's over.
- I know I can't believe it.
- I thought that I'd be exhausted and want it to end
by the end of the week but I actually had such a good time.
- My biggest take away from New York Fashion Week,
and being like, the people that we are,
not 100% in the industry, is to like,
if you're gonna go, go and be you.
- Everyone that attended the shows had their own style.
There wasn't this common style that we saw everyone wearing.
Like, you are you.
Dress for you.
Dress the best way you can and that's what's accepted.
- We'll be ready for you next year.
Goodbye year two K 17.
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(swoosh and squeak)