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The Spring/Summer 2011 Show
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| The Corneliani Showroom |
Well...finally started my fashion classes in Italian on Monday. Technically it's just an intensive workshop and my classes start on Nov. 8 but we'll just go ahead and pretend. Damnnnnn it's hard listening to lecture in a different language. The teachers expect me to understand everything they're saying but I don't know all the vocabulary they're using...YET he he. On the other hand, the students are super helpful and encouraging and a few of them can speak a little English; but, for the most part it's all Italian...it's nice finally having to force myself to speak Italian because I've been hanging out with International students who all speak perfect English and are struggling with Italian in the same way. Right when we got to class the teacher immediately started explaining the project we'll be working on for the next two weeks. We're doing this project where we makeup our own fashion house and then create outfits out of materials like paper, plastic, and tape--accordingly! ha feels so project runway-esque it's glorious. Welcome to the House of Toyland. I'm sure I'll have some great pics to follow:) Also took a lil field trip to another showroom today. It was the Corneliani showroom and it was absolutely breathtaking. It's two-stories with 4 or 5 different rooms of clothes, shoes, and accessories for men. Their suits are beautiful and their sartorial collection is entirely handmade. They are super innovative with their fabrics and used special fibers to give their jackets gorgeous effects. This one jacket in particular had this gorgeous sheen to it almost like a sparkle but more subtle. When I asked the showroom manager what they used she said Jersey! Ha a jersey knit...who would've thought;) After the tour and explanation of the companies history (It started in the 50's and now there's 100 mono-brand stores and 17 stores they sell to--the founder has 2 sons that both had 2 sons that work for the company now! ha all boys) we watched the Spring/Summer 2011 fashion show which was held in this amazing garden at the Technology Museum in Milan. The models were effing gorgeous ah ha love those men's collections. After the showroom visit Larra and I took a trek around the city...first looking for a hair salon (passing by the most beautiful buildings from the 1600's and stores upon stores of gorgeous designer furniture--including Fendi Casa) After that, we had written directions from the public transportation website that told us to go to Porta Genova and then walk to our next destination which was Pisotti(where we could purchase materials for our project.) The directions had us walk all the way up one street and then down the canal(until we had reached where we had jus come from) and then continue walking down the canal for 15 more minutes. All and all the trek took us around 45 minutes...then we figured out we could walk to our house in about ten minutes! ha ha ohhhhh well...u think u know ur way around a city and then BAM kicked back into reality. At least we found the Italian version of Michaels and got started on our clothes:) When we got home from it all we got some GREAT news...time to start looking for a new place to live...the guy we rent from who also lives here wants to move in with his gf. ahhhhh i do not wanna haveta go through this again but ohhh well. hopefully we find some place cheaper so i can travel more. time to go to the post office and try to get them to send my package back to my grandma so i don't have to pay 100 euro to receive her gift...ha ha yeah plz nobody send me any xmas presents...it may not cost too much for ur shipping but my taxes are INSANE. well baci e abbracci <3 next post to come after i find out what a milanese halloween is like;)
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