OMG...NO WILL BELIEVE WHO I MET TODAY!!!

ok so it was like a week and 1/2 ago...I'm just a really bad blogger with lots of saved drafts...anyways

Viktor and Rolf...as in the Dutch Designers...I know sooooooo exciting right? I went to their exhibition at the Barbican for my European Cultural History class on Friday and my roommate notices in the small print on the back of the pamphlet that it said they were going to be at the Barbican speaking the weekend of London Fashion Week...aka the next day! We asked about tickets and it was sold out, but they said if we came early we could check for any tickets that were returned. There were 8 so we bought 4 and called 2 of our friends and made them jump on the tube and come. It was so AMAZING! The beginning was kind of boring. All these people read papers they had wrote on them. One guy was relating their work to Plato...I just kept looking at Viktor and Rolf and kept wondering what was going through their heads...I'm pretty sure they were not thinking about Plato when they designed that dress. After intermission it was the interview with Viktor and Rolf...and you didn't have to sit in your assigned seat...meaning I got to sit in the third row and listen to them at eye level...it was amazing. Did you know that their boutique in the Netherlands in completely upside down? Literally the ceiling is the floor...the archways have cushions on them to make them benches. It is great! Afterward they were so kind and signed every one's programs. They signed my sketch book and my program. They were getting ready to leave and we asked for a picture with them. Their PR agent said no they needed to leave to catch their plane...and Viktor (well I think it was Viktor...they do everything together...they sign their name Viktor and Rolf not just one or the other...) leans over and says "Ve can do one picture." So we all jumped in and did the runway face they always do at the end of all their shows. It was great. I think they thought we where stalking them b/c we kept walking into them after we got off the elevator and then followed them out the front doors...and then I just had to take one more picture...so I have them getting in the car and then we waved frantically as they sped off to the airport. What a day. It was more like what a weekend.

The night before we went to an art exhibition where my friend Jin and I's work was displayed in a Gallery in the east end aka the art side of town. So now I've been published on a wall in London and had my photo with 2 famous designers! The exhibition was called Cinderella flash. We tried on really expensive dresses and took pictures. The idea is to take the photo ourselves with it over our face so there is a flash over our face. No one knows who it is, all they see is a beautiful gown on a beautiful, ordinary, everyday girl. It was really fun to shoot. A little intense and scary but we got through it! :)

So I think that catches everyone one up on all the exciting events that have happened. Oh I almost forgot. Jita and I went to some of the open houses in Westminster last week like the Banquet Room. On the way home we were having a photo shoot trying to find the pose that makes our legs look longest (yes we are just cool like that). We were posing by this statue by a Parliament building. There was a two foot wall edging this beautiful lawn...I thought it needed some life on if...it looked lonely. So I told Jita to jump over onto it and I would take her picture. So she did and then she runs back and says your turn! SO naturally I jump over and roll on it. All of a sudden we look up and the security guards are running over to us so I jump up and back over. They go back to their little security box and we are looking at the pics and they are all blurry so Jita says you have to do it again! So I scope it out and when they are looking the other direction I do it again. By now we have a crowd that are dying laughing, and know we are not suppose to be doing this. We are laughing really hard by now and I'm rolling around when all of a sudden Jita goes "RUN!"...we didn't see the guards at the other end...oops! They chased us down the street but we lost them and I don't think I have ever laughed that hard in my life. It was great...maybe a little illegal, but that perfect green grass needed some love. :) So that is all my adventures for now. I'm off to bed. Night! Love you all.

<3 KL

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