Bologna: Day #4

Showtimeday number two but also departure day.

 The scenery around the hotel was stunning but our schedules had been so stuffed I never had time to fully enjoy it. I managed to get a good half hour before breakfast just walking around. The hotel was situated an hour outside Bologna so I never really saw the town itself. In summertime the hotel is also a spa retreat.

I tried to sit by myself outside the venue and catch up on schoolwork, more specifically stratigraphy. It lasted for about, oh, ten minutes, tops.

 This makeup is Amy's work. Incredible! (Amy = make up artist)

 My two favourite Catwalk Collective dresses: The red one's from Felder Felder and the creme one from Bodyamr. The Felder Felder hairdo is also a favourite and I have a representative pic of that from Chicago. Later, later.

Maria Kovacs and unknown skinny-b

Detty

 I haven't got a photo of the finished do of this one, at least not in the Bologna pictures, but I'll check the Chicago file. The finished look is very sleek and minimalistic with a quirky twist to it. It belongs to the Catwalk Collective and has a Costume National dress to go along with it.

 Detty

 Sunny waiting is not at all bad and boring waiting. It's a very enjoyable form of waiting actually.

 Cool boots on Aussie-model. Funnily enough I saw the exact same boots in a shop window here in Trondheim this past week.

German CyberBob-Miriam is very pretty.

 Lovely Amy

 Some boy-model belonging to another hair company sat knitting! Not often you see boys doing that.

 Aaaand we're in character. DIY - collection as we were on stage:

 I love my cut and colour by the way! You can really see the colour in this photo. I told Gen (Itoh, my hairdresser who did my hair originally in London) that I will never be happy with another hairdresser or haircut again. It's true, I have never had a haircut this easy to maintain in everyday life before. All hail Gen Itoh, which unfortunately couldn't make to neither Chicago nor Bologna.

 Dancer Ant takes my picture. A little bird told me that he's one of the best dancers in the world right now.

 Jeanette

 Jacqueline

 Detty

 Charlotte

CyberBob - the finished result. Very cool.

Lovely Maria Kovacs who has a rather strange accent due to the fact that she's Hungarian turned Aussie turned Brit. Out of the Tigi hairdresser team, despite their head quarters lying in London, very few of them are English. Akos Bodi is Hungarian, Marco Iafrate is Italian, Gen Itoh Japanese, Heath Grout who styled me in Chicago is American. Nick Irwin though, is a pure Brit. I think.

 Big Boss Anthony Mascolo with wife and makeup artist Pat Mascolo to the left. He was Jackie's hairdresser. Detty had Nick and Jeanette had Akos.

Immediatly after the show we all went to the airport which was only a ten minute drive away from the venue anyway. No need to wait five hours at Schiphol this time. Home just before midnight and slept loooong the next day, missing out on, eh, some lectures.

Bologna: Day #3

This was Sunday, day of the first show. We had one on Monday as well.

 German model, I think her name was Miriam. She had been given the role as CyberBob among the bobs. You'll see what I mean later. Oh yes, and lunch.

 Jeanette and Charlotte. Make-up done.

 Products! Some of them are now... mine!

Scherri Wilbraham and Anna, both part of the Esa Live crew doing the production.

These skinny bitches belonged to the company who had the show before Tigi. I'm not quite sure whether the dresses are made from paper or, ehm, fabric?

 DIY - the book! With all us DIY collection girls in it. Including me. I have that book now. Very cool.

 Waiting, waiting, waiting. Luckily it was sunny and fuzzy frogs were walking around the premises.

 Somewhat crowded backstage.

 Charlotte and Jacqueline

 My favourite dress and hairstyle from the entire show. The Tigi team did this back to front braid for the Bodyamr fashion show at, ehm, some fasion week. The dress/top (it was a bit short) is from Bodyamr.

 Martine Lervik as the Gothic chic-bob. Relax, it's a wig.

 I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien. Jeanette's just rocking out.

 Detty and Initiation-bob. A little bird told me that Initiation-bob was hellish to work with. Skinny bitch-gossip is always fun.

Here's a little more skinny-b gossip: From what I was told and could observe, models from Scandinavia and Germany are generally nice people who are easy to work with. Also, American and Canadian models do not get along well with eastern European models. In general it would seem like models not from Scandinavia, Germany or perhaps Australia/New Zealand, are skinny Bitches with a capital B. I heard a couple of not-so-nice but very juicy stories about life as a model living with a bunch of other models. I'll take that in an individual post. Let's not overdose on information here. 

 Jiv's fixing Charlotte's lederhosen-outfit

 Makeup artist and photographer Massimo. He was the epitome of everything Italian.

Marco was Charlotte's hairdresser, but Charlotte has the world's longest legs...

Ah, wish I could do this with my hair... Give it ten years, then maybe..'

The carousel skirt belongs to the Clown-bob's outfit. Notice the gorgeous Alexander McQueen dress on skinny-b in the back.

Akos fixing Helmut Newton-bob

Nick Irwin

Marco Iafrate

Maria's ready for showtime!

Back at the hotel, which was lovely though the interior was somewhat.... outdated.

Lovely greens and dancer and dancer's choreographer Chris at the bar.

We got a delicious four-course dinner at the hotel every night! With the greasy food of Chicago freshly implanted in my memory just a week before, this was just heaven. Italians know food! Jackie above, Charlotte below.