20/04/2011

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 outdated.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.

19/04/2011

Bologna: Day #2

Ah, yes, finally. Pictures from Bologna.The further through the Bologna thing we get, the more I have chosen photos in regards to picture quality and not relevance or representativeness.

 All I really got to see of Italy was seen through the window on the bus. It was very lovely. I'd like to go back.

Our little group of five girls went under the name of DIY Collection. German Charlotte and Hungarian Detty above.

 Stylist Jiv D and choreographer/producer/part of the Esa Live crew Anna

Cosmoprof 2011

Swedish Jacqueline in a very common pose: cigarette in hand.

 Mike Esa, choreographer for the show and creative director of Esa Live Event Managment

 Jiv and Tigi hairdresser Nick Irwin

Charlotte and Tigi hairdresser Akos Bodi

 Skinny bitches just arrived from Milano

Freaky chairs

 We're making funny faces. I tend to be good at that.

 Charlotte and Norwegian Jeanette


 Jeanette above




Make-up artist at Tigi, Amy Barrington


 Jackie's not happy




 Tigi hairdresser Marco Iafrate

Tigi hairdresser Maria Kovacs giving Marco a helping hand. It was Maria who styled my hair on stage in Bologna.

 Nick and Jiv and a willing mannequin

 The ghost of Detty




The dancers, from UK. Apparantly there was a Premier League match at the time and updates came in frequently.

 Rehearsaltime



 Rehearsals moved to venue. I have just woken up. And by the looks of it I have something in my eye.

 Mike Esa

This skinny bitch was no bitch, just skinny. She's Martine Lervik, a fellow Norwegian, working in Milano. Also, it turned out, she was the winner of the Norwegian version of Top Model in 2008. Small world. She has a cute little blog about life in Milan: lostnfound.blogg.no

Mike and CyberBob


Skinny bitches rehearsing. Difficult taking photos of our group rehearsing. Well, I could of course have asked someone else to take some pics with my camera, I just didn't think that far at the time. 

 Videos and little films on big screens accompanying the show


 Dancers doing their bit. I never got to see their routine with the session models with outfits and all. Had to stand ready for finale back stage at that time. Pity.

Looks like blonde German skinny-bitch is getting fed up. Very understandable.