Macy's Fashion Show! (Pittsburgh Fashion Week)

OH HEY GUYS.
Wednesday night, I had the Macy's Fall Fashions show which was held in the Macy's in downtown Pittsburgh. There were several segments featuring looks from Macy's lines then they featured looks by all of the student designers presenting in Saturday's show. My look was written about in a few blogs (hehe!) and here are some pictures from the show! They had each of the designers walk up with their looks and answer one or two questions. I was shaking and so nervous but I lived! I have very little time to blog this week but I wanted to share the pictures with all of you. Stay tuned for Saturday's Back to Back Student Show which I will be presenting in!!

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xx Caitlyn

Pittsburgh Fashion Week Day 1!

Hello my darlings! So the first day of Pittsburgh Fashion Week has officially come to an end and Colin and I are POOPED. We woke up at finally left the dorms around 1:00 and took a lovely stroll to get us some Starbs. After stumbling over my order about three times (I really needed that coffee), we wandered down to Macy's to see if the window displays were up yet. As a student designer presenting in Pittsburgh Fashion Week, one of my looks was picked to be put on display in a window of the Macy's in downtown Pittsburgh! After walking around the entire store, we finally came to the correct side of the store and yes! The displays were set up!! I did fan girl a bit but then I got all no-they-styled-my-pieces-wrong-who-do-I-bitch-at. So Colin and I went inside and found the woman in charge of the displays and she had it fixed! The pictures were obviously taken before the blouse was tucked into the shorts, though. Also, we had the first event of Pittsburgh Fashion Week last night. That is a completely different story. I don't... I can't even... I just... *deep breaths* It was a fantastic opportunity to network and get to know the city I am living in. (that sentence was intended to be read in complete monotone) But listen guys, I'm insanely exhausted and so incredibly tired I want to puke. Does that make even make sense? I don't even know anymore. Like what is happening. It's 2:40 am. I need to sleep. What is sleep anymore. It has taken me literally four hours to write this post because I have messed up so much.... Anyway, here's my window display! Enjoy, babies.

Xx Caitlyn

Fall is Here!

WHAT'S UP BABES. In a great mood lately! I'm finished with my first quarter of college and I'm back in the beautiful state of New York! So happy I got to come home in September. Fall in Upstate New York is one of my favorite things. To get out of the car in my driveway after smelling nothing but Pittsburgh air for 3 months, fresh air is just... refreshing. So being back in New York, I obvi had to get to the nearest Salvation Army to stock up on some good fall sweaters. I have to run to some other consignment stores to see what other over sized knits I can find. Here are some pictures of the sweaters I picked up during my latest Salvo trip!Also... I cut my hair!! I also did a little ombre on it too! I call this cut my "Fashion Blogger hair". I think it really gives me a modern-yet-edgy-classic-yet-urban feel. I love it!! Five or six inches cut off! It's been a looooong time since I've actually cut my hair. It feels so unbelievably healthy, I highly suggest cutting that long hair short! If you know me personally, yo would know that my hair is my child, aside from my shoes, of course. I have a three barrel waver that I've been using on it and I absolutely love the way it looks! I've actually been thinking I'd trim another half inch off but I don't know. Now up until this sentence, this post was written back in New York. However, I'm back in Pittsburgh because I'm volunteering during Pittsburgh Fashion Week. I have to get going in about a half an hour to meet Colin then we're walking to Station Square for a run through of tomorrow's event. Getting really excited!! Oh and I got new roommates.... we'll see how this goes... (They're BOTH fashion DESIGN majors... I am very territorial when it comes to fashion so again, let's see how this goes.) Welp, I gotta run and eat my breakfast, have a fall-tastic day everyone!

Xx Caitlyn

Love is Patient, Love is Kind.

Hello my babies. So the past couple days I've been listening to Macklemore's "Same Love" non-stop. I kid you not, by the end of the week, I'll probably have racked up at least 100 views at the end of the week. Now, the past couple of weeks I've been really focused on Gay Rights and LGBT activities. I have ALWAYS literally from the day I was born I felt I was a supporter. I never knew any different. I was raised with a gay uncle who I am and always have been close with. The past couple years I have become insanely close with him. Now, especially with all these new college experiences and decisions, I almost always text my uncle instead of my mom because I feel he gives me answers that allow me to have fun but be safe. Anyway, going to an art school, you find a lot of.... creative..people... That being said, coming to Pittsburgh a single and somewhat ready to mingle gal, I had some trouble finding a, how shall I say it... "normal" guy.  But I did find one. Oh he was different alright but I liked him. He was older, much older than I'm used to but he was still a freshman. The whole thing lasted for about a week but still it was a little fling I needed to get out of my system. I was a little bummed but you can't hide from differences. *Sidenote... I totes feel like Carrie Bradshaw right now, writing about my love life, hehehe. Anyway, after all is said and done, he was different than any other guy I have ever dated and it opened my eyes. People are so different and you never really know who you are until something happens to you personally. So I ask that you don't judge anyone until you really know what they're like. You might feel a little off about someone but that's because you don't know them. I still really like the guy I was seeing but you have to patient and you can't force things. So if things end, they end. Don't make it ugly or rude. Love is kind. Don't try to force someone into something they don't want. Love is patient. And on the note of people being different, back to me always being a supporter of Gay Rights, I met my new GBF, (Gay Best Friend)!! Every girl needs a good gay man in her life. Mine is named Colin. He's a photography major at the Art Institute. He is also my official assistant for Fashion Week. This boy is my love. I mean like, ugh baby I luh you. He's so precious. Even though he's like, 3 years older than me, I still call him my baby. Best part about Colin? He just started his own blog! So go, go, go, my babies! Go follow his blog, Confessions of an All American Faggot at AllAmericanFaggot.blogspot.com! His blog is about what's it's really like to be a gay man in today's society. (along with all of our college adventures!) So now go out and have fun with your life but don't forget, don't judge. You never know what people are saying about you, so why should you talk about them?

Xx Caitlyn