The Importance of Being Ernest: June 2014

Two weeks ago I had the amazing opportunity to take part in the Hermes All About Women Event on Wall Street in NYC. A friend from college sent me a message saying that a private event she was hired to do was looking for last minute replacements. She told me I needed to come down to Wall Street right now for a fitting and to see if I was the "type" that the company was looking for. That was about all that she could tell me. So i jump on the train and get to Wall Street, right across from the New York Stock Exchange. Turns out the event is a super exclusive party of Hermes, the French fashion label. They have me try on bathing suits for about an hour and take pictures of me in them. Then they tell me I have to rush to Brooklyn for rehearsal, as fast as I can! So off I go into the NYC rain. I get to the rehearsal space in Brooklyn to find 7 other girls that are just as tall and lanky as me. It was wonderful! We had 3 days of rehearsal before the show and it was so much fun. I felt like a real model. We had our nails done, hair done, make-up done. We each had our own dressers backstage at the show. It was a high quality operation.

The night of the event we performed our 16 minute "dance" show six times for the audience. After the runway fashion show happened upstairs, all the guests came down to experience the interactive parts of the night. There was our swimwear show, another room where there were dancing girls showing off handbags, a man reading fortunes in an Hermes scarf, photo booths and even an arcade horse racing game. They thought of everything. After our show was done, we were invited to stay for the after party. So we took pictures in the photo booths, drank champagne, and played the horse racing games. I am so thankful for the experience! Thank you Lily and Hermes!