alyssabird is a Chictopia seller who has been hand-picked by our editors to sell merchandise on our website.So last week I went to New York for the first time in my life during New York Fashion Week to present my clothing line at the Chictopia10 Social Influence Summit. It was amazing! I hate public speaking, but my presentation went well. Chictopia gave me 15 minutes to present my line however I wanted to, so I made a movie on my computer which included photos from my Spring 2010 and music. I was really nervous, there were 300 attendees and editors from Teen Vogue, Nylon, Vice, and WWD. I ended up designing a new purple dress inspired by spiderwebs for the event. I took my model Hilary (who modeled in my Spring 2010 Collection) to New York with me to model during my presentation. I am pretty sure she was more nervous then I was! We really enjoyed listening to all the speakers, but when it was my turn to present, we went downstairs to get ready and ran into like 13 gorgeous male models with amazing accents. I think they were from the UK. Also, one of them, I think his name was Charles, told me I looked great and showed me all his scars. It made me less nervous about presenting. The designer who had all the models totally one-upped my presentation because all I had was one model and a movie! Oh well! I still had fun! After the presentation Helen (from Chictopia) surprised me with roses! And they were in a wrapper that matched my Spring 2010 Collection. The conference could not have ended any better. OH WAIT EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE AN EDITOR FROM WWD INTERVIEWED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so serious right now, I am not even making it up, she came up to me super quick after my presentation and interviewed me about my line. I’m not sure if she is going to publish the interview, but the fact that she was interested in my clothing line enough to interview me, made my life!!!
I met tons of amazing people at the event. Chictopia is definitely my guilty pleasure and one of my secret addictions and I am so glad I got to be a part of the event. Also, I ate cupcakes with Helen and Corrine in the Chictopia office last week, and it was magical! :)
To check out more photos from the event check out my blog: www.alyssabird.com/blog . To see my Spring 2010 Collection go to WWW.ALYSSABIRD.COM
Spider Webby Dress
-Purple silk
-frayed edges
-cascading ruffles
-zipper closure underneath left armhole
-size xs/s
lovely dress!