This event started-off L.A.’s Fashion Week for me. (Although, truth be told, isn’t every<\/em> week fashion week for me?!) It was really one of the most fun Fashion Week events ever!<\/p>\n The patio mingle. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n It was held at the W Hollywood, and the way they did the whole affair was very interesting.<\/p>\n To start, guests mingled on the patio, and got to shop some of the lines at an outdoor boutique. There was a bar, and servers passed trays of creamy desserts. (Obviously, the models didn’t have any that night…or ever<\/em>!!!)<\/p>\n The show itself was inside, in the Living Room, with various areas from which to watch it all unfold; there were couches, chairs, and standing room. There were even a couple of seats on the stage!!!<\/p>\n Designer Bri Seeley, on the right, taking her bow at the end of her segment of the show. Photo courtesy of Mannfolk PR.<\/p><\/div>\n The models came down the very long, movie-like, spiral staircase, did a quick turn-around, and returned up the steps. I was, of course, worried the whole time that they were going to fall down the stairs in their crazy-high heels! But no one did. (To my<\/em> relief, and to the dismay<\/em> of a few audience members who may have been imbibing a bit too much earlier!)<\/p>\n I was there primarily to peruse the line of Bri Seeley, about whom I’ve written in the past. This go-round she was featuring easy-breezy evening wear. I was wishing that I was wearing any one of those designs that night!<\/p>\n There was a really clever touch in-between the presentations. After each designer’s segment of the show, a parade of show personnel descended the stairs, and gave each guest a bag of much-appreciated sustenance supplies! In them was a flavored sparkling water and two kinds of health bars.<\/p>\n ES Nail techs doing artistic gel manicures. Misako Matsui is on the left. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n But the best part of the evening, to me, was discovering a duo of nail techs from ES Nail on the patio doing\u2014get ready for this\u2014gel<\/em> manicures!!! We each waited for well over an hour for our turn, but it was soooo worth it! My manicurist was Misako Matsui, and she was adorable. She’s indeed an artist, and seemed to love what she was doing. I couldn’t take my eyes off her hands performing their painting skills, even though I’ve seen it from others a million times over! My nails came out looking magnificent, which was the perfect ending to the evening. Big props to whosever the brilliant idea this was!<\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/img_4453.jpg\")
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