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To tell you the truth, as much as I like the fashion shows and seeing lavish and unique collections by the designers, I'm rather a person who likes simplest outfits - the ones you just throw on yourself, mix it up a bit, but that look simple, clean, subtle and....perrrrrfectly sexy, but effortlessly sexy...

It's time to invest in a better camera that can actually produce better videos...I must admit that my favorite part of any fashion show is the runaway music...and the after-the-show people in style. Ahhh...Tuesday day dreaming.

After a few tense nights of going through all the photos from the DC Fashion Week menswear collections' runaways, I narrowed it down to a few that stood out. I don't know about you, but it seems to me that a lot of those collections are inspired by very urban African-American culture. When the first models came out on the runaway, I knew the collection might have been from a Washington, DC based designer, who is African-American...It was just very prominent, very obvious, and to some degree - [stereotypical and typical] - of an African-American culture: very splashy, gaudy, rich, cheerful, colorful...and a bit of gangster and gigolo.

Yes, I'm trying - [insanely] - to wrap up DC Fashion Week , but with the hundreds of photos I took, it's impossible to do it all at once. Besides, there are a few components to any fashion show. So... There are - runaway shows, models behind the scenes, designers' interviews, celebrities in attendance, fashionistas and It-Girls and the general public...Not to mention that there is always something else that might happen during the fashion weeks - like an interesting political/social protest outside the show and/or an extravagant pre-show promotional campaigns by the sponsors of the shows...

I'm really loving it. It reminds me of all the retro 1970s films about the African-American civil rights movements, Jazz clubs and Diana Ross era...I could never understand why so many African-American women color and flatten their hair when it looks so good the natural style? I hope they'd keep the 'new' look for a while! What do you think?

We all know that the magic happens before, in-between and after a fashion show. A different kind of magic - when the fashionistas get up from their seats and walk the hallways in hope to be captured by the photographers...Even if they say, they are indifferent to it. They are NOT. They actually dress more for the photographers than they do for the rest of the crowd. As a matter of fact, there are quite a few street fashion photographers in NYC, for example, who made it way too cool for someone to end up on their blogs. I'll tell you even better... shshshshsshshsh ...

My photo for VOA Let's just say - I'm very, very tempted to get a tattoo now...

My photo for VOA Fashion weeks are officially over in USA. They've been now taking Europe by storm...and this might have been such a sight...Ah, [sigh] - for not being there. It's interesting how a human nature works - you're looking forward to the fashion weeks, but once they are in progress, you're looking forward to the end of them because of all the exhaustion of working at the shows - not to mention the overwhelming amount of design-shots that you then need to sort through and choose the ones that really stand out...But it's very possible that they can ALL stand out and that makes my job mission impossible. I then have to look through hundreds of photos...By the time I'm done, I'm exhausted - and that's THE mistake not to make, because something that you love - like a favorite hobby of yours - should never tire you down to the point that you're thinking of taking a break from it :) Either way, even though I now have tons of photos to pi...

As it always happens at the last moment - something - THAT something - makes me miss some of the fashion shows only in time to catch up with the fashionistas at the next shows to tell me that I haven't missed much... It's actually rather sad when someone says about a fashion week -"it's been dull"...This is definitely not something you'd hear at the NY Fashion Week - months in advance NY fashionistas start looking around to see if anyone knows someone - who knows somebody - who has access to the tickets to the fashion shows. It's like with the bouncers at the cool, hip and happening lounges - you've got to know them! You've got to know your way around. So, I hung on tight to my PRESS badge - the ultimate access key to the fabulousity of the fashion shows...

For the second year in a row I've been attending DC Fashion Week . Many things have been said about the DC fashion scene, among the most predominant and often-said things are that DC is far from being a fashionable place ...