Started from the bottom, now WOW!

(First of all, fren clock out already. Make this the last email you check today!)

Anywhos! Sorry I missed last week’s keke but I was waist deep in prepping for New York Fashion Week. Yes, it was baby’s first fashion week (as a DJ).

Me & former VP of IMG Fashion, Fern Mallis

I’ve been going to fashion week since it was on cobblestone at Bryant Park (yikes our feets). Back then it was called Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. When I first started in beauty and fashion, I created and managed an online magazine called Iconography. That was my “in” to everything I had dreamed of doing professionally. Despite not finishing college (my son is a whole 28 years old guys), I really knew I could be more than the girl working a good government job. So shortly after my first visit to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, I created my beauty and lifestyle blog, Gorgeous In Grey.

I was living in Baltimore with a 917 number so that I could make regular visits to New York and crash industry parties as if I lived there. The Amtrak back then was TWENTY WHOLE AMERICAN DOLLARS.

But after about 6 months that got old. And my itch to move to New York got bigger. So I used both the online magazine and my blog on my resume to get a job as a writer in New York and I slept on couches for the first 8 months. I became the editorial assistant at Hello Beautiful and then eventually become the style and beauty editor (I might write a book just on that experience alone).

I constantly pinch the little girl in me who was born in Chestertown, MD (but I will always firmly stand on being “made” in Baltimore). Mentally, I stay on my Simone Biles ish and do cartwheels and somersaults over the things I’ve been able to accomplish.

Deejaying is no different.

My picture making it to WWD is mind blowing!

This NYFW season, I got to deejay two major events. Let me tell you how all of this happened.