MJ: Diary of a Fashion Week Model

10 AM start this morning so I got to sleep in. Pietro picked me up for my Parah show. The hair for this show was wild curls which I loved — although not so much fun to brush out. 

I then had some castings and a hair & makeup test. While Pietro was waiting for me, his friend called and told him about a fashion party which was right around the corner from my job, apparently Lindsay Lohan and Heidi Klum were there, so we called in on the way home. We did not get there until 12 and by then they had left. 

After the show, we met up with Mickey from Wilhelmina and he joined me for a few of my castings.  Then we went to lunch at one of his favorite places in Milan called Corso Como, which is a lunch spot, boutique, art gallery, and book store. Heidi Klum lunched here the next day, so we heard. 

After the show I had a break, so we raced back to the hotel and packed our bags for Milan!!! While we were there, we Skyped home to say hi and a big Happy Birthday to my sister Jessica, 19  Xxxxoooo it was great to see my family, I miss them so much. Happy Birthday Jesse Xxxx!!!

My cousin Lucy, who lives just outside of London, came to visit. We only had a short time in between my shows to catch up. It was great to see her.

Straight after the Mark Fast show we had to race to the airport to catch our flight to Milan, I am going to miss London! But I am so excited to be heading to Milan.

The theme for the show was English summer holidays. They whipped up a cheery atmosphere by filling the lobby of the Claridges hotel ballroom with animal shaped balloons, while serving ice cream and pink lemonade.

For my second look I was given the privilege of leading Stanley the Schnauzer down the runway, and of course he stole the show in his midnight-blue matching jacket.

Kate Moss and Kristen Stewart were among the many A-listers at the show. Here's a pic of me backstage with Kristen Stewart ;)

Then I had the Thomas Tait show, very cool! (I closed this show.) They had blue lights surrounding the catwalk and we had iridescent paint on our arms and faces, to give it a glowing effect.

I had the Ashish show this morning at Somerset House. Awesome show! It was all about glitter and sequins, lots of sequins. Our eye makeup was purple glitter and our nails matched. 

My looks for the Ashish show completely covered in sequins. 

I then had to race straight to the Zoe Jordan show, great show!!  

Running to get changed into 2nd look at Zoe Jordan.

I ended my day with a stack of castings and fittings. Here I am at the Mark Fast casting.

Arrived at Heathrow Airport London at 7am - the line to get through customs was ridiculously long, it was funny to listen to everyone's comments as they got sent to the end of the line. This is only 1/8th of the line.

We met up with Deborah, another model from Union Model management and we traveled together into London to meet with our agency. I was given my book, my show-cards, and a list of 26 castings.

There was no time to drop our bags at the hotel, we just got started with our driver and raced to as many casting as we could before 9pm. Our driver dropped mum & I at our hotel at 9.30 pm and we met up with Micki and Miguel from Wilhelmina and a few other Wilhelmina models for dinner.

All packed and ready to leave New York, we are going to miss our apartment as it has been home for the last month!

Visited Wilhelmina on our way out of NYC, had a chat with the team and discussed what to expect in London, Milan, & Paris. Had a look at some pics that had come back from a shoot that I did earlier this month and here is one of my favorites.

Then off to JFK Airport to leave for London @ 6.40pm Yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! 7 hour flight, which is not too bad compared to the flight from Australia.

Had a great day today, I was very excited to be doing the Jeremy Scott show, he always puts on such an amazingly crazy production!! I wore these great denim cut-out shorts that where shredded all the way down to the knees. (LOVE!!)

Here's my Polaroid pic backstage.

Very natural beautiful makeup for the Elie Tahari show. 

I had the Rodarte show this morning and it was just beautiful!! The hair and makeup for the show was stunning.

The inspiration for the collection was a combination of the 1959 Disney classic Sleeping Beauty and the beautiful works of Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh.

I was very honored to be one of the eight girls in the show to be in the finale scene.

There were a lot of celebrities at the Rodarte show including Taylor Swift, Elle and Dakota Fanning, and of course Anna Wintour.

After the show, I had fittings for two shows and then went to the Rodarte after party. 

In a NYC taxi heading back to the apartment.

After, I had some more casting, then a presentation for Fotini. It was very beautiful, it was up in the penthouse of the Gramercy Hotel, amazing!!

I had a few castings this morning then I had the Tracy Reese show, it was a very fun and flirty show and I enjoyed it.

After the show, some more fittings and then off to the Patrik Ervell show at Milk Studios. I really loved my look in this show, it was different from anything I have done before!!

Awesome outdoor catwalk set up like a secret garden.

My look for the show!

I wore my vintage scarf today that I found at a place in Soho called Paracelso, the owner of the shop, Luxor, is the most amazing lady and we felt very privileged to have met her, we spent 2 hours in her shop going through all the amazing treasures — I felt like I could have spent days there and still not have seen it all.

Another 6am call time this morning, slept through my alarm twice!! And woke up with only 15 minutes to wash my hair and get out the door.

They always makes you feel like a rock star.

 In the subway on the way to my castings and hair and makeup test.

 Having a chat with at the agency with Jose.

Had a crazy day today, 14 castings!! And it was pouring all day, but I have this massive red umbrella so I didn't get too wet.

My very last casting Mum and I made a big mistake and instead of putting into Google maps W. 37th St., we put W. 27th St., so we had to walk 10 blocks in the pouring rain, very smart of us - LOL.