Stylo KL Fashion Festival
March 22, 2008
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Surprise surprise. i’ve been working. me! working for the very first time! *applauds*
My college recruited us students to be helpers at the Stylo KL Fashion Festival in the KL Pavilion. Each of us were allocated under different categories with different team managers such as Logistics, Ushering, Registration, Media & Backstage crew.
I’m under Daephen in the backstage crew… initially i planned to work for 2 days only but they kept callin me back to work cuz i’m goooooood. haha nah. They needed more people so i ended up working with them for 5 days! in the backstage we do stuff like steam the clothes, help the designer with the clothes fittings, change clothes for models, sort out the stuff there, etc etc.
I breathed in alot of hairspray. They constantly sprayed the models’ hair - no wonder their hair seem so unhealthy & dry. Heavy make up was applied on all the models too. It seems like these models are walking-stick-thin Barbie dolls. You dress them, decorate their faces & spoil their hair. You can yell at them too.
Most of you people think I AM THIN??? wait till you meet all these models! HAH! Believe it or not they are skinnier than me!! And taller too! For once in my life, i am in a room where most of the girls are thinner & taller than me! i felt like a normal sized person who’s not that skinny! wheee!
a very amusing feeling for me =)
Some of these models are local, some are Caucasians. I know there are 3 of them from Russia, one from Slovakia, one from the US & the others i dont know… as for locals, Elaine Daly & Amber Chia was present too. There was this other model, her name is Azura. I think she won the Stylo Model of The Year Award (well that’s what i read in The Star newspapers). These models aint as snobbish & arrogant as we all perceive them to be. After all, they are human beings too, just like us.
Hey people, i managed to sneakily take this photo of the models queueing up backstage before going on stage for the Melinda Looi show on 15th of March.
This photo here was taken on Sunday (16th March) during a rehearsal for Michael Ong’s show. As you can see, this is the HUGE Finale "can can dress" that ended the show for Michael Ong, worn by Azura. Michael Ong is standing there with his assistant telling the model how to sway the dress. Lol. 
This was taken backstage too, during the clothes fitting for Melinda Looi. That guy wearing black on the right side is a photographer. They are allowed in to take photos of the backstage chaos.
Here’s the model for Melinda Looi’s Bride dress. [Pssst....i didnt take this photo. Its against the rules for us crew members to be photographing models. Some people just are dumb. So i manipulated them & ask them to send it to me]
yay!
We also had to carry stuff. In this photo, i am holding a pink & red bouquet of roses for the Queen of Malaysia, yes, the Permaisuri Agong’s flowers which is a token of appreciation from the Stylo team. I had to jaga this backstage wtf! I should have sneezed on it multiple times…
TA-DAH! Sai Yung & me nothing better to do cuz we arrived there pretty early…. so we camwhore! At night this area was used for the VIP arrivals…whole place got red carpet all laid out..
Wondering how much we got paid for this? Initially they told us we are not going to be paid. I didnt mind because i am in it for the experience & to be part of something big. We will be receiving a certificate for this. Later, they negotiated with people from our college & decided to pay us RM5 an hour. It’s ok i guess… first time i am earning money! wee!
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