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Hello Darlings, With a special occasion, comes the preparation which is part of the journey. Attending a fashion week is a different kind of anticipation, it is preparing to weather the stress of a non stop schedule. While many of us can relate to the dilemma, fashion week is an overdrive experience. September marking the official launch of spring/summer 2015 worldwide fashion weeks. I’d like to share some of my hardest learned lessons after surviving a number of fashion weeks. Now having attended New York, Miami, Toronto and Montreal fashion weeks, I feel like I’ve learned some of the key lessons on how to handle high pressure circumstance while rocking 5 inch heels, battling frizz or frost bite and still enjoying the moment.

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So while not all of us are prepping to attend a fashion week, the lessons learned are valuable to any part of our lives. After all I promise that fashion week is an affair that is glamorous on images but quite difficult and at times unpleasant in real life. Don’t believe the hype, fashion is not always fabulous but rather in fact anything but when experienced backstage. Like a lot of things in life more often it really isn’t what it seems to be.

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Hello Darlings, Whenever a woman checks her bags at the gate, she always says a little prayer hoping that her beloved wardrobe and most importantly shoes arrive at the final destination. This is especially the case when travelling for fashion week because being stranded without a wardrobe would be a crises more so than any other time. As Miya – beauty editor at TheYouthSociety.com – and I said our farewell to the luggage, it was supposed to have been just a quick 3 hour flight to the sunny Miami.

Marta Tryshak at Miami Swim Week

Unfortunately our trip started off on an adventurous side of Miami airport being closed and our flight making an emergency landing at Fort Myers to refuel. With a two hour setback we safely landed in Miami and as did our luggage. Some will say that it’s not the destination but the journey that matters, well if our journey to the destination was any telltale sign then the week ahead surely seemed promising. And in fact it was but on that a little later! As we pulled up to Mondrian South Beach it was with a great relief that we checked into our room rushing to get ready for the 10th anniversary Swim Week opening party.

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Hello Darlings, “We live for nights that spontaneous decisions become awesome adventures.” One quote that so perfectly describes my last trip to Bahamas. As I was packing for a last minute trip to Bahamas on Monday evening, I realized that spontaneity is truly the spice of life. There was something so exhilarating and thrilling about going on a trip that took less than 24 hours to plan!

The Cove Atlantis, Bahamas

On a random Sunday night my friend decided that we should go to Bahamas on Tuesday. I received a simple, ” Let’s go to Bahamas” text from her. Not the one to pass up on an adventure or an opportunity to travel to a new place, I was all in. Within an hour we were booked and leaving behind the stormy Toronto weather for Bahamian sunshine. From a random but brilliant idea I was lounging on a daybed and sipping on a mojito at the beautiful Cane pool at The Cove Atlantis in Bahamas just 24 hours later. I was in heaven!

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