Last week I was invited by Grace Hanlon and Yvonne Moss to take photos during a video shoot with Kay Unger herself in the fashion district of NYC. Um, is that a girl’s dream come true or what!?!?!

I can’t even describe how amazing it was to be there in the showroom while buyers from Macy’s and Bloomingdales were there, to be in the back workroom while designers were sketching and seamstresses were carefully pinning and sewing every unique seam, and to be in the presence of so many AMAZING Kay Unger New York and Phoebe Couture dresses that hadn’t even hit the stores yet! Some of the fabric prints are actually hand-painted designs by Kay herself which are made into fabric. Others are stitching, cutting and designing textures by hand with strips of fabric to see how they lay on mannequins. That just screams the type of passion she has about her art, doesn’t it?

Needless to say I snapped away at every detail I could find and when I wasn’t doing that I was sitting in for Kay Unger while Grace and videographer Jeff Buccellato dressed the set. Needless to say it looks like my attention is most definitely on the Spring ’09 collection around me, particularly that yellow dress behind me! Thanks for the sneaky pictures Yvonne! 🙂

This was really a great experience and what made it even more awesome was meeting Kay and her staff, some of which you’ll see in below. Enjoy!!

Vj