After finally over working myself for almost a month, culminating to only 3 - 4 hours sleep during the last

10 days of Luxury Week, I am finally able to take a small breather.  It was an experience having to

manage fittings, backstage, all the collections and the steaming of them, dressers, show rundowns,

line ups of models, hair and make up and of course many other unforeseen mishaps and emergencies

that happen along the way was exhausting.  Luckily we had our indispensible assistants to help us

through it all.  I am forever grateful to Gabby, Rachel, Mayda, Darlene, LcMan and Zam for their efforts and

extremely hard-work.

It has been 1 week since Lux Week ended, and deep down inside, despite all the stress and anxieties

that occured this year, I do miss it..and certainly missing Four Seasons Hotel.  Next time we step back

into the place, I really hope to be able to come in as a customer....and get to enjoy the hotel's services

instead of running like a mad dog up and down the back elevators and staircase.

Not much mood to take photos this year because of the stress level....and only had the chance to really

take any photos is during hair and make up time....

Toni & Guy...our great hair team

 Shu Uemura...our make up team

 the MasterCard Bar

 Models relaxing while getting their hair fixed

 Our backstage manager Jimmy and our faithful

assistang Lc Man

  Eunis...supermodel of Hong Kong

 Lisa getting her hair touched up while gabbing

on the phone!

Right after Luxury Week, we jumped right into 2 big photo shoots...one for Cabbeen, a Mainland China

men's wear brand.  We spent a day at the beach getting ourselves toasted like marshmellows.  But the

photos turned out just fine...I will post some later once we finish up the touch ups.  Right after Cabbeen's

campaign shoot...it was for Square...a new up and coming boy band from Hong Kong made up of

Brian, James, Gary and Rex.  All were previous models and I knew personally 3 of the 4 guys previously.

Again, it was an outdoor shoot.....but luckily it was not too hot and sunny that day, and we had the luxury

of a huge air conditioned bus to hide from the heat.

From Left to Right:  Gary, Brian, James and Rex

Their EP will come out officially early October...so be on the look out for it!!

Boy...the typhoon No 9 on Friday really put a damper on things...screwed up our fitting schedule for the MasterCard Lux Week big time...girls supposedly to arrive Friday did not, and some even showed up Sunday afternoon....but like always, we bear with it with a grin and got through it.  We were finally able to fit through.....6 brands in a day and a half....not an easy feat considering we were running on borrowed time and our fittings were a marathon of paper work, photo taking, tagging, and strong organization skills from my team of great assistants!  We finally got through Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang, DVF, Dorian Ho, Escada and Paul & Shark with not too much of a scratch...now that we are back on schedule and caught up with our fitting schedule...we are still faced with 5 fittings today....but I think we'll do fine....I hope.

Tomorrow is the opening show....a bit nervous...but I think we'll do OK.  Still trying to learn the names of the girls....but we'll get the hang on it.

It was one of the easiest and fastest shoots I've ever done.  We finished 15 shots with both Emma Pei and Ana R within 6 hours!!  Each shot took approximately 5 - 10 minutes (including changing time!)  One shot, we did like 6 or 7 shots and we were done!  Love working with professional super models who knows how to pose.  We were originally booked til 6...we finished at 4:30.

Here's a small snippet of preview...enough to get you all tantalised....but yet not giving away the total story.  These are the raw jpeg files which have not been re-touched yet...shows what great skin Emma has! 

Didn't get out of the office until 10:30 last night....not too late compared to the other shows I've done in the past.  But I was again, typing away at my laptop when I got home until 1:00 am.  Just got loaded with more stuff on my plate....got 2 shoots to do tomorrow....cover shoot for Citta Bella Malaysia with Emma Pei.  Then a fashion spread with Ana.  Phew....I will be so glad when the weekend is here!!

I'm up again this morning at 6:45...couldn't sleep so I thought I get a head start with contacting the brands about my shoot tomorrow!  I don't even know what clothes I have!!!  Am I worried?  Yes and no...I know I have something....just not sure what it is yet.  Oh well!  That's how prepared we usually are in Hong Kong/Asia for editorials.....sigh.  But I know I will pull through.  No worries.   Done this a million times!  Almost its as natural as walking down the street.  Can't believe I'm letting myself blogging though...ahha....But I'm sure for some of you, you would like to see what's going on with me.

Today, there's another spread we have to do....and also in the morning...in exactly 1 hour and 15 minutes, we gotta start make up and hair trials for Lux Week.  Hmmmm.....I need coffee now.  It's 7:45 am.....I've been up already for an hour!  I'm starting to feel tired and sleepy again. I think I woke up too early!

As expected, things are getting a bit ugly....14 shows, 9 model agencies and around 40 or 50 models to juggle...it is starting to get a bit chaotic and messy as clients all fight for their favourites and at the same time their favourites are being snatched up by other clients and shows. 

At the same time, we have around 4 or 5 photo shoots coming up in addition to the other 3 clients we are dealing with as well....it is going to be a busy week!!  But I like to be busy...makes me feel more wanted! And keeps me out of mischieve like going to the bars or just being lazy in front of the TV. 

Recently caught the home-body bug.  Enjoyed being at home rather than going out at night...or on weekends for that matter.  Getting bored of the Hong Kong scene.  See the same old people, and some are ones I not care really to see.  Today has been a day of half rest and half getting some paper work done.  Also met up with some friends for lunch.  All in all, a lazy day.

The following week will be a week for hectic running arounds and marathon emails back and forth.