I'd like to thank Ate Gigi for fulfilling my vain fantasy of taking a turn down the catwalk at the ForMe go-see last week for Philippine Fashion Week. Its something I wanted to try before I turned 30...now its 31. I headed over to the Rockwell tent one afternoon last week with artificially wavy hair, without lunch (as if skipping one meal would help) and mentally practicing my new birthday ("Me? I was born in 1981!") because a 30-year old trying this kind of thing seemed way too old.There were close to a hundred girls of different variants of skinny. Happily I wasn't the shortest one and I didn't look like the oldest one, though I had to look away several times lest I caught the eye of some of the models who I'd already hired as talents before. ("Ma'am Sheila?? Wag ka na kasi maki-agaw ng projects namin!") By 5pm I was dying of hunger and afraid of tripping flat on my face, but I figured what the hey, I just had to try it once.
Gigi recently sent me the video she took with her phone of my "audition" and I might have the guts to post it someday, but so far I've only shown it to some close friends. She also accompanied it with a nice note that best summarizes what happened, and also shows you how wonderfully lucky I am to have such supportive friends:
"Sheila was so beautiful that afternoon! There were almost 80 models in Rockwell Tent in that ForMe go-see. For perspective, the brand is all about body shapes. The task was to choose only 6 models per body type (e.g., hourglass, rectangle, triangle & inverted triangle). Sheila belongs to the athletic rectangular shape. She was not chosen coz the brand mostly got the veterans na. However, my officemate Alex was raving about your lola’s byutiful fes at ang sabi nya mataas daw ang standards nya. There were other go-see for the imported brands ulit the next day but syempre Sheila only wanted to experience how it is to do the catwalk in super high heels. She did it! (Though next time, I told her she can smile & walk a little more slowly hehe!)."
Cheers to small adventures that take us out of the usual daily routine. :-)
