♥Just a few more snaps from the day of graduation♥
cute bike plates on the Jane Hotel bicycles
graduation day breakfast at the Jane's lovely Café Gitane-- mmm!
hot chocolate with the café's logo in cocoa-- so cute and sooo delicious
pretty embossed wallpaper in the stairwell-- I love little touches like this!
the beautiful corsage my mom gave me to wear during the ceremony, and my decorated cap
Thank you so much for all the graduation well-wishes, everyone, and thank you so much for joining me on the past four years and into the future. Your support and kind words mean so much to me.
On Tuesday May 22nd, I received my BFA from FIT, graduating summa cum laude with a major in Fashion Design, specializing in Sportswear, and with a minor in English.
My family arrived on Monday morning so we could have some time together in the city.
It was rainy, but that didn't stop us from having a lovely time.
My mom, my brother, and my Aunt Nancy were staying at the Jane Hotel, and this is the bottle of water from the room-- my mom gave me the bottle because it's so my style and so cute! thank you mom!
My friend Cara and me before the ceremony-- thanks for the photo, Jewels!
the stage and student seats-- Carolina Herrera received her honorary doctorate from FIT during the same ceremony, which was so cool! And I was in the center of the front row, so I had a perfect view. Yay!
After graduation, we went to the Russian Tea Room for celebratory dinner. It was so wonderful, definitely one of the coolest places I've ever been. We had dinner on the first floor, in the main restaurant area, but afterward, we were allowed to go upstairs to see two of the coolest features of the restaurant.
The first one is this glass bear aquarium-- it's 9 feet tall not including the base, and it revolves! Since we were there when there wasn't an event going on (which is why we were able to go up in the first place), it wasn't lit or revolving at the time, but it was still amazing to see.
The second beautiful curiosity in the Bear Lounge is this incredible egg tree, decorated with Venetian blown glass eggs. It's one of the most magical things I've ever seen. I'm absolutely enamored with it. Full disclosure, this picture is the one off the Russian Tea Room site (with a little post-processing by me) because we didn't want to over-stay our welcome with the very sweet manager who let us go into the closed area. But it was just as gorgeous in person.
Just to give you another look into this amazing space...
Congratulations to everyone who graduated from FIT on Tuesday! I feel so privileged to have been able to share the past four years with you. And congratulations to everyone who has graduated this year, from any school!
Last Friday, after my last final exam ever, I went for a celebratory walk on The High Line.
Today I'm graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology. It's a weird feeling. I'm excited, of course, it's a milestone and graduating from my dream school is surreal. But knowing that my dad and my grandmother, two people who I never imagined this happening without, won't be there is giving me a knot in my stomach and a lump in my throat. Late last night I was imagining what graduation would be like, and without even thinking about it, I was picturing my dad's proud, beaming face as he saw me for the first time as a college graduate. I think that's why graduation feels a little...anti-climactic. Knowing that no matter how wonderful it is, and how excited I am to move into the next stage of my life, my dad won't be there holding flowers after the ceremony. It's a reality I wasn't ready to face quite yet. But all I can do is make the best of it.
So this is the end of the hardest, most stressful, most transformational, and most rewarding four years of my life.
