Maybe it’s the New York hangover. It must be. It’s been a few months since my runway show, and since then I crave the runway. The flashing lights, the music, the excitement that crackles through the air as people take their seats… it’s intoxicating. So, naturally, when I heard that Phoenix Fashion Week was hosting a mid-season runway show (and I was in town!) I immediately secured seats to Spring Into Style! Knowing that this was the fashion event of the spring season here

Backstage was some version of organized chaos. On the surface, it seemed like everyone was running around in a mess of tulle, makeup and in some state of undress. But when you looked closer, every designer had their station, every model was readying for her turn on the runway and the make-up artists consulted the stack of face charts for each look. An assistant checked me in for my showcase and thrust a lanyard over my head to grant me access to backstage. I walked past secu