With the exception of a lovely chat with Anneloes and David outside after escaping this tired excuse for a social event, the Amsterdam Fashion Week opening party sponsored by Nokia was an unmitigated disaster. :@
Held at the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam, we waited for more than half an hour to get in, and would have never gotten in had we not powered our way to the front of the line. We didn't have tickets but were on the Nokia guest list, so you'd think we would have been treated a little better. When we got inside we found a crowded, tropically warm room with a very unglamorous group of people. Very little going on except for a single crowded bar, a bunch of wannabes trying to figure out why they were there and a few second-rate Dutch celebs. Tired! We wandered around for about 30 minutes then decided to get out.
Then when we tried to leave they wouldn't let us because there was too large a crowd outside waiting to get in. And the emergency exits were locked! Can you say fire trap? We were afraid they were going to sell us into slavery to make third-rate Nokia phones in a third-world country somewhere. I then got out my Sony-Ericsson phone (the apparent brand of choice at this party!) and threatened to call the police if they woldn't let us out. Anneloes threatened to fake a fainting spell. I think here threat was by far more dramatic; you win, honey!
So the only good thing that came out of this was a nice chat with two new friends. Thankfully the first half of the evening went MUCH better (see above), and the trip to Amsterdam wasn't a total loss.
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