IRINA TOP COOL!
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WEDNESDAY
7:00 Irina, and an impressive team of top models - Raquel Zimmermann, Lara Stone, Mariacarla Boscono... - show up backstage at Karl Lagerfeld. She has the head of a badly woken kitten under her fringe, wears a navy blue vintage dress and a beige linen trench coat. She carries on with coffees and fags while [hairstylists] are straightening her hair. Her best friend, Sally Anchassi, Babyshambles' manager and Pete Doherty's roommate, accompanies her.
7:30 She goes through makeup and begs Sally to get a hand on the Akris leather knee-high boots she has kept after yesterday's show and thrown in a corner. "Irina is almost more shambolic than the Babyshambles altogether, she sighs, but she is the nicest girl I've ever met. She iss the size of a bird, but has a heart of a lion."
8:15 The cameraman of Fashion TV tries desperately to follow Irina who's sprinning around backstage. She stole his microphone and is having fun interviewing her friend Lily Donaldson. Everyone stops working to see her doing the clown.
9:30 Irina is the last to have her hair and makeup done. The dressers go crazy, but she won't stop having fun. She swings the clothes stand that carries the two outfits she will wear. The dresser yells while showing the sign : "Very fragile." "They're just clothes! We have to stay cool, or else, we panic and do nothing!" exclaims Irina. The dresser doesn't seem to agree completely.
10:15 Irina dashes on the podium at the sound of rock music, in a black smoking with sequins. She is perfect.
10:30 The fashion show is over. Euphoria in the backstage, everyone applauds Karl. Irina picks up a macaron on the buffet, smacks a big kiss on Karl's cheek, spends 10 minutes to find her blue dress, decides to accessorize with a black bowtie from the fashion show and it works. She offers a pair of Repetto she wore during the show to Sally. "I thank God, every day, for running the same size as her!" exclaims her friend.
11:00 The driver isn't arriving. Irina has a meeting at the Marilyn agency and has to do three fittings. Her agent panics. Her friend Sally panics. The journalist and the photographer of ELLE panic. But Irina sits on the guardrail, along the quay?(not sure), and swings her legs in the void while whistling. Japanese tourists stop their car and yell: "Irina! Irina!" She makes funny faces and poses with a smile.
12:00 Irina is hungry. She asks the driver to stop at the next McDonald's, orders a Big Mac menu and two Cheeseburgers that she swallows in 3:15 minutes.
13:00 Arrived at the showroom of an old friend, Sophia Kokosalaki. She throws her trench coat on a clothes stand, and recalls with [Sophia] the last night she spent with Sean, in New York, apparently well amusing.
14:00 Irina is hungry again, she pecks three salad leaves in the coffee shop nearby. While getting out, she knocks over a pot of flowers laid in front of the door.
15:00 "I need to recharge my batteries" she announces collapsing in the backseat of the car. She takes her iPod and listens to Vitalic while closing her eyes.
16:00 She disembarks at Chanel for the fitting. Portraits of her as Mademoiselle Coco are displayed on all the walls.
18:15 Irina changes stockings for the third time. Karl is finally satisfied. "Irina is funny, she sings and she enchants us." (French wordplay here!) exclaims the designer.
18:30 Laetitia Crahay, director of jewelry and accessories at Chanel, bring her to her office to show her the photos they've shot together last week. Irina is the new face of the maison Michel, mythical hatter, that Chanel has rebought and which Laetitia is the artistic director.
19:00 Irina sneaks off to Hussein Chalayan, she is an hour late.
19:30 Before swallowing herself up in the backtsage, she gives us a meeting at the bar of the hotel Westminster, where she finds, every night, her top model friends to party.
23:00 No one at hotel Westminster. Sally picks up Irina's mobile. "She ate slices of pizza and fell asleep!" Meeting postponed for tomorrow morning.
THURSDAY
8:00 Waited for 6:00 at the Chanel show, Irina arrives two hours late, tousled hair and dark ringed eye. "It's been a month that I'm in Fashion Week, I've just done New York, London and Milan, I can't take it anymore!" she exclaims while throwing herself on the buffet's croissants.
8:30 Repetition around the merry-go-round constructed for the show, at the Grand Palais. Irina mimes a rodeo on a giant quilted bag.
9:00 Irina sleeps while Odile Gilbert does her hair.
9:03 "Red Red Wine" is played backstage. Irina leaps from her armchair and starts dancing in her checked men's costume, very Annie Hall.
11:00 She stumbles on Claudia Schiffer while getting out of Grand Palais. "Look, it's the anti-me! She is sublime! She is perfect!" she exclaims.
11:30 In the car, she reclaims her mobile to call HER Pete, who, at the end of the line, doesn't seem very awaken. "I'm in Paris, baby, not in London!" "PA-RIS!" she screams in the telephone.
15:00 Arrived at the showroom Paul & Joe, in the Marais, she chats online with the interns and thinks of getting rib steak and french fries from Robert et Louise, her favorite restaurant, a few streets from there.
15:30 Irina is enchanted by the collection. "There are many tailored suits : tennis stripes, masculine and feminine silhouettes, it's all me!" she cries out.
15:45 Irina falls face down the stairs and breaks her face getting out of the showroom, she goofs around.
16:30 We pass by the police hotel. "It's the hotel where Pete drops by when he comes to Paris!" she cries out bursting in laughs.
17:00 Irina crosses the Jardin de Tuileries, she is waited for the Rykiel show.
17:15 Nathalie Rykiel aligns her models in the back of the room to brief them. "I want you to be crazy!" she says to her girls. Irina, crouched on the floor, applauds.
18:00 During the fashion show, Irina flips her hat in the air, and does a french Cancan.
18:15 A romanian journalist approaches her to ask for an interview. "No problem!" she assures him, and she embarks in the car where already squeezed, her agent, Sally, the journalist and photographe of ELLE. The journalist is squeezed like in a box of sardines, but happy.
19:00 Last fashion show of the day, Rue du Mail, at Martine Sitbon." "Place! Here's Irina and her 'entourage'!" she screams disembarking backstage. The "entourage" is tired.
19:15 "The Sartorialist" wants to immortalize Irina's look for his blog, at the show's exit. She lends herself with grace for the session of poses. The magazine also wants to shoot Sally in her blue tunic. Irina jumps for joy "I'm so proud of you baby!".
21:00 She is waited at the Fendi afterparty, where her old friend Amy Winehouse has to do a surprise appearance. She wants to change clothes, but no time, she has to go avenue Montaigne, order of Karl Lagerfeld. She sulks in the car, listening to electro to the bottom of her ears.
22:00 Of all the guests in night gowns, Irina distinguishes herself with her checked men's suit and big sunglasses with sequins worn at the Rykiel show. She downs her third drink and goes backstage to kiss Amy.
23:00 The private concert will begin. We're looking for Irina everywhere. She went to sleep. Who said that the life of a top model was a neverending party?