The fashion world tour of
Maartje Verhoef
For Maartje Verhoef, the fashion circus began in New York. She arrived with a modest suitcase, saw Rihanna, David Beckham, Karl Lagerfeld, and Donatella Versace, and conquered with 66 shows walked. The most of all models in the world. With amayzine.com, she exclusively shares the photos of a month with little sleep, new best friends, and a whole lot of designer bags.
These are already my things that I had to take for a period of six weeks, not knowing that I during fashion week would receive a lot more.
Here I am with other Dutch models with Lieke van Houten and Julia Bergshoeff. We chill on the rooftop terrace of Lieke’s model apartment. This is just before fashion week when it was still calm…
At the Jason Wu fitting, I received this cute water bottle and the beautiful bag. The first of the eleven.
Backstage at the Coach show, with Julia and Ine (Neefs). Our very first show of the season where we received another beautiful bag.
The cupcake I got from Victoria Beckham, it was my birthday that day and she surprised me with this. So sweet.
Backstage at Alexander Wang my eyebrows were bleached for the first time. That would happen another nine times after that.
Backstage at the Victoria Beckham show, where I did the makeup and hair looks. Together with Julia, Ine, and David Beckham in the photo.
My little room in the model apartment is getting fuller with gifts.
The view backstage at the Hugo Boss show, in the World Trade Center on the 52nd floor with a catwalk that offered a view of the Statue of Liberty.
And here you see the paparazzi after the Hugo Boss show who want to photograph all the VIPs.
Backstage at Michael Kors, we were napping for a bit (where we also received a nice bag) together with Julia, this was quite at the end of New York Fashion Week and we had only three hours of sleep that night and walked five shows and did three fittings that day… So tough.
At Burberry, we received a 90 ml bottle of perfume, My Burberry with our own initials on it. My look from Christopher Kane and the difficult heels from Tom Ford.
The watch I got from Fendi, the Fendi MyWay. These are my looks at Blue Marine and at Etro, we are already in Milan.
My sister and mother came to Milan support me and there we finally had pizza.
Medicines (Berocca) and blister plasters to survive fashion week.
The looks of Ine and me. As usual we walked behind each other again.
Here you see what nine times bleaching and recoloring does to your eyebrows…. The wrong color and a lot smaller. I got the beautiful puzzle bag at Loewand I was also very happy with the beautiful Céline bag.
On the scooter with Micha, my agent from Micha Models, this is the fastest way to go from show to show. The Valentino show…The paparazzi waiting for us at the Tuileries. Together with Julie and Julia in the car on our way to the next show.
At Alexander McQueen I spotted myself on the front page of the fashion newspaper WWD.
These beautiful flowers I received from Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.
At the Hermès show, the last show of fashion week, we were wonderfully massaged.
One last photo with Ine, Julie, and Julia… The result of seeing each other every day for six weeks…
