Impromptu Trip to the Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards

This weekend has been an unexpectedly exciting 48 hours!

It all started on Friday night when I got a last minute call from my friend Chris asking if I wanted to attend the Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards at the new Park Hyatt Hotel.

Chris is the founder of CrowdFlik, a mobile video app that I’ve been involved with. (Check it out in the Apple Store or Google Play – it’s free!) We’ve been capturing a lot of great mobile footage with the app for testing purposes and to use as example content. Earlier this summer, we filmed Sam Smith’s performance at iHeartRadio Theater and were excited to see the app’s time synching technology performing well. The app allows users to splice together mobile video from an event and create “fliks” – montages of your favorite crowd-sourced content. Chris & some CrowdFlik team members will be sharing footage and filming elevator pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this week starting September 8th. You can follow @CrowdFlik and the hashtag #TCDisrupt to see what they’re up to.

Anyway – back to the FMAs! It was a pretty surreal experience to suddenly be in the same room with supermodels, actors and fashion industry icons.  I snapped a few not-so-great pics which I’ve shared below. I was most excited to see Claire Danes since she’s my favorite actress and Homeland is the only TV show I really follow.  She spoke about Carrie Matthison during her speech.

Claire Danes

Kate Upton accepting the Social Media of the Year Award.

Other speakers included: Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell & Tom Ford.

Christy Turlington at the FMA’s

Naomi Campbell at the FMA’s

Tom Ford at the FMA’s

Alessandra Ambrosio