CANDY WASHINGTON

WRITER | PRODUCER | ACTOR | MANIFESTATION + SELF-LOVE MUSE

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Special guest on Girls on GIRLS Show

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Hi lovelies,

I was just the special guest on the Girls on Girls Show and I had a blast chatting with host Ellen Clifford and Jason Stuart during the cocktails segment of the show.

Ellen was kind of enough to create a special signature drink just for me, appropriately entitled, "The Candy Washington."

Watch below for our fun cocktails segment and for the recipe to the yummy, "The Candy Washington," drink. Try out the recipe and let me know what you think!

Watch HBO's Girls Season 3 Trailer and a personal post

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I was a huge fan of the first season of HBO's GIRLS and I even had the pleasure of attending a NYLON event featuring Jennifer Rogien, who is the costume director of the show. But I have to admit that the second season lost that special something about being a young 20-something year old young woman trying to come into her own in New York City, and, dare I say it, was trying a bit too hard.

To me, the first season of GIRLS was a breath of fresh air and really spoke to me - I could laugh, cry, and most importantly, I could relate. As almost a prelude to Sex & the City, I found that the show was able to create characters with very unique and distinctive point-of-views (thank you Lena Dunham) but I was still able to find shades of myself within each character. I'm a bit of a neurotic like Hannah and Carrie, a bit of a control freak like Marnie and Miranda, a big dreamer and optimist like Shosannah and Charlotte, and emotionally guarded when it comes to relationships like Jessa and Samantha. But at the core, we are all the same: loyal, fierce, strong, and constantly seeking.

After watching the trailer for season 3, I got super excited for the episodes to come. GIRLS, for the minute and a half that was released in the trailer, seems to have found its way back to its roots that turned me, and millions of other women and men, into the super fan that I was when it first came out of the gate in season 1.

"I hate this. Yeah, but you know what Adam? It's really liberating saying no to sh*t you hate." Amen Hannah, and welcome back.

EVENT SCOOP: Styld.by with NYLON + Gap

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Jenn Rogien, costume designer for HBO's Girls and Netflix's Orange is the New Black and Rachel Wang, fashion market director for NYLON

 

I swung by the Styld.by event with NYLON + Gap for some yummy ginger beer cocktails, rockin' tunes by DJ Leslie Kirchhoff, racks of the latest denim and fall fashion finds from Gap, a complimentary issue of NYLON with cover girl Alexa Chung, and an awesome Q&A with Jenn Rogien, costumer director of GIRLS and Orange is the New Black moderated by Rachel Wang, the fashion market director for NYLON magazine.

Top insights from Jenn:

  • She loves having fun with clothes - mix and match the high with the low for unique looks and outfits
  • She uses costumes to tell a story and bring a character to life - every outfit starts with the script
  • To take your fashion career to the next level take any and all jobs (she worked for years costume designing for off-off Broadway and community theaters before breaking into TV) - and always be on time
  • Her time spent working in corporate America was invaluable. It taught how to work on team, how to collaborate, and how to be structured
  • She loves all of the characters that she dresses - the moment you judge a character you get paralyzed on how to bring them to life through costume in new and interesting ways  
  • Denim: it's all about finding the right wash and the right fit for your body. It's iconic and can be dressed up or down and used as the foundation of any outfit. TIP: Take in a ton of different sizes in the fitting room, sizes may vary from to fit to fit when it comes to denim