While sadly missing the Grammy Awards in LA on the 31st I was on a very long stupid flight to Milan.  After, the wonderful Delta airlines lost a carry on bag. that had all of my coats in it.  I arrived in freezing Milan. I have not seen snow in nearly 2 years, it’s kind of  scary.

I had a couple photo shoots and meeting between Milan and Rome.  Italians are fairly easy to work with however flaky at times.  I had a bit of a language barrier as I don’t speak a word of Italian but I can read it for some reason.  It was a bit to cold to shoot outdoors in Italy.  My indoor shots were a great a experience as I don’t have to freeze and work at the same time.  Returning in warmer months is a possibility.  I met some cool people and Italian fashion is great, after all they did give us Dolce and Gabanna and Gucci.

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New Shopping Addiction Page

Recently, I have been devising ways to expand RachelMullins.com.  I’m adding a new content page dedicated to my shopping addiction.

And if you haven’t already noticed, I just updated my portfolio page on my main site.

There will be TONS of videos and pictures of my global shopping endeavors.  I’m trying to come up with some sort of a label game.  Links to my online auctions for my shopping finds and my gently used award show attire.  I’m trying to get this new page together to be just as functional as my modeling advice blog.  I’m learning  the editing software for my new video camera. My goal for the shopping page overall is to post weekly and bi-weekly videos of my shopping adventures.  Including shopping for travel, shopping while I’m traveling, buying award show evening wear and my everyday shopping addiction.

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In my book there are 2 seasons.  Award Show season and House Party Season.  Naturally,  I excel in both environments.  The Emmy awards in September are the preview of whats to come for the rest of award show season.  For some reason this year has been a challenge for the event planners.  All of the dates for award shows have been overlapping and running together, like a bad marble cake.  The prime time Emmy’s and  The VMA’s were originally slated for the same night but the Emmys backed down because MTV had Kanye West do their dirty work with little Taylor Swift playing along.  January 2010 is the holy grail of award shows.

The start of this madness is the Peoples Choice awards on Jan 6th.  I will not be attending the People Choice because I can’t make it to the carpet by 4.  If you with to go, tickets are available to the public at www.ticketmaster.com However I will be attending the premier of Youth & Revolt at the Mann Chinese Theater in Hollywood.  Of course I will be at the after parties for both the award show and the premier.

Fallowed by The 15th Annual Critic Choice Awards, January 15th.  I had an absolute blast at the after party for the critic choice awards last year.  It was one of the great nights that still a little bit fuzzy.  Critic Choice is one of my top favorites because its a small elite award show and only the best of the best come through for a killer after party.

2 Days later the Super Sexy Golden Globes with be broadcasting live to both coasts from the Beverly Hilton.  I hope they clean the place up before then because I was there for an Oscar benefit last year and it needed some work and the food was terrible.

Jan 23rd,  we have the oh so prestigious Sag Awards.  If your a SAG member you can get tickets.  If not then good luck.  Maybe I should joining before then???  Anyway the Shrine Auditorium is kinda small. BET usually uses the Shrine for their events because its a cheaper venue.  This event was slated for Jan 31st but again those damn party planners can’t get together to see what everybodies soiree calendar looks like.

The Grammy Awards won the battle for January 31st sadly I will be in Milan mourning the fact that I can’t get back to my 3rd row center seats that I had last year.  I guess Carrie Underwood wont have trouble seeing around my huge dress this year and I wont miss Soulja Boy and his anticks at the Grammy gifting suite

The Sundance Film Festival is also the last week of January in Park City, Utah.  I may slide through there for the first weekend to say hello to some friends and do some ice skating..

Academy Awards on  March 27th at Kodak in Hollywood is late this year because of the Olympics Broadcast.  The road to the Oscars this year will be a long one. Then a drunken road to Vanity Fair that night for the conclusion of 2010 award show season.  This leads into house party season because Prince and Elton Jon have the do all be all of house parties on Oscar night..  Hopefully everybody will be on pointe about who they let in  because nobody wants to get shut down like the Slumdog party did last year.

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I haven’t been blogging so much as I have had to keep tight lipped on some recent events.  I have just completed the filming stage of a project I have been working on for about 6 months.  After the airing of Shopping Addicts on the WE channel I gave this new project my full attention.  Keeping in touch with the Executive Producer of Secret Lives of Women for a year.  Her and I had been kicking around ideas to elaborate on Shopping addicts.  As I do have an addiction to fashion that I love this had made great sense to me.  My designer friends and clients have been such a great support to my little project and my biggest cheerleaders.  My publicist has also been a great help in the behind the scenes efforts to make this vision come to fruition.  I’m very pleased with the outcome thus far and the final stages of post production are the home stretch.  My manager will be laying th e pathway to be able to shop the projects to the networks by the second week of January to keep ahead of pilot season.

I can’t yet say what it is but I think it will be great and if the world see’s a finished product I think it will be very helpful to many people.  I have cumniated 9 years in the fashion industry into this so with luck it will be a new take on how fashion and the real world can co exisit.

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This winter is crazy for me.  Thank god because last winter was awful.  I have been so busy working, I had 2 shoots today and a Pre American Music Awards Party.  November has flown by.  My 21st birthday came and went.  Next week is Thanksgiving and there is so much work to be done right now.  The 1st week of December I will be in Paris visiting my designer friends who are helping me with the pilot for the TV show I wrote along with various shoots and meetings.  I have been reading french Vogue and Glamour magazines to brush up on my french.  The 2nd week of December I will be filming my pilot and may headed to NYC for WWW.Iwillnotlose.org  charity gala.  I’m on a tight schedule with my pilot because I have to have it ready and packaged by the first week of January to shop to the networks.

I have 7 scripts to read. Three of which are financed other need money. So if anybody out there would like to make a 100,000,000 or 2 let me know.  All A-list cast attached to every script I have so the money will fallow soon.

January will be 100 miles a minute.  There is an award show every weekend along with Sundance Film Festival.  I can’t wait to go to Sundance this year.  Except, I’m not quite ready for the snow.  By the time spring arrives I will seriously need a vacation as I’m exhausted all ready.

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Every season GEN ART holds the Fresh Faces of Fashion in all of the GEN ART markets.  I attended the one in Los Angeles at the Automotive museum.  Several up and coming designers showcased their collections.  This is the first fashion show I have ever attended with out walking in the show.

Yendecker Los Angeles Fashion Show

I was late to the event because I was shooting for runway magazine.  However, I did see four shows.  My favorite being Rory Becca.  Her pieces were all unique but still adhered to the seasons trends.  An amazing men’s collection showed and was a very big surprise to everyone.  Tons of the crazy crazy hair and make-up.  Big crimped hair, super spiked hair, blacked out make up and super nude matte lips.  Fallowed by a not so hott after party. HUGE gift bags!! To much stuff for me to cart around.  If you ever attend a GEN ART event, get there early the parking is insane.

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Red Carpet for LA Confidential Magazine Party

At a private estate in Bell Air, CA LA Confidential magazine hosted an amazing evening celebration of Heidi Klums latest cover.  She was so amazing looking and to be in her third trimester of her 5th pregnancy.  Heidi is an amazing model and I hope that one day I have a fraction of the talent and ambiance that she has.   I wish her and her new baby a happy and healthy start together.

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My mid party touch up by the L'oreal MUA's

The La Raza Awards honor Latino actors, actresses, singers and other personalities.  The after party was held at Royce Hall at UCLA in Santa Monica and was mouy fabuloso!! Thanks to Eva Longoria’s spokesman-ship for L’Oreal Paris there were two make up artist touching up all the patrons with copious amounts of make up.  They gave me a great touch up and 3 shades of their new “ 6 hour infallible lip plumber” and a big fat tube of mascara.

L'Oreal make up table

All of the Hispanic community was in attendance, Pitbull, Eva Longoria, George Lopez, Christina Agulara, David Archuletta, Kat DeLuna, Demi Lavato and a few others.  I love the Spanish influence in the evening gowns lots of bright colored silk and everything that sparkles.  The actual awards a very very heavy.  I was able to hold one and that gold lady statue could double as a weapon.

La Raza Awards After Party at Royce Hall

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Rachel Mullins at the BET Music Producers Ball

This weekend was a whirlwind starting Thursday with the Transformers Fashion Party held Vice nightclub on Hollywood.  After that Imade an appearance at sky-bar and Area.  Area as always held a nice party with not so nice door men.  Even from stopping at the gas station you could tell it was the preamble to BET Award weekend. 

Friday was much more laid back but Saturday was CRAZY.  It’s quite a challenge to party hop in L.A. The traffic and crowds are always a pain to deal with.  The first stop of the night was to the Music Producers Ball in Downtown LA.  They had a nice set up with a great DJ and of course a tribute to Micheal Jackson.  The red carpet was small but useful.  REDbull was a sponsor and have great promo gifts like cool glow sticks for drinks.  I felt like I was at a Detroit party again but the place had walls and tables.  I started to feel a bit nostalgic. 

After a hot minute there we headed over to P. Diddy’s party at MY HOUSE nightclub on Hollywood.  The crowd was crazy and its a big place.  It pays to be on the owners guest list for sure.   100’s of people waiting outside surrounding the place trying to get in.  On the way in we ran into Gorilla Zo and his homies. As it was already 130 when we showed up we left quickly to get a jump on the after party.

The after party was a private party at a huge house in the Hollywood hills.  STUNNA liquor held this exclusive bash and did it well.  There had all kinds of new flavors of alcohol to try.  ALLHIPHOP.COM was there to document the evening.  I think that party was my favorite through the night.  I’m not one to drink often if at all and thair drinks were fabablous. 

After all of that I poured myself into bed around 5 and got up the next morning for brunch at the 4 Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills with my friend April.  They had a great spread of all different types of things to eat.  There omlet and salad seceltion were my favoirte and their 101 desearts with geogous.  The bloody mary bar looked to be the most popular thing there.  Seating was great and we ran into Forrest Whitaker who sat next to us.

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Main Tent at KandyLand Party at The Playboy Mansion

Last night the Karma Foundation held their KandyLand party at The Playboy mansion.  There had to be well over 1,000 people there.  The whole night was shoulder to shoulder.  Any of the bars was impossible to get a drink from.   Everybody who attended was pretty well dressed.  All of the girls really went all out on their outfits.  There were not very many painted girls but more gogo girls than I have ever seen.  There was candy everywhere, hanging from trees, buckets of candy, trays of candy, tables of candy, umpaloompas an all.  All of the t.v.’s were looping Willy Wonka.  Rockstar Energy drink was stationed at the rock bar by the pool.  The grotto was empty for the most part.  I danced the whole time I was there.

Snoop Dogg, Too Short and DTP preforming at The Playboy Mansion

Snoop Dogg, Too $hort, and DTP preformed a few of snoops songs and a few of 50 cents.  It was amazing to see Snoop preform.  I met Snoop and his wife Chante at The Grammy awards this year.  I was sitting in the same row between Snoop and Quincy Jones.  There were a hundred girls on stage with Snoop.  I was lucky to have been dancing on a platform so I had a great POV.  All of a sudden Tom Green of all people decided that he is a rapper and jumped on stage to do part of a song with the real rappers.  I’m not much for concerts but there are some performances that you will never forget and this was one of them.

Tom Green at The Playboy Mansion

I had a great time and will probably be back to the Playboy mansion soon.   Charity is my new found passion.   Every party is different, no two are alike in any way.  Hopefully, I will be there for 4th of July.

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