Christian Siriano, Marie Borges and More Fashion Insiders Give Tips on Surviving Fashion Week

"Try to sleep as much as you can, try to eat healthy and stay grounded because that's most important," Daniela Braga told The Hollywood Reporter.

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00:00You've done a few fashion weeks. You have a few fashion weeks under your belt. What are your tips and tricks to surviving fashion week?

00:07You've got to be a super women. You've got to know exactly. You've got to be on time.

00:14You've got to be professional and

00:17Yeah, you've got to be you and make sure you stay hydrated always have a bottle of water with you and some snacks because

00:23sometimes fittings and all these things run a lot longer than you think they're going to and

00:29Make friends smile. I always smile at everyone backstage. Try to sleep as much as you can

00:35Try to eat healthy and you know like this is amazing. It's very glamorous

00:40We have a lot of icons here, but you know, you know who you are

00:43You know inside of you what is most important, you know if your mom or your pet or your boy or whatever

00:49You know don't like keep your I don't know how you guys say that in English like keep your hand your your feet down

00:55You stay grounded that that's why I try to say stay grounded because that's the most important

00:59And like the most thing that shine on you pick and choose wisely

01:04How did you learn how to do that?

01:07Well, when I was young and Paris and I were running around we'd love to go to everything but

01:13No, I just like to go to my friends shows. I have a lot of friends. You have a lot of fashion friends though

01:19So I'd love to go out and check out their stuff. Don't go to too much

01:24make sure you

01:27Hydrate and um, and yeah, like just I think don't overthink things I think during fashion sometimes people can overthink things and

01:33And it should just be fun. We're all here to like enjoy each other and yeah sleep as much as possible

01:39I'm like an eight to ten hours a night kind of person

01:42So if I don't get that I like cannot function so the second I'm home

01:45I'm sleeping to the last second

01:48And trying to eat proper meals and drink a lot of water just to like keep your body energy and fueled and yeah

01:55Surround yourself with people you love and have fun

01:59I mean, I keep saying we're not curing cancer although a lot of people might think we are

02:03We're really here to inspire people

02:06You know

02:08Create great visual content beautiful things wear beautiful clothing, but at the end of the day

02:13We shouldn't take it that seriously, so let's have fun with it