Bridie joins London's fashionistas

London Fashion Week - wow!

http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/

My company had some spare tickets for a corporate event at London Fashion Week this week and lucky 'ol me got an invite. Held at the National History Museum, my first reaction was..."a bunch of skeletons surrounded by a bunch of skeletons!". Unfortunately the event was held in a marquee on the grounds of the Museum - but I wasn't wrong about the other bunch of skeletons.

Yow! To see those young, emaciated, underfed stick insects trying to sell high fashion - it's enough to put me off diets!

When you see these shows in magazines and on TV, the models don't tend to wear bras (unless it's a lingerie show) and there is often 'bits' sticking out - the models usually seem pretty poised and cool about it. However, there was one model at the show I saw that wasn't so 'cool' about exposing her breasts - she kept readjusting her outfit all the way up and down the catwalk - and I wasn't the only one noticing!

The catwalk show we saw was actually really cool - I'm not a huge fan of some of the concept fashion that gets paraded in these types of shows (I've only ever seen photos before), but the designer's work we saw was really great. Lots of natural fabrics and muted tones. We saw Bora Aksu's show - he's Turkish born, but studied fashion in London - and you could see his cultural influences in his work. Here's a link to his site:

http://www.boraaksu.com/

The show we saw was for Spring/Summer 2006 and the last I checked that wasn't on his site, but you can see his other collections.

The whole 'corporate' thing was pretty grand - Moet champagne, lunch by one of London's premiere restaurants (Le Caprice) and a goody bag filled with product (guzzini espresso maker, coffee, hair and body care, magazines - woo hoo).

This weekend is 'London Fashion Weekend' - where a lot of the designers and top retailers sell their samples to the public at drastically reduced prices. The goody bag provided free tickets - so I'm off tomorrow with a friend and Steve's desperately trying to hide my credit card!