London Fashion Week

This week saw the return of London Fashion week when not a day passes without them talking about the fashion trends of the moment. Watching the catwalks on television was as close as I ever got. But for the past couple of years I have thankfully been invited by Neil & Jasper to view his latest fabulous collection.

You may recall Jasper Garvida who won Project Catwalk in the UK a couple of years ago. He is my good friend, Neil’s, partner, and as such I get an invite on occasion to go and view his latest collection as part of London Fashion Week.

The invites arrived in the week and I had invited Steph and her son Alex who is currently studying fashion. They arrived in a taxi about 10 minutes after I arrived at the venue. The Masonic Grand Lodge near Holborn. We stood outside for not more than a couple of minutes when one of the ushers asked if anyone had tickets. I was quite surprised that we were the only ones holding tickets and how few followed us through to the hall where we were asked to wait for a short while. It was an elegant ornate hall with intricate detail. Two televisions played London Fashion Week news and a glass cabinet held a dress on the far side.

Within five minutes we were ushered through to the catwalk. Our tickets being those with the green dot, meant we were ushered to some of the best seats, right in the middle of the catwalk. As the room filled I felt like I was Ugly Betty. No not unattractive but completely alien to these people whom to, fashion was everything.
Rarely do you see so many attractive people in the same room. Yet also so many fashion faux pars. But like I say, what would I know? It’s the gay gene I lack. The fashion & interior design one. No one has it all eh?

It was more than fifteen minutes after the scheduled start time that the show, sponsored by Miele , started. The lights dimmed, the sound of the music, provided by Alex Baker, boomed and the models made their way, dressed in Garvida , down the catwalk. His catwalk to me has Aztec tones and shades of Brown, Pink, Purple, Gold & Silver. All of the models wore bobs in white or pink, which to me, looked like a candy floss. I was tempted to buy one and stick it to my shaved head. Huh, howeasy is fashion to me .

Jaspers collection was amazing and the audience seemed to appreciate it. I really hope this is the one that kicks off the sales and he can really make it into his dream. In the mean time thanks to Neil & Jasper for the tickets and thanks to Steph & Alex for coming with me.

We ended up at Belgo’s for dinner and was home by 1030. Happy London Fashion Week!