The
Liverpool Fashion Week 2013 - Part 2 of 3
Report Dariya Ibrayeva and
Photograph by
P.
Trollope.
AFTER a half year break
from journalism, I finally came back to my roots and covered 2
days of Liverpool Fashion Week that took place in Royal Liver
Building over 14 October to 19 October 2013. And now I am ready
to share my experience from the show with all of you.
Let’s begin. My introduction with Liverpool Fashion Week
happened on Friday, 18 October 2013, when a slim girl in a nice
pink dress has offered me, a Russian reporter, free drink. Such
a cunning way how to tame the Russian soul. The thing is that
Lambrini was the official sponsor of this year's Liverpool
Fashion Week and all guests over 18 were provided with a glass
of light perry. But that’s not the main one. The main one is
that over that night the audience had a chance to enjoy Urban
Hipster and High Street Fashion and see collections from Off The
Stand, SBC Clothing, Internacionale, New Look, Wallis, Boux
Avenue and Mango. Overall, I should say that I enjoyed
collections and even caught myself on mind that I would wear
half of presented clothing. However, I would lie if I said that
everything was so nice and fluffy and I fully enjoyed the show.
First of all, the ventilation in the room was awful. If you were
not one of the guests and were not present at the fashion show,
just imagine a sauna and place yourself there for a couple of
hours; that will probably best
explains to you how hot and stuffy
it felt. Agree that these conditions are not the best ones for
holding a fashion show. The other thing I didn't like was the
stage (if you can call it like that). There wasn't a clear track
and models tended to wander. To be honest, it looked more like
an arrivals lounge in the airport terminal building rather than
the catwalk. On the other hand, this layout seemed to help
guests to feel closer to models and allowed to explore clothing
in more details. The other thing that might have damaged my
impression about the show were the models. There was a feeling that
for some models demonstration of clothes was a torture and they
just wanted to run away as fast as they can from the catwalk.
However, I cannot say that about all models. I would like to
highlight 3 models who, in my opinion, stood out because of
their professionalism, self confidence and ability to work with
photographers. These models are Mariam Bibi, Amy Hewitt and
Hannah Matthews!
The last day I covered was a closing night 'Scouse Proud'
that took place at the same venue on Saturday, 19
October 2013. The event gathered together many beautiful and
stylish people who came to see the brightest collections from
Kiss Couture, Spoilt Boutique, Sleek Hair, Lip Couture, Evans,
Ngolela,
City of Liverpool
College
and
Dorothy
Perkins. The
selection of clothing collections was interesting. Much
attention was gained for an American fashion designer from
Boston,
Ngolela Kabongo, who came to Liverpool to present her
outstanding collection.
Ironically, when on the last night it was finally decided to
turn air conditioning on, the power cut halfway through the
showing of Ngolela's collection. Nevertheless, this force
majeure was fixed promptly and didn’t cause too much disruption.
Summing up, I found Liverpool
Fashion Week quite successful and I am happy that not all large
fashion events are focused only on London. Well done to
all who put this event on!
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this event will be in next weeks issue. To see Part 1
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It's
Waxing Time!
"WAX on... Wax Off"
is not a reference to Mr. Miyagi and his car cleaning martial
arts training, sorry, but this time it is in reference to a
charity event the lads of Costa Coffee on Lord street,
Southport, will be participating in... Nicky and Anna from the
Goddess
Skin and
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Office Ave. Southport, will be conducting a waxing session on 6
members of the stores male staffs' legs. This will be performed
in full view of the Lord Street Costa Coffee's customers and in
the window, so clearly visible to all on the main road outside.
So keep any eye on the Coffee House on 25 October 2013, from
11am. pop in and cheer them on! "It will be running
until we have done all 6 lads legs!" the girls from
Goddess told us. So why are the lads from the store doing this?
Well it comes as a result of a collection that the lads had held
over the summer, for the firms Costa
Foundation with the
promise that if they met the collection target, they would get
their legs waxed! "Lads all you need to do is sit
back and relax... All the girls have to do is to remember to rub
the strips together and you peel... ENJOY!" one of the
female staff commented. Good luck to the lads of the
store...
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