London Fashion Week 2014 - Paul Costelloe

LFW has come around again, and this time was pleasantly not as hectic as last year. For a model, fashion week means running around the week before in heels to 10-15 castings a day, where you waiting an hour or so at each in a long line of impossibly tall, thin, beautiful girls to be seen for a minute. You walk gracefully (aka stagger along in huge heels), give a card and are usually firmly dismissed with a 'thanks for trying' look, as you watch your card disappear into the mass of  'no' pile of cards.

But there are up sides. This year I just went to a few castings around my other jobs & had the pleasure of opening Paul Costelloe's collection on the first day of LFW. Backstage was unlike most fashion week shows (hectic, shouting, stress) and actually comparatively an oasis of calm as models read books and chatted whilst getting their hair backcombed to hell and back.

My hair went on quite a journey..

Starting relatively alright

To pretty much exploding..

 

To looking Bardot-esque beautiful! (Thanks to Toni&Guy)

The make up was kept pretty & natural

Then it was showtime! Held in Simpson's on the Strand, it was a perfect location for the show with happy, floaty music (pocket full of sunshine anyone?) and structured, fifties style dresses. They were so easy to wear and absolutely beautiful!

The reason we all look so happy is because Paul Costelloe is truly a lovely, talented man who had us all dancing with him backstage and taking gulps of champagne before we walked!

What I also found really lovely is that after the show, they opened up the catwalk and had us mingle with all the people who couldn't get in to the show after waiting for over an hour. It was a really nice idea and nice to have some champagne after the show!

All the models in the show were with my agency, Profile as it was an exclusive - all their girls are so lovely!

A real pleasure to walk in this show, thank you Paul Costelloe :)

Update

I have been quite crap at updating this because of the avalanche of university which has come crashing into my life and the very difficult lack of internet I have had for basically the last month. (It was seriously hard). However all is good now as I am reconnected and have actually ventured out of my flat lately for things other than university!

Starting with work (not university work, don't speak to me about that) I have been shooting a lot for Fabulous Magazine this past week. I really like shooting for them because it is nice and easy and they always have great catering, as well as every single person being completely lovely.

I did a giant fashion-awards shoot on Monday

really really really really want this dress (everything from Miss Selfridge) but I would just buy it and hang it in my wardrobe and look at it occasionally and never wear it.

which was very fun, even though we did a lot of outfits, because I had wagamamas chicken katsu curry for lunch which is my favouritest meal ever and they had wifi at the studio, which I did not have at home (therefore I could get Revenge to watch when I got home - how weird is it getting lately?)

Then on Tuesday I did another Fabulous shoot which was in association with Debenhams (which made me very very very very very happy),  I think they are having some party with my face on it which is nice?




 and for lunch... I had chicken katsu from Wagamamas again (grilled because that made me feel a teensy bit better about my upcoming obesity). When I got home on the Monday my boyfriend had come over from Cyprus and brought me back a kebab and a Cyprus sandwich as well as a tonne of bakery food so this has not exactly been a 'healthy' week. But I started Cheerleading so its fine xox

Coincidentally my friend found this the other day

that is all for work at the moment, I have a Charles Worthington show tomorrow (which means I can't go to Cheerleading which means that all of the unhealthy food I ate this week/will eat is not cancelled out) and appaaaaarently quite an exciting one on Tuesday, but I don't want to jinx it.