Paul Costelloe LFW

It feels like no time at all has passed since last September, but London Fashion Week is once again upon us. I was honoured to again walk in the beautiful Paul Costelloe show - a firm favourite of mine. His shows are always a pleasure to walk in, with absolutely gorgeous clothes, a lovely team backstage (making up the designing team, dressers, make up, hair etc!), incredible locations and generally lots of fun. 

I think this is my favourite place I've ever had a show - the Waldorf Hilton Hotel London. What used to be a grand ballroom in the 30s had been turned into our runway, emblazoned with glitz, glamour and beauty. 

The hair was done by Toni & Guy, and bouffant-ly huge again. 

It takes a LOT of backcombing - see the video below!

I loved the make up which was just kept simple with a red lip. There was lots of backstage fun...

With Paul Costelloe, who is a such a lovely man

Before suddenly the show was about to start and we were being plied with champagne for that extra sparkle in our eyes and swing in our walks!

Opening the show

Paul outdid himself with the new collection - I fell totally in love with all of my outfits, which were all insanely flattering and the usual amazing quality. Here are a couple of others I loved - 

Watch the video below to see the full show :)

A great start to LFW!

xx

Life after uni so far!

Since finishing uni, I have been non-stop working! I am taking a year out to do modeling and hopefully get lots of experience in different things to find out what it is exactly I would like to do in the future! It is so difficult when you haven't had a job to know what you want to do, so I'm very lucky that I have modeling to do in the meantime whilst I figure it out :) 

The first day after my exams I had a graduate show for Rochester University, where all the final fashion graduate students showed their collections. There was three shows each with about twenty different designers, lasting for one hour each! We were definitely worked very hard!! 

Some of the clothes were pretty amazing though! 

It was held in Spitalfields church, slightly random but I think it worked (and just 15 minutes from my house so no complaints here!) 

and then some very interesting outfits such as the above! The bhurka looked incredible on the catwalk!

The next day was more graduate shows for Westminster uni, so another long day followed by castings! 

Friday was a shoot I had been looking forward to for a very long time! Asos! I am literally the laziest person ever, and shopping in London can generally be quite hectic and insane because of the sheer amount of people, so I generally do all my shopping on Asos. I went to a casting before my exams started and luckily had my first shoot for them last week, which was incredible :) 

By the most amazing stroke of luck ever, it happened to be the day of their office sample sale (once a month) - a room full of asos clothes in my size, priced between £1-3!!! It was pure heaven  and also a mad dash around in my lunch hour to try and buy as much as I could with the cash I had on me! I returned to the shoot one happy model :) Everyone that worked there was lovely and I had the best day ever. 

This was my treat for finishing exams (and uni!) - not sure how I have lived without an ipad before now! Good luck if you still have exams, they will be over soon and Summer will be here! xxx