Exactly a week ago I was lucky enough to have the opportunity through school to go to one of the biggest model competitions in the UK and watch the finals. It is an event run by the wonderful Geoff Cox who is the show producer/ director and we were all invited as VIP's which was pretty snazzy and very cool! It was all to help get experience off what a fashion show is like because Geoff has kindly agreed to help my school run our very own fashion show which I am so excited about and I am very grateful for because it's such a once in a lifetime experience! He is going to be giving us professional help and I generally can't believe how lucky I am to be involved in this huge project at school. Of course it's going to be challenging at times but I think this trip has really inspired us all to get stuck in straight away!
After having the stress and drama of 'OMG WHAT DO I WEAR?' I settled for my jumpsuit with a sensible pair of heels and my black blazer. We set off on the coach all looking very formal and we were in London at the event in no time. It was hosted at the London Hilton Metropole and everything was so fancy...even the toilets. ahaha.
Anyway we all had our glittery VIP wristbands on and went in fairly quickly. We watched three walks all from different designers and they were all incredible! The models were from all across the globe and before the show me and my friends and teacher choose who we thought would win from the list of names on the table. Mine was number 12 Maryna O of Ukraine and I was very happy when I saw how gorgeous she was and how amazing she was. So when she went on to winning the whole thing it made me very happy haha. I really admired all the models because they all did great and it can't be easy walking the runway in just swimwear!
I feel so lucky to have experienced something like this because I love fashion and modelling is something I am interested in. I have done some modelling which has always been fun. None of the photo shoots have ever been professional and they have mainly just been for my friends at school for their art and textiles A level work which they needed help with but I'm going to leave some of my pictures at the bottom of the page if you would like to have a look at a few.
To end I just want to say a massive thank you to Geoff and my school because I feel so grateful to have this opportunity and I truly cant wait to run our own fashion show!
