London Fashion Week!

I'm really pleased I had the opportunity to go to London Fashion Week and is something I feel I have benefited from and can add to my CV. It was really amazing to be able actually watch some of the shows and to see all the designers exhibitions and I found it really interesting just watching everyone at the show and especially what they were wearing and how different they all seemed from normal everyday people! I found dressing backstage the most beneficial as it gave us all a bit of pressure, using our own initiative and being under a strict deadline. We were each given one model per person, and most of the shows had 3 dress changes, and as were under a huge amount of pressure to change each outfit within a few seconds, but I found this really fun.
The majority of the time we spent there was a lot of setting up, moving manikin's and general lifting of boxes and taking rubbish back to the loading bay. As we were there most days from half 9am till 10 pm and somedays 12 with 1-2 hours backstage and the rest setting up, I think next year more information about how long you would be there each day and the fact you weren't really able to have set breaks to go out and each something a bit more substantial other than snacks, I felt this should have been mentioned so were fully aware. The image above is from Ramon Gurillo's collection. Most of the garments were knitted and very delicate so we had to be really careful which made us all a lot more under pressure as it was also the first show we dressed for!