The Charles Anastase show was held in the Finsbury town hall and the echoey corridors and big empty rooms reminded me of attending school drama recitals. Albeit a very cool school where Alexa and Peaches are the cliquey head girls and Suzy Menkes the stern headmistress. The show had the familiar eeriness and magic that we have come to associate with the French designer but some of the pieces did only serve to underline the point that models look good in anything, even dungarees made of sackcloth and dresses that look like duvets. And yet there were moments of outstanding beauty: a sheer pink blouse with a little white collar was my favourite piece.
And then it was on to the PPQ show where the atmosphere was raucous (probably as a result of the free drinks that everybody had been consuming since midday) and lots of young celebrities - Fearne Cotton, Leigh Lezark - sat front row. The models strutted around in colourful creations – bubblegum pink trousers, polka dot bikinis and dresses with billowy shoulders. There really was a bit of everything in this collection and it was hard not to get swept up in the excited hoopla: all cheering IT girls and complimentary cocktails. LE
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What an awesome place to have a show! I'm sure if I was at school with Alexa and Peaches they'd be the equivalent of those girls in the PE changing rooms who laughed at me when I pointed at their eyelash curlers and said 'what are they?'
Aargh! High school flashbacks!
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just adore the first outfit
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