When our story left off, I had worked the Renegades show at Malvern Town Hall and was gearing up for Fashion Friday. My day was officially labelled ‘fun’ rather than ‘work’ so the morning consisted of running errands, getting groceries and various other domestic chores I had neglected over the week. Then I headed to Little Collins Street for lunch at Café Vue – a story I will write more about next week with the fashion chapter is finished!!
Lunch was lovely then it was home to prepare for Friday nights fashion activity, L’Oreal Paris Runway 7 presented by Harpers Bazaar and featuring Akira; Easton Pearson; Fernando Frisoni; Martin Grant; Michael Angel; Scanlon and Theodore; Timothy Godbold and Tina Kalivas. My review of this show can be found at www.onyamagazine.com.
The runway show was due to commence at 6.30pm but as per usual ran fashionably late and started closer to 7pm. Of an ordinary evening this wouldn’t have bothered me but I had tickets for the 8.30pm Fashion Collections show at the Malvern Town Hall and my concerns about travel time and parking were beginning to show – I chew the inside of my lip when anxiety creeps in! The show finished surprisingly quickly, by about 7.20pm (those models walked so quickly it was hard to take notes!) and I hightailed it out of Central Pier to collect fellow volunteer Miss F from the L’Oreal Paris Powder Room and make a dash for the Malvern Town Hall.
We made excellent time despite no right hand turn signs and city traffic on a Friday night and as my luck would have it (which as you all know, it usually does!) I nabbed a car park in the allocations adjoining the town hall – a massive coup!! We arrived before 8pm and looked forward to getting a drink and settling my slightly perturbed nerves from the stress of the tight timings.
A chardonnay was collected (no champagne, FAIL) and a deep breath was taken. We munched on Raeffallos and people watched – the near capacity crowd to watch the Fashion Collections – Jeanswest – parade was mostly teens and young adults dressed in what they thought was cool but actually just came off as slightly tarty (I’m talking to you girl in the bathroom not old enough to drive but wearing a white see through mini dress cut to the navel).
We took our seats and awaited the beginning of the anticipated high energy show. Broken into three categories, the show began with a highway theme and clothes featured were edgy and street cool. Second was a country vibe with shirts and jeans while third was disco and a selection of outfits set for a night out on the town. While the styling was safe and nothing groundbreaking, the fashion was affordable and hopefully taught the girl in the white dress a thing or too about fashion.
Miss F and I snapped up an extra gift bag on the way out from the empty seats around us and headed to the door where we were tempted by the Raffaelo team giving away three packs of these yummy chocolates. In order to obtain said three pack, you had to tell them a ‘little white truth’ – it only took me about 3 seconds to confess that our extra gift bags were not for our friends in the bathroom but extras we took from empty seats around us. The team loved it, took a mobile pic and we went away with our three packs. Before you say, don’t you think you have enough gift bags this week?, know that I re-gifted the next day to the Head Dresser I have been working with this week who was unable to make it to any actual shows. Pause for collective ‘awwww, that’s sweet’.
We made it home and enjoyed microwave dinners before Miss F took up residence on the couch and I fell into bed – we both had early volunteer shifts the next morning (a 6.30am start for Miss F and 7am for me) but there was only 24 hours left of the fashion festival and we fell asleep quickly, dreaming of all things fabulous and fashionable.
Image One: L’Oreal Paris Runway 7 finale
Image Two: Jeanswest Parade at Malvern Town Hall
