Guerilla Fashion Show: one crazy day

Ah! What a day. What a crazy day.

Started off well enough. Packed and out of the door by 11am. Begin prep work around 12noon then it all kicked off.

The amazing Amy Prifti and Kate Bishop arrived with the magnificent hair pieces they had prepared in a crazed two nights hard labour. All wigs were generously donated by Annabella's Wigs, for which I am very grateful. Then my first models Sian Fann and Gabriella Tavani turn up for their transformation. Shortly followed by Sarah Vickery, make up artist and then we begin.

At this point I was till sewing, there's nothing like pressure when there is a show to do.

The on to the venue to check when rehearsal is, that the music CD I burned actually works in a machine other than my own. It does, thank hell! I get back to the prep work and BOOM! One of my lovely make up artists, and best friends, is in floods of tears from emotional stress and one of my models drops out because of illness. Things were starting to get much more stressful. And time if running out.

Ever the pragmatist, surrounded by what remains of an astoundingly amazing team we crack on undaunted. With further models Yolanda Carella, Alice Hayward and Dolly Diamond.

When we finally arrive at the club at 5pm, it is mayhem. But we were ready, and after what felt like an age we were up and finally getting to do what we went to do. And we totally rocked it!

Here are some of the photo's that have turned up on facebook so far, the following photo's were taken by Warren Theophilus...

Getting back into fashion....

Well! Now I'm not the sort of girl to hang around when it comes to work, but I have truely thrown myself i at the deep end!

Pasha Du Valentine, fabulous artist and director of Goddamn Media, has organised a Guerilla Fashion Event in my home town of Brighton in September. Well one must do it of course!

There is no theme, the only stipulaution being that the garments must have been made in the last month run up to the show, even if we end up using staples and gaffa tape on the models! The fashion show line up so far is very exciting ranging from taxidermy to knitwear. I have also heard in the past few days that we have got sponsorship from Irregular Choice for the show. How exciting.

I have decided that instead of bringing forward my collection for next year, and to avoid rushing it, I am going to take this opportunity to use up some of the fabric I have bumdled under the workbench over the years from projects past and projects unstarted. And I am going to make some of the things that hav been rattling around my head for a while that have had no specific place in any collection.

This work is going to be just for me and my whim, truly Guerilla for a fashion designer!

And here is my starting point....natural denim, leather, embroidery, topstitching gorgeousness. I will not be posting final pieces but I am very excited about this show so you will be seeing sneaky peakies as I only have 3 weeks to complete the work.

Off we go!