I
am so uninspired at the moment, that its an effort to even write up 5
facts if hard. I have half a dozen half arsed, half written blog
posts to finish plenty of plans and I keep trying to do them and
'eh'. IT's probably because I'm stressing myself out with things such
as work and job hunting. (That's a major hint to anyone who might
want to employ me btw! )
I
am so Un-fashion but it is the start of London Fashion Week today so
here are some LFW related facts for yall!
1. The
first LFW happened in February 1984, and was organised by Annette
Worsley-Taylor and Lynne Franks. It was also the first year of the
British Fashion awards. It was held in white tents outside the
Commonwealth Institute in Kensington. In 1992 it moved to being held
in just a few rooms at the Ritz due to the recession meaning less
designers were showing. LFW main events are now held in Somerset
House, and have been there since 2009.
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| pic by Liton Ali, via Flickr |
2. In
1989 Kate Moss made her runway debut. In 1992 Alexander McQueen made
his LFW debut, 1993 saw Phillip Treacy debut, with Naomi Campbell
walking down the catwalk topless! And in 1995 Stella McCartney showed
her first collection with both Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell modelling
her designs.
3. 32,000
miles are driven by chauffeurs taking people between shows and 200,000
copies of the official LFW broadsheet, The Daily are
distributed around London. (Fashion week is not so eco friendly
then!?).
4. At
LFW SS16 approximately 30,000 espressos, 25,000 bags of Propercorn and
20,000 bottles of water were consumed.
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| via pixabay |
5. If
you're a blogger and you want to be an accredited blogger for LFW you
have to fulfil the strict criteria set by The British Fashion
Council, including having over 10,000 unique blog visitors per month,
and over 10,000 followers on social media (as well as having a high standard of fashion content and such...) and even
then there is no guarantee of accreditation. Fortunately the London
Fashion Week website does have resources for all of us mere mortals
to keep up to date with all the action.
