Clothes Show Live 2008
The clothes show live 2008 was once again a very long day. Mr Ho drove us both to the NEC in Birmingham. We started at about 7.30 am on the Saturday morning. We were very fortunate to arrive a little later and were pleasently surprised at how close we were able to park.
Apart from the main Fashion Theatre show there were two other main catwalks at the event. Andrew and I were fortunate to catch nearly all the student designers shows and a couple of chances to photograph the main designer catwalk, sponsored by Motorola this year.
Perhaps it was the credit crunch – don’t get me wrong the main designer catwalk had designs from the likes of Galliano, Burberry and Dolce & Gabbana, and it was a 35 minute show repeated on the hour every hour. The difference with the show in 2007 was that there was only the single show.
I was fascinated by the heel-less high heal shoes that the models were wearing in thee Galliano section of the catwalk show – and it was quite by accident that I noticed them in one of the final times I watched/photographed the show. It was only after a few moments on the Internet once I returned home that I realised that Victoria Beckham had worn a pair boots with this particular style of shoe at the launch of her fragrance with David.
Some of the garments shown on the designer catwalk were weird to say the least but had a modernist and slightly bladerunner weird about them, but on the same coin interesting and unique in both shape form and materials used.
