My last rant about fashion I feel was rather deep. I do understand why people don't take it too seriously, because it is fun to experiment with your clothes and even if you dress a bit off-beat I'm pretty sure your friends won't abandon you. Even if you wear wife beaters. Cos that's pushing it. Seriously.
It's a shame people dozily flick through glossy magazines, and at their photoshoots, and their eyes glaze over at the gasp of the prices/the make up/the location. Because it's a lot of hard work. I'm not speaking as if I am the creative director of Vogue or anything, but even being the little body, it's a lot of work to multi-task with.
I've just got back off a 3 day shoot in Shoreditch (Dunston Street, off Kingsland road which by the way is like the world's LONGEST road) On this particular shoot there was 7 of us. Myself and Harriet; the fashion assistant, Natalie Hartley our Senior Fashion Editor, Toby Hudson the photographer and his assistant (I'm really bad with names), Tamara the model and the hair and make-up guy(Like its almost a problem that needs addressing. 3 times he told me. THREE.)We shot in Studio 2 of Street Studios which I thought was quite a nice little set up.
We had a really big open space with large windows, a mac wired up to surround sound to blare out Tom's ipod (artists of choice consisted of Kasabian, Kings of Leon, Florence, Oasis, Kooks, Rolling Stones, Jamie T, Outkast, Strokes etc etccc) we had one of those really lush 'L' shaped sofas with a coffee table to eat our hot croissants off every morning,(I was a croissant virgin before. Not anymore), a long table so we could eat our Tesco's finest lunch off of, , a dressing room for Tamara, two toilets, a massive kitchen and a sort of make shift balcony so Harriet, Natalie and I could pop out for quick cigarette breaks.
I was quite impressed. It was everything we needed. Apparently not according to Harriet who labelled it 'a bit budget'
--(however she has been on some rather impressive shoots abroad so I don't blame her).
Between us fashion lot we had about 40 hanging bags, 3 suitcases, 2 trunks and what seemed like about 100 carrier bags. These bags were bursting with jewellery, hats, scarfs, belts, socks, tops, dresses, coats, skirts, shorts, jackets, dungarees and then some. Phew. All for 6 different looks within 6 different themes. Keep up.
Natalie is pretty impressive. Obviously. She has been at Style for a few years now and is probably one of the coolest people I've met in fashion (and no I'm no brown noser). She dresses effortlessly. And I mean like she doesn't give a fuck about fashion but looks cool. And I mean cool. Not like double-take cool, like
(Told you)The shoot was fun. It was good experience and it was exciting. I got to see how a professional shoot works- most importantly and I also got to hear some pretty amazing stories into the life of people in fashion. I'm not divulging into the details but all you need to know is this.
1. You wish you could be a fly on the wall at the Sonia Rykiel show at Fashion Week
2. You would give your left arm to be a model at Sonia Rykiel
2. Charlize Theron is a bit of a madam
3. Tim Walker needs to gain momentum
Tomorrow however it is back to the office to confirm Fashion Week invites for our Editors and such. Which means back to having a phone so close to my face all the time it may as well be glued on. And no, we don't believe in handsets. BYE.
THAT IS ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.
PS. As much as it seems like I'm on the verge of starting 'the Natalie Hartley appreciation society' Check out her website http://www.nataliehartley.co.uk/ to see her styling ability......
NOW WHO WANTS TO JOIN?
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