What with all the excitement of London Fashion Week, you may very well have missed the fact that it's also New Zealand Fashion Week. Today was the Trelise Cooper Kids' Show (no, me neither). If you think a kids' fashion show sounds kinda lame, you'd be wrong. It's just like any other show.


There were tears.


There were tantrums.


...and someone even fell over.
(This is probably the best photo I've ever seen?)





But best of all were the accessories. I want them all.

If you have chance, go and check the rest out on Getty. Some of the captions are hilarious, whoever wrote them deserves a column or something.

I'm too tired to write anything other than; Danielle Scutt's collection was really good. I liked it. Only interesting show in London since Luella. The end. Ughhhh.

Hasbro are celebrating the 25th anniversary My Little Pony with The My Little Pony Project: 25 Ponies for 25 Years. Basically a bunch of cool designer-y types have given the pony and her pals a makeover, to varying degrees of success. Awesome!



I tried to Google the alternative lyrics to the My Little Pony song that my brother used to sing, but I can't find them anywhere, which leads me to believe that a) he made them up and, therefore, b) he's a genius.



My Little Pony, stinky and boney
Down in the stables, drinking Carling Black Label
... yeah that's all I can remember.

See the whole range here -- pics above are by (in order); Maze, Claw and Jim Houser.

Fran Cutler and Kate Moss are BFF, but this picture is still pretty lol-worthy.

Tonight my very dear friends at Toni & Guy invited me along to a very special Fashion Week event. Not your run of the mill fashion show, this was a special awards show from the good people at FAD. Long story short; kids from dodgy areas of London attend fashion classes. The most promising 22 are chosen to undertake an intensive course. They go to Barcelona, have lectures from designers, learn about every aspect of the industry, then knock out an outfit which is paraded at Fashion Week and judged by a panel of experts. The winners, uh, win a placement with a designer (as well as some mysterious item in a gold box that no-one would reveal?), everyone is fulfilled and we all learn something about ourselves and each other. End.

Not all of the outfits were to my taste, but when are they ever? It was just astounding to see the talent and creativity these kids had. In my final weeks of my fashion degree I knocked out garments with alarming regularity (T-shirt? Five minutes, it's done), but these outfits were all designed, pattern-cut, cut, toiled, made, altered, re-pattern-cut, re-cut, re-made, finished in five days. FIVE DAYS! For people that hadn't seen a sewing machine until a few months back, I high five them all highly. The garments were better made than half the stuff you see trotting down the designer catwalks (Christopher Kane, I'm looking at you with your dodgy zips and unpressed seams).

You'd have to be a total bitch to critique this event, but there you go, I'm full of bile (lol, it's OK, I jest). Nah, even I'm not that mean, but I will say this; the models were pretty poor. I know walking is a skill (no sarcasm! Model walks are tough), but these girls could barely put one foot in front of the other. New faces are new faces for a reason, but some of them were aaaawkward.

When the deserving winners were announced, even my stone-cold heart was moved, and I may or may not have squeezed out a tear or two. Or sobbed, whatevs. Magical. All the kids involved did super-well, and I really hope they go on to bigger and better (fashion-related) things. Even if not, what an experience! How many 16 year olds can say they've shown at London Fashion Week? Congrats all round, and many thanks for warming my cockles.

Oh, and sorry about the crappy pictures BTW. I'm suuuuure the catwalk looks will appear somewhere soon. I'm just too dedicated to my art to wait and write this up later lolz.