So, today I was a dresser for UCA Rochester at Graduate Fashion Week! It was amazing... Busy, frantic, stressful, everything it is suppose to be, I can't help but thrive off that environment. The models were gorgeous, and the clothes shockingly stunning!
My day:
5.30am - Woke up
6.30am - Left for Rochester
7.45am - Left Rochester (on the crazily stuffy) coach
9.45am - Arrived at Earls Court
10am - At this point we got ourselves familiar with the area we was going to be working in, we found our allocated rail, the garments to go on it and fiddled around with shoe sizes. (Shoe sizes are one of the most stressful things that I have experienced at fashion shows. Today we had size 7 models wearing size 5 shoes because there weren't any bigger to go around, talk about ouch!)
1pm - We ran through all of the outfits just before the show started at 2pm. This took a good half an hour to check they were all perfecto! In the running of this while we were going from outfit to outfit we tore the tights badly! Oooppss, luckily, they had one last pair and we didn't make the same mistake next time!
2pm - THE SHOW BEGINS! I was soo busy while the show was going on that I don't actually know how long it went on for but it went super smoothly.
No mess ups, no rips, no falls, no blisters!
It was really nerve racking because I was dressing a model in someone else's clothes and trying to make them look exactly how they wanted them too through looking at a picture and reading a few lines. If anything went out on the runway wrong it would be down to me, the designers collection may now fail.
A dressers doesn't seem that big a responsibility, but it is!
Although this was an unpaid interning experience I was assisting my own University which I feel is very supportive, also everyone was so kind, and with it only be one day it didn't cost me a lot for travel when I think about the experience and skills that I have now gained.
7.30pm - I arrived home finally. After a long long coach journey because of rush hour traffic in central London, then my journey driving home from Rochester! A long day but definitely work it!
A took a load of backstage images for ya'll to look at! A little sneaky peak of the UCA Rochester designs...
Well that's it from me in this post, hope ya'll enjoyed reading it, please comment! I have so many things I want to write about so stay tuned ;-)
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Sounds like a crazy but fun day... I can imagine the stress of getting the clothes on the models quickly and everything. Such good experience though xxx
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It was amazing day, honestly! Such fun, so hectic but thats what I love! :)
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Ah so jealous you can go to stuff like this! Thanks for the comment on my blog :)
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