When I was in Houston last week, my D Mike sent me an email to say that his work colleague had managed to get hold of two tickets for us to go and see the Viktor and Rolf Fashion Show in Paris.
You recall that at the end of last year Sigrid and I went to visit their amazing studio, well Lisa one of the key designers for the V&R brand managed to get us tickets to see the live show.
We took the Eurostar out from London on Friday evening, and found a hotel close to the Champs Lysees so that we were close to the Jardin Des Tuileries where the event was to be staged.
The Venue was a huge marquee in the Jardin Des Tuileries and when we arrived there were crowds of people, that grew and grew as we got closer to the entrance time. As this was the first time we had ever been to an event like this, we were a little unsure what was happening, but every now and again all the many photographers clustered into groups and were frantically taking photographs and while we didn't necessarily recognise everyone, some were famous models or actresses such as Jessica Chastain who caused a mad flurry, or people like Nina Garcia (Project Runway) and Yolanda Sacristan, the editor-in-chief of Spanish vogue.
There were many people dressed in all sorts of weird or wonderful clothes - I guess some of these people were characters in their own right, but sadly we didn't know them as well as the photographers seemed to as this was our first foray, but hopefully not the last into the world of fashion.
Here are some shots we took while we were waiting to go into the show, which incidentally was over and done with in approximately 10-15 minutes!!!!!
I took a video of the finale but click here for some much better close-ups of the fashions we saw. Some of the beautiful white shirts, Sigrid and I saw at the end of last year as work in progress, made it to the runway, so it was wonderful to see them in their final form.
In the photo collection above, you can see a copy of our entrance tickets, and Nina Garcia's seat tag, which I picked up before it was put in the bin with all the others.................
This was a really frantic time for Lisa, but she came out and saw us briefly after the show, and informed us that they had been working all through the night until 6am on the day of the show, and that she had only had 1 hour's sleep before heading back to the prepare for the show. Mike and I were with her fiancee Anthony, which is how we were so fortunate to get this invite in the first place.
Lisa was one of the key people for this collection, and was eager to see the reviews for the show, which I am delighted to say were all very positive.
Congratulations Lisa, and good luck for future collections and Mike and I will be delighted to attend again we had a great weekend, a real treat.
We are back in London now, and back to reality - work tomorrow, however we did go wedding ring shopping. I have chosen my ring, but they need to make it, and we have bought Mike's ring so that is another job off the list.
Hope you have all had a good week. Catch you later...........................
