Ann Demeulemeester and Balmain.

Wow.  So I had a fabulous first day of Fashion Week; of course it wasn't really the first day but I was a day late getting my arse in gear.  As mentioned my camera and I had a slightly misunderstanding which I will tell you about *takes steadying breath*...

I was just leaving the Balmain show and heading back to the metro, looked to my left and Grace Coddington was literally just standing around on the pavement, right next to me.  Just standing there, talking to someone.  And when I turned round and realised she gave me the biggest, loveliest smile like I was *gasp* an equal!  Obviously I stopped and got my camera out to ask for a picture only to find that...the battery was flat.  This may seem like an over-reaction but I honestly nearly burst into tears.  Grace is pretty much my ultimate idol and favourite person and I couldn't believe I'd messed up such an amazing opportunity.  Still, shit happens and I did get to photograph her later at Nina Ricci (I'll write all about Nina Ricci in a separate post!).

Below are just my favourite photos from the day; I took over 100 and out of these I liked 50 enough to upload them to Facebook so if you're my friend you can look at the rest on there :)  But I figured I should be a little more picky with the ones I put on here...

Ann Demeulemeester

I think this girl was photgraphing for Style Magazine.  Anyway I loved her look, she was obviously spending the entire day running between shows and I thought that the sheer skirt was great with the leather jacket and chunky boots (you can't see them in the picture...).  Also, anyone who knows me will know I am an absolute sucker for a Chanel clutch!

The skirt had a split to the thigh which was great as it totally stopped the look going 'Frumpy Biker'.  I've had one of these skirts on my shopping list for a long time and I think after seeing one on this girl I'll have to head out and buy one!








This is the model they sent out.  I couldn't get round to the front for a pic because it was just crazy crammed with the press but I kind of like this photo :)  There was definitely a bit of a lion look going on and she kept roaring and clawing the air and giggling which was kind of funny and cute!












Balmain

I think these guys might be the coolest couple I have ever seen! What was better is that when there were no photographers they were having a right laugh and looked really happy and then as soon as there was a camera on them it was like BAM and they were cool!  They also must have smoked an entire pack of cigarettes each in the time it took for the show to finish!

I loved the girl's skirt suit.  It was a little bit Kooples but about 10,000 times more high end and individual!  She was very, very petite but the cut was perfect so it didn't swamp her at all.










This is the Balmain model.  Probably the only girl I have ever seen in the world who could mess around, pull the most stupid faces and still look impossibly beautiful!!  I was gutted not to get in to see this show because I really, really love Balmain!!














I absolutely loved what this girl was wearing.  She obviously spent her day doing the same as me because I saw her at all three shows, but her eye make-up (there's a close-up pic below) stayed perfect the whole day.  I really liked the idea of the little collar necklace and a lower cut top since an actual peter pan collar would have made the whole outfit too 'little girl'.

The picture doesn't show them too well but those boots also had an absolutely killer wedge on them which toughened the whole outfit up.

This is her eyes close up.  So pretty!













So, at this point my camera battery packed in and I had to head home to recharge it before the evening; I had a fab day though.  There were so many well-dressed people outside the shows that if I posted them all I would be blogging all night instead of getting my beauty sleep ready for Roland Mouret in the morning!  At the end of the week I'll post a best-dressed list so you can see all of the fabulous people who I've had to miss out of my daily posts.