Chanel Cruise Show 2012
OH my. This was a rather delicious event and only ze crème de la crème were in attendence. No media, no cameras, ZIP! This was a nice change for all the modules who were spared from being harassed backstage for photos, usually capturing us butt in the air, bending down to do up a shoe in an extremely unflattering position.
Hair and mup – rather tight squeeze for us beauties to get beautified.
Dressing room
This painfully(pain only because I had an unsettling desire to stuff EVERYTHING into my bag) wearable cruise collection, also known as resort or pre-collection, was absolutely SCRUMTIOUS. Set in the stunningVictorian Italianate style mansion, Vaucluse’s Strickland House, the talented team assisting Chanel recreated the launch of Lagerfield’s cruise collection in the French Rivieria and did a superb job.
House
For outfit number 1 I was decked out head to toe in whitelamb skin. It was strangely as soft a baby’s behind.
ME – aka lamby
Next they stuck me in a swimsuit… Never pleasant even for the trimmest of trim but nevertheless, I just hoped the aging wealth and their monocles couldn’t see far enough to spy my bikini line or the fine pastey-pastel colour of my legs.
Rachel Rutt
The revamped 90s supermodel Emma Balfour opening the show.. Damn she looks fine for having 2 kids plus the many millions of party benders that any 90s ‘heroin chic’ supermodel would of!
Vanessa Milde
Claire Collins – looking cute as a button
In a situation I do not normally find myself in, there is only one route off the property and it entails driving past the mansion’s exit to collect all the pruneysenile billionaires waiting impatiently as their Porsche remains stuck behind the Rolls that is holding up the Lamborghini that I am sandwiched (motorcycle with devil horns stuck to helmet) in between. I receive a couple of odd looks. Fair enough.)))
Done and dusted! Thank you Chanel!
David Jones 2012 Autumn/Winter
The always wonderful and never ending David Jones collection. This show has been running since the dawn of time, when models were dinosaurs (actually the models they used back then must be dinosaurs by now) and clothing may have resembled the Flintstone’s. I have been part of the David Jones troop since I was knee high to a grass hopper and although every year we models whinge and whine about being worked like grumpy cattle, it is still a great event to be involved in!
It usually begins with a horrid repetitive day of rehearsals where we models get as sloppy and feral as any good rehearsal day should be.
Vanessa Milde looking ecstatic in her outfit for Sass and Bide.
Our hair looks ‘freshly rolled out of bed’ and most of us are in clothing that some may say resembles pajamas. When you have to get naked that many times (we are talking at LEAST 50 times through out the rehearsal) the last thing you need isto rock up wearing the latest trend of super tight leather jumpsuit to impress the fashion conscious and cause yourself a day of delayed changing and extended nakedness.
Rachel Grasso
Plus when you have about 45 dressers (the little aspiring fashion students who help us get in and out of show clothing QUICK) all standing around staring at you, most likely analyzing the ugly bits of your naked behind you want to get your gear on ASAP.
Nicole
Nicole appears unimpressed with her shoe allocation.
The rehearsal is conducted to iron out any shoe problem, outfits that make models look fat, accessory issues and lighting, music and timing. Months and months of preperationis put into the finest of details for this well oiled machine to run as smoothly as possible.
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