London Fashion Week A/W 2012-13- Nails backstage report!!

 

As many of you already know, I've had a whirlwind week. WOW! Only a week ago I found out that I'd been chosen by Sweet Squared & Minx Nails to apply Minx at London Fashion Week A/W 2012 for the Vivienne Westwood and David Koma shows. A team of 5 of us were picked to work under fashion nail legend Marian Newman (50 Vogue covers to her name & 10 years working on the ad campaign for Dior) who designed all the nails for these shows as well as many others.

The whole team with Marian outside Goldsmiths Hall

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD RED LABEL COLLECTION- Sunday 19th Feb

Westwood drew inspiration from traditional Saville Row tailoring and mixed it with African style symbols painted onto the skin and boyish hair and make up styling. Hair was tightly curled and backcombed in an up-do whilst skin was covered in painted tattoos and Westwood symbols, with nails to match.

The nails designed by Marian were inspired by tribal/gang symbols and gritty textures: skateboards and gravel inspired her designs produced exclusively for Westwood by Minx. 

 

 

 

 

Photo taken by Hollie Wakeham

 

 

 

 

In typical fashion world fashion, the designs only arrived in the country a couple of days before the show, and the approval from Vivienne was not confirmed until 11.30pm the night before, after the test show, ready for a 10am call time the following day!!

However, we all arrived at the stunning Goldsmiths Hall and had a quick brief from Marian: we were instructed to mix n match the symbols and gravel Minx so that no 2 sets were the same. Soon we were hard at work squeezing between hair sylists, make up artists and huge gangs of photographers from every publication you can think of, locating and Minxing over 30 models between the 5 of us. Space was so tight that we were often working under tables at very tricky angles and with no heat lamp and NO CREASES!!

All models looked super stunning and we received so many positive comments about Marian's nails. A champagne reception allowed us to mingle with the models, backstage staff and Vivienne herself, and toast a very successful show.

David Koma photos and report to follow soon............. 

 

Complete set of nails- photo by Hollie Wakeham