Fashion with a giant mirror tilting in a little at the end so you could see the models as they walked back. We got seated in the 2nd row – can you believe that? Before the show started there were photographers taking pictures of famous people in the front row just in front of us, and I photo-bombed every picture I could. So if you see me on the cover of the next issue of Vogue, don’t be surprised! The show was for Paris-based designer Pascal Millet. As the music started, the first model descended onto the runway. She looked right out of a commercial with a still face, perfect make-up, and a fairly weird hairstyle – a bun with 2 strands of hair flowing out of it and 1 strand of hair coming over the top. The clothes were mostly black, grey and white dresses. The one exception to this was one outfit where the model had feathers in her dress, shoes and hair, and the whole outfit was bright red. This show was called a Ready-To-Wear show, which means that the designer is actually going to sell the clothes in stores the way we see it on the runway. They are definitely super high-end clothes and if you saw them in a store, the store would be very fancy, and the items would be very expensive. I would probably wear those to anything really fancy like a sit-down dinner or a party. Or maybe if I was invited to meet someone famous like the President, a celebrity, or the Queen of England. At the end of the runway, there was a huge herd of photographers trying to get a good photo. If you looked at that herd you wouldn’t see one speck of human face, you would only see cameras and lights flashing. You could tell
that there will be at least a few photos of those models looking amazing. It was awesome. From our seats, I could see every single model. At the end of the show was the Grand Finale, where all the models line up and do one big walk down the runway together. Everyone claps and then the designer comes out and waves to the crowd. After that I got to take a selfie right in front of where models posed for pictures before the show. Overall I’d say it was a really, really cool experience. Closer to home, I saw a fashion show in Woodstock for Fashion Night at the Byrdcliffe Barn. It featured models wearing clothes from a bunch of local stores and boutiques, including my parent’s and Grandparent’s stores – DIG, Woodstock Design, and Woodstock Trading Post. The setting was an old wood barn that is part of a theatre and artist colony called Byrdcliffe. There were rows of chairs and when we got there, almost everyone had saved seats for their friends with the little program booklet you got when you walked in the door, so we wound up sitting in the fourth row. The runway was set up in the middle of the room, and was also made of wood. Before the show, there was a lot of food, even chocolate mousse! When the show started, they would announce the name of the model and the store he/she was modeling for. A lot of the models walked more than once and wore more than one outfit. The models were all ages, from teenagers to people who are friends with my Grandma. They played a variety of different music from “Applause” by Lady Gaga to “Aquarius” from Hair. At the very end, all the models came out in a line wearing the last item of clothing they modeled for a big finale. It really was a true Ready-to-Wear show, because the clothes were already in the stores, and you knew exactly which store to buy them in!
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