So the Paris Fashion Week for winter 2012 is just about to come to a close. Aside from London, Milan and New York, Paris is one of the ‘big four’ fashion shows ans brings with it all the baggage and drama that one would expect. It’s been a great event so far with sparkling shows from the likes of Sarah Burton, Paul Smith, Louis Vuitton and the like.
But you can read about the business end of the fashion show anywhere else online; what we’re interested in is the less reported and arguably more interesting stories from the past couple of weeks.
‘Hellish’ and ‘disaster’ were two of the words used to describe the predicament of of some of the U.K’s foremost models on Monday when the Eurostar was held up by heavy snow. The snow, which fell in Northern France, brought down power lines which meant that the Eurostar ground to a halt. Fortunately the twittersphere was alive with the painful tweets of the poor darlings who informed us that the worst hit had to spend around 11 hours with nothing more that ‘cheese and ham toasties’.
Eurostar in the snow
We know that Kanye West has been working on his ‘collection’ for some time but Paris was the first opportunity we had to check it out. It was a fairly late affair and not the most well attended show we’ve ever seen. Those who were in attendance seemed to be mainly celebrity mates of West such as Alicia Keyes, Jay Z and Kim Kardashian. The clothes? OK, but must do better next time.
Kanye West in Paris
We saw what might be seen as the unfortunate continuation of a disturbing trend – that of model Brad Kroenig’s young son Hudson strutting his stuff up and down the catwalk. It first happened at Chanel’s 2011 Spring show when Hudson was just two years old and since then he has been in some demand amongst those magazines looking for something different.
Hudson Kroenig
