Top Model Fittings! (a.k.a the day we DROVE though Piccadilly Circus)

If you wanted to describe Chris' version of hell, having to drive though the sights and sounds of London is probably pretty up there....... well, guess what we're doing bright and early on Sunday morning?! (thank you Geoff – thank you. - Chris)

It was all, we discovered, in the very worthwhile, fun and fantastic name of meeting the lovely 17 'Classics' models who will wearing GingerBread creations at the Top Model / Fashion International catwalk show on 26^th March.

The fitting session took place on Old Street in London, so cue 50 minutes of myself, Chris and a whoooole lot of hats making our way across London, and spending the second half of the journey looking in semi-horror as we drove past the likes of Harrods, The Ritz, Hyde Park, with the iconic signs at Piccadilly Circus adding the final icing on the cake of 'we sooo should not be driving through this!!!'. I think I now owe Chris a mansion for asking to drive through such testing waters.... At least it was wasn't a weekday though (mmmm, London commuter traffic.....), and other designers, models and Top Model staff had to travel much further than we did, so really we were lucky to be so close.

Being in transit anywhere near the Piccadilly Circus signs = wrong, just wrong....

Doing the fitting for the hats was amazing. As we unpacked the hats in preparation for it, lots of people - models, other designers, TM staff – were really kind in their enthusiasm and compliments for the hats – thank you guys!! The 17 Classics models were all utterly gorgeous, and it was great fun and a real privilege to be asking them to wear the GingerBread hats. There was a range of looks across the models, which worked out perfectly with the range of hat styles we had brought. Chris was also totally on form helping match up models to hats (and also discovered the Top Model official photographer is an exact clone of our good friend Steve!....).

A couple of other designers were also at the fitting session, so we got to see sneak peaks of what they will be showing. The outfits were beautiful!! We spotted glamorous evening gowns by Frank Usher, amazing detailed garments by Courting Lily, along with gorgeous, slinky wedding dresses.

I also need to give a lot of gratitude to Geoff and his Top Model team. They ran the fitting sessions (and all the preparation for the event so far!) extremely well, were really helpful, friendly and of course we wouldn't be doing any of if it wasn't for them!!

The day has got us looking forward to the big show itself even more – bring on the 26^th!!

Ange x