Outfit Post : Diaries of the Last Day at LFW

The last day at London Fashion Week was a bitter sweet day. I was tired, very very tired so in a way I think a part of me was glad it was the last day. I also knew that after two days of being back in Malta I was going to miss all of this like crazy. It was also one of the best days of the whole five – it started out a bit crappy, I missed my first show – the only show at London Fashion Week that must have started on time..I arrived ten minutes late and found people already exiting..

All that followed was great though, I attended a LFW talk regarding creativity and commercialism, very distinguished panel of speakers and very interseting. I then attended the wonderful Isabel Garcia show which was amazing, the Tata Naka presentation at the Royal Academy, George Styler – so cool and the last show of all the week Hakaan Yildirim. (Individual posts on all these shows to follow sometime this week)

For the outfit story – the weather was odd the whole time I was in London, it kept switching from hot to cold and the last day started out seemingly cold but then got really really hot. I wore a jumper initially which infact got quickly removed and stored away for the evening.

The last set of photos I took inside the Catwalk Space and outside Somerset House

This outfit had a few firsts – first of all, I got to wear this beautiful tie by a company called BIBSAB, they approached me recently and sent me three of these wonderful handmade exquisite creations. The word “BIBI” means “esteemed lady” in Arabic and “Sab” is Sabah’s nickname. The ties looked beautiful online but when I opened the packaging and saw them with my own eyes, I was really impressed, the quality is top notch – Swarovski crystals, hand-embroidered sequins..I literally spent the whole day telling everyone where I got my tie from.

My skirt was also a first – a purchase from my recent trip to Riccione, it is by Fausto Puglisi who I absolutely adore for managing to combine eclectic style and fashion so wonderfully. My sweater I picked up in Florence from Dixie last March and it has since been too hot to wear in Malta. My earrings were an impulse buy the night before from H&M and soo many people complimented them that I feel they deserve a special mention..

After leaving Somerset and saying my final goodbye, I made my way to one of the highlights of the week – the FashionMonitor Beauty Lounge afterparty at the Mayfair Hotel in the Schiapparelli Suite. Now first of all this suite is all PINK and gorgeous with the largest pink bed on earth but there were also complimentary hair treatments by Nicky Clarke himself (check out his photo below), foot massages (sidenote: those are Compeed blister plasters on my foot which were a lifesaver, the masseur commented on how every girl whose feet she has massaged was wearing them lol), facials, makeup by Bare Minerals (my makeup look below), chocolate, fish and chips, frozen yoghurt, flowing prosecco and great DJs. 

It was a really great party but my night actually continued with a visit to a great bar called Sketch (which honestly has the coolest bathrooms I’ve ever seen – space pods) to finally catch up with friends who live in London…The interesting part about all of this is that I was being picked up by the taxi to get to the airport at 3 am and I hadn’t yet packed and I was working the next day…it was a looong 48 hrs basically.