Yesterday I finally had the chance to attend the highly anticipated Vogue Fashion’s Night Out in London. Shops were opened late in the evening to welcome its guests for a night filled with music, canapés, flowing champagne and freebies. Ok, well that might be a slight exaggeration. It wasn’t like that everywhere but there was definitely a crowd at the Mulberry store on New Bond Street, where the official Vogue Fashion’s Night Out Party was taking place. If you were patient lucky enough to overcome the crowd, you were in for a treat. Among the attendees were some of fashion’s big names such as Manolo Blahnik, Christopher Kane, Matthew Williamson. We came there rather late so we decided to move along to other stores instead.

Among the stores that we visited was Burberry, where we spotted familiar faces such as some cast member of Made in Chelsea. Cocktails and champagne were available but in limited quantity. As soon as the waiters walked out of the kitchen area, people just jumped onto them and snatched all the drinks off their hands – classy.

Cruising down Bond Street, you couldn’t help but notice how people came there in their best attires, flaunting their designer cocktail dresses, embellished from head to toe with branded goods. It was a pretty amazing experience, getting to see what people were wearing. At every corner, there would be some runway model or socialite in their towering heels and couture dresses being chased by paparazzi’s. A lot of the people there just seemed to be whether tall, skinny, good looking or exquisitely well dressed and filthy rich…and then there are the few that just ticked all of the boxes… sigh.

Amidst the crowd of supermodels, some of the best dressed must be this group of Middle Eastern ladies, that I spotted on the streets. They were dressed really conservatively but you could just feel wealth radiating from them, with their impeccable make up, exquisite garments and bulky bodyguards protecting them from the crowd. Oh how much I miss living in the Middle East!

Many of the designers and brands were showcasing their new collections and I certainly had a lot of fun, staring at things that I could not allow myself to afford with my student budget! But hey, FNO isn’t all about the shopping. Along the streets were numerous ‘designer’ food stands, popcorn, ice cream, hot chocolate, to name a few. Various performances were also taking place throughout the night. In front of Hermès was this stage where the performers would teach the audience how to do the swing dance. When I discovered that the Vaccines were in the charge of the music at the Mulberry party… you can’t imagine how gutted I was for not being there! A little bit further, was the Samsung stage with performances by Alunageorge ( at the time when I was there).

As we were about to leave, I noticed that at the Samsung Galaxy booth, next to the stage, someone was doing live sketches on Samsung Note tablets and I couldn’t believe my eyes, it was Jason Brooks! I was a bit star-strucked so as I approached to say hi, for some weird reason, my broken fobby English HAD to come out… The words that came out of my mouth were literally “Hello! You’re Jason Brooks!! Nice to meet you, I’m very big fan!! Thank you thank you!” – Oh how embarrassing! After a very long wait, I finally managed to get sketched. I felt a bit guilty because I was the second to last person there and the poor man had been sitting there for almost 5 hours, hungry and tired, having to sketch random people. Getting to meet an artist that you admire was amazing enough, getting sketched by him was just (an awesome) plus!

This was definitely a great first Fashion’s Night Out. Arriving on Bond Street was like entering in an alternate world, full of really well dressed people, what a feast to the eyes. If I have the chance, I will definitely return the upcoming years.

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