ON A YEAR WHEN THE QUEEN PARACHUTED OUT OF AN AIRCRAFT AT THE OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY ALONGSIDE JAMES BOND 007 (WELL, IN EFFECT….)
CELEBRATED HER DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR IN STYLE
AND WELCOMED POP STARS, CELEBRITIES, V.I.P.’S & THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE FOR A DIAMOND JUBILEE CONCERT – IT CERTAINLY BECAME A WONDERFUL YEAR!
AND THEN CAME OUR MAGNIFICENT SUMMER OF SPORT…
OUR OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC HEROES “TRIED THEIR VERY BEST” TO DELIVER FOR THEIR COUNTRY – AND DELIVER THEY CERTAINLY DID. IN A GALLANT, UNASSUMING, AND VERY GRACIOUS WAY.
BUT THE EXCITEMENT DIDN’T STOP THERE! GREAT BRITAIN, NOW SO WELL VERSED IN HOSTING SUCCESSFUL MAJOR EVENTS ALSO WENT ON TO HOST THE W.G.S.N. GLOBAL FASHION AWARDS AT THE SAVOY HOTEL IN LONDON ON NOVEMBER 5th.
W.G.S.N. GLOBAL FASHION AWARDS
RED CARPET V.I.P. ARRIVALS
RED CARPET V.I.P. ARRIVALS SEEN BELOW INCLUDED MASHA REEVA, JEREMY HACKETT, STELLA KATTERMAN (STYLE BLOGGER), JULIE DEANE (CAMBRIDGE SATCHEL CO.), JOANNE FROGGATT WEARING ISSA, ZARA MARTIN, LAURETTA ROBERTS (FOUNDER OF THE GLOBAL FASHION AWARDS), AND JULIE HARRIS (GFA’S GLOBAL MANAGING DIRECTOR), MR HUDSON, LUKE EVANS, WBROWN, PIXIE LOTT, DAISY VILLENEUVE, DONNA IDA, HILARY ALEXANDER, SUKI WATERHOUSE, BASSO & BROOKE, CHARLOTTE DELLAL, JADE PARFITT, VALENTINE FILLOL CORDIER.
WINNERS OF AWARDS ON THE NIGHT WERE BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER RANKIN, WHO SCOOPED THE HALL OF FAME AWARD, EMMA YEO, WHO WON THE AWARD FOR EMERGING DESIGNER, CHARLOTTE OLYMPIA, FOOTWEAR & ACCESSORIES DESIGNER, KIM JONES, LOUIS VUITTON FOR MENSWEAR DESIGNER, VICTORIA BECKHAM WON THE CATRICE WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER AWARD, MR PORTER WON THE BEST E-STORE, HACKETT, MENSWEAR DESIGN TEAM, TOPSHOP, WOMENSWEAR DESIGN TEAM AND ADIDAS WON SPORTS/ACTIVEWEAR DESIGN TEAM.
WGSN GLOBAL FASHION AWARD WINNERS AND AWARDS HOST CAT DEELEY LOOKING STUNNING IN WHITE
BELOW PICTURED ARE CAT DEELEY, AURORA FASHIONS’ RICHARD GRANVILLE, AURORA FASHIONS, ZARA MARTIN, ALTER SHANGHAI’S SONJA XIAO LONG, MR PORTER’S JEREMY LANGMEAD WITH GEORGE LAMB, EL PALACIO DE HIERRO’S CARLOS SALCIDO, LEVI’S COMMUTER SERIES’ JEWON YU, PIXIE LOTT, SEAFOLLY’S LUCY EVANS, ADIDAS’ KATHRYN O’BRIAN, MERCI’S STEPHANIE COHEN, WBROWN, JULIE DEANE, TOPSHOP’S DESIGN TEAM, SUKI WATERHOUSE, JEREMY HACKETT, WILL BEST, MACARONS’ VIET & JULIE KOHLHOFF, EMMA YEO WITH JULIEN MACDONALD, LYCRA FUTURE DESIGNER SHIREEKA DEVLIN, DONNA IDA, CHARLOTTE DELLAL, DAISY VILLENEUVE, VALENTINE FILLOL CORDIER, ZACH DUANE, (WHO COLLECTED VICTORIA BECKHAM’S AWARD), JOANNE FROGGATT, NADIA JONES (WHO COLLECTED KIM JONES’ AWARD), RANKIN & JADE PARFITT.
AND THEN THE BRITISH FASHION AWARDS ON NOVEMBER 27th AT THE SAVOY HOTEL IN LONDON…
THE BRITISH FASHION AWARDS NOVEMBER 27th LONDON
AS WELL AS A WHOLE HOST OF PRESTIGIOUS FILM PREMIERES, WHICH WERE HEAVING WITH HOLLYWOOD HEAVYWEIGHTS…
THE EXPENDABLES 2
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jean Claude Van Damme to name but a few…
THE SKYFALL PREMIERE, LONDON
IT WAS AN EVENING OF GLAMOUR, SPARKLE AND OODLES OF DAPPERNESS AT THE SKYFALL PREMIERE
PRINCE CHARLES & THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL MEET THE PRODUCERS OF SKYFALL, MICHAEL G. WILSON, AND BARBARA BROCCOLI
THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL ‘DAZZLED’ IN A LONG VELVET BRUCE OLDFIELD GOWN WORN WITH A DIAMOND AND AMETHYST NECKLACE
‘JAMES BOND’ DANIEL CRAIG
JUDI DENCH LOOKED STUNNING FROM EVERY ANGLE IN HER CHIC LINDY HEMMING ENSEMBLE
VICTORIA PENDLETON ‘SHONE’ IN A SILVER GOWN BY CATHERINE DEANE
BERENICE MARLOHE ‘WOWED’ IN VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
KEITH LEMON: THE FILM, LONDON
Starring Kelly Brook, Laura Aikman, Verne Troyer, Kevin Bishop, Harish Patel
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 PREMIERE, LONDON
CELEBRITIES & HOLLYWOOD A LISTERS SHONE ON THE RED CARPET AT THE PREMIERE OF “THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2″
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 PREMIERE
KRISTEN STEWART, TAYLOR LAUTNER AND ROBERT PATTINSON TOOK MUCH TIME POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND SPEAKING WITH THEIR TWILIGHT FANS AT THE PREMIERE OF THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2. (SOME OF THESE FANS WERE SO DEVOTED THAT THEY HAD SLEPT ON THE STREETS JUST FOR A QUICK GLIMPSE OF THEIR IDOLS!)
ADDITIONAL CAST MEMBERS MyANNA BURING AND JUDI SHEKONI WERE ALSO AT THE EVENT, ALONGSIDE DIRECTOR BILL CONDON. OTHER CELEBRITIES IN ATTENDANCE INCLUDED (OLYMPIC STARS) ELLIE SIMMONDS, VICTORIA PENDLETON, NICOLA ADAMS, REBECCA ADLINGTON, HELEN GLOVER, & GREG RUTHERFORD, TINCHY STRYDER, KAREN BRADY & DAUGHTER SOPHIA, JOEY ESSEX & SAM FAIERS, PEACHES GELDOF & THOMAS COHEN, LAUREN POPE, TAMARA ECCLESTONE, HARRY DERBRIDGE, CHRIS MALONEY, CONOR MAYNARD, THE SATURDAYS, UNION J, ELLA HENDERSON, JAMES ARTHUR AND MANY OTHERS….
SHADOW DANCER PREMIERE, LONDON
Pippa Middleton, James Marsh, Tom Bradby, Natasha Kaplinsky, Jon Snow, Rosamund Pike, Lynne Ramsay, Jeremy Bowen, Ian Hislop, Julie Etchingham, Alastair Stewart, John Simpson, Cathy Newman, Bill Neely, Matt Frei, were all in attendance at the Shadow Dancer Premiere in 2012, and joined the films Stars, Clive Owen, Brid Brennan, Gillian Anderson and Andrea Riseborough on the Red Carpet at the Haymarket Cineworld on August 13th. Andrea Riseborough and Brid Brennan won the ‘Best Performance in a British Film’ Award at the 66th Annual Edinburgh Internation Film Festival in June.
ON THE FASHION SIDE, LONDON FASHION WEEK WAS FANTASTIC AND SHOWCASED SUPERB TALENT FROM DESIGNERS, BOTH EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED (AS FEATURED IN THE SLIDESHOWS ABOVE), AND IT IS SAID THAT GRADUATE FASHION WEEK WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IT HAS BEEN FOR 21 YEARS!
Celebrities attending the event included Livia Firth, Caroline Flack, Bip Ling, Zara Martin, and the stunning Michelle Mone (who had a lovely smile for each and every camera – is it any wonder that this lady is so successful?), plus Matthew Williamson and the beautiful Daphne Guinness (it’s clear these two are great friends. Daphne couldn’t seem to keep a straight face with Matthew around…)
GRADUATE FASHION WEEK – AWARDS PRESENTATIONS
Celebrity judges and presenters included Julien Macdonald, Michelle Mone, Matthew Williamson, Mary Katrantzou, Suzy Menkes, Fiona Lambert of George, Daphne Guinness, Bip Ling, Jefferson Hack, Daisy Lowe, Mark Fast, David Koma, Caroline Flack, Louise Redknapp, Jeff Banks and of course, the lovely GFW hostess Caryn Franklin (among many others)
On the stage with Chloe were Suzy Menkes (who is the Herald Tribune’s Fashion Editor), Daphne Guinness, and Fiona Lambert (who is George’s Brand Director)
THE WINNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS GRADUATE FASHION WEEK GEORGE GOLD AWARD WENT TO CHLOE JONES FROM BATH SPA UNIVERSITY
LET’S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT HER SUPERB COLLECTION…
NOT ONLY DID CHLOE WIN THE £20,000 PRIZE WHICH WENT WITH THE GOLD AWARD BUT SHE ALSO SCOOPED THE ‘BEST WOMENSWEAR’ TITLE FOR HER CASUAL TAKE ON EVENING WEAR, MIXING LUXURIOUS CHIFFON WITH JEWEL EMBELLISHED SWEAT-SHIRT MATERIAL
BEST MENSWEAR AWARD
RIONA HORROX – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART
Best Menswear Collection went to Riona Horrox of Edinburgh College of Art, Karen Jessen from Berlin’s ESMOD won the International Trophy and Fiona Xiaoping Huang from UCLan won the Zandra Rhode’s Textiles Award. The Ethical Award went to Sarah Murphy from Northumbria University. The Knitwear Award was won jointly by Josianne Propp from Manchester and Caitlin Charles Jones of Kingston.
KNITWEAR AWARD WINNER JOSIANNE PROPP
MANCHESTER
KNITWEAR AWARD WINNER CAITLIN CHARLES
KINGSTON
ZANDRA RHODE’S TEXTILES AWARD
FIONA XIAOPING HUANG – UCLan
THE ‘ICING ON THE CAKE’ THIS YEAR HAD TO BE WHEN THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE ANNOUNCED THAT THE DUCHESS WAS PREGNANT
UNFORTUNATELY, THE DUCHESS SUFFERED ACUTE MORNING SICKNESS AND NEEDED TO REST AFTER A BRIEF STAY IN HOSPITAL…
BUT SHE MANAGED TO ATTEND THE BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARDS FOR A SHORT TIME, LOOKING GLAMOROUS AND WELL, TO PRESENT PRIZES TO THE WINNERS…
BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARDS
IN A ROOM FULL OF OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC SPORTING ROYALTY IT WAS WONDERFUL THAT THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE WAS ABLE TO PRESENT THE AWARDS TO THE WINNERS AT THE SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2012 RECENTLY.
THE DUCHESS LOOKED RADIANT IN A LONG GREEN ALEXANDER McQUEEN GOWN, WHICH WAS CUT BEAUTIFULLY, AND FROM CERTAIN ANGLES REVEALED JUST A HINT OF A TEENY-WEENY BUMP.
THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE PRESENTS BRADLEY WIGGINS WITH HIS AWARD
DAVID BECKHAM WAS ALSO IN ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTED AWARDS ALONGSIDE THE DUCHESS.
WINNERS ON THE NIGHT WERE BRADLEY WIGGINS, FOR SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR, JESSICA ENNIS WAS RUNNER UP, WITH ANDY MURRAY COMING THIRD.
THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE PRESENTS JESSICA ENNIS WITH HER AWARD
THE AWARDS WERE OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT TO THE DUCHESS PARTICULARLY DUE TO HER ROLE AS ‘OLYMPICS AMBASSADOR’
OTHER AWARDS WENT TO SEBASTIAN COE (BELOW)
FOR THE ‘LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD’
USAIN BOLT, FOR ‘OVERSEAS SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR’
DAVE BRAILSFORD (PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR OF BRITISH CYCLING) WHO WON THE AWARD FOR ‘COACH OF THE YEAR’
‘TEAM OF THE YEAR’ WAS WON BY BOTH TEAM GB AND PARALYMPIC GB, THE ‘UNSUNG HERO AWARD’ WENT TO SUE AND JIM HOUGHTON, (WHO SPENT 25 YEARS TRANSFORMING A DERELICT LEICESTERSHIRE SPORTS GROUND INTO A COMMUNITY FACILITY), AND ‘THE HELEN ROLLASON AWARD’ WENT TO MARTINE WRIGHT
THE BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL 7/7 SURVIVOR WHO PLAYED SITTING VOLLEYBALL FOR PARALYMPICS GB
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING THE SPORTING HEROES WATCHED WITH TEARFUL EYES AS THEIR TEAMMATES AND OTHER SPORTING STARS REGALED THEIR INSPIRATIONS BEHIND THEIR SUCCESS AND LIFE-EXPERIENCES.
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WITH ALL OF THE WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS WHICH WE HAVE SEEN IN 2012, AND NOW A ROYAL BABY ON THE WAY, ONE THING IS FOR SURE, 2012 WAS CERTAINLY A FABULOUS YEAR!
NOW WITH THE BIRTH OF A NEW BABY, AND HEIR TO THE THRONE ARRIVING THIS YEAR, 2013 IS SURE TO BE TRULY MAGICAL….!
FROM ALL AT FASHION SHOW IMAGES, WE WISH YOU A VERY
HAPPY NEW YEAR!