Dear hairdresser,
I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable, but you need to learn to do Afro-Caribbean hair.
That’s the hair that’s super curly, the hair you call “rough, tough and unmanageable,” the hair you pass on to someone else to deal with backstage at fashion shows, because you don’t know how.
Now is the time to learn.
Having signed with Mahogany Model Management about a year ago, I’m a relative newbie when it comes to professional catwalk modelling, so when I was offered the opportunity to walk in London Fashion Week I grabbed it with both hands.
Fashion’s Finest held two days of off-schedule shows at the Grand Connaught Rooms during London Fashion Week this year and I was privileged enough to walk in shows on both days. With make-up by the Academy of Freelance Makeup and hair by Electric Hairdressing London, all the other models and I had to do was show up and walk… easier said than done.
It’s that time of the year again; time for the battle of the egos to be waged on the front row, time for wild predictions about what we will be wearing this year and the only time of the year when wearing your grandma’s blouse and skin tight hot pants is acceptable.
As stressful as London Fashion Week (20 – 24 February 2015) can be, I’ve devised a simple-as-pie five step plan inspired by my trip to the #LFWRetreat held at the Red Bull Studios in London.
Phoebe Parke 