High Street Fashion Week is here and you can attend for free!

High Street Fashion Week is a new and exciting event. 

The week is for people to see the latest High Street fashion trends and an opportunity to purchase new products at a discounted price. Think of London Fashion Week, but at a more realistic price, that will not damage the purse strings.

The day's events will be held in the trendy and world's first pop-up boutique in Shoreditch Boxpark. Labels to look out for when shopping about include Myo, Roxie Sweetheart, Frills by AD, Elisha Francis, Street Princess, Zoieanne, Lilies of the Alley, Lilli-Marie, La Touche Boutique and much much more. There is also a range of vintage brands as well!

The evening will include catwalk shows in the chic Aura Mayfair club with an exclusive VIP guest-list portraying High-Street couture. E-Retailers and brands including Chic and Geek, The vintage Set and many more will strut their stuff on the catwalk.

Leah Summons, who founded HSFW, has worked in Miami Fashion Week and wanted to give the chance to small boutique owners, like herself, to show off their own personality and style.

There will be a chance to have a make-over from the team, Vanity Van, who style the runway models. The team have also been linked to styling Lady Gaga and many celebrities are predicted to be a part of the exciting week.

With lots of people admittedly shopping from the High Street, myself included, it makes sense that they finally had their own limelight.

I'll be going to the press launch and shopping about Shoreditch Boxpark during the week at some point. So see you there!

High Street Fashion Week takes place on the 22-28^th April.

To register for free tickets, visit: www.highstreetfashionweek.co.uk 

Vogue's fashion playground.

Vogue like to host events in partnership with The Village in Westifield White City every so often. I've been lucky to attend a few times now and the other night, I found myself there, yet again, with many other happy shoppers, sipping on free champagne and cocktails.

After one-too-many vodka cocktails later, I was busy enjoying the circus themed fashion playground event, which differed from the previous year. Contort and mime artists, magicians, circus performers, fortune tellers and jugglers surrounded and performed for everybody most of the night. There was a circus atmosphere with little touches and wonderful freebies such as the mini-burgers which were absolutely delicious, candy floss, popcorn, ice-cream, carousal horses and balloons.

Each store in The Village participates in the event. You are able to shop (champagne in hand) and some stores even offer great discount offers for the night; Ballantyne, Aquascutum, Furla, Zadig & Voltair, The Kooples, Toywatch (to name but a few) and wonderful prizes.

There was a photobooth in Pal Zileri and a Vogue photoshoot to do with friends to see what you would look like on the cover of Vogue!

The girls and I with Alexandra Burke.

It was a wonderful evening filled with fashion, fun and freebies. What more could a girl as for? It makes that shopping trip much more special and exciting. 

Plus it is always fun to do some celebrity 

spotting. Look out for other Vogue events like these, held at The Village in Westfield, as it is free but exclusive to certain readers.

Hopefully see you at the next one!