That is the question. Considering the added complications of the need to be cycle-friendly and the fact that I was going straight to work afterwards, I tried to decide on an answer. Last week I went to CH1ChesterBID's Catwalk Show, held in the Westminster Suite of the Grosvenor Hotel. It was a showcase of fashion from high-street brands and university fashion students, showing off many people's hard work. It was stylish. Slick. Sophisticated. Smooth. I on the other hand, scoffed some toast down after a day of working from home, shoved the outfit in question in my bag and raced into town on my bike. I'll be forever grateful to the M&S toilets - perhaps not the classiest changing room, but it was there that I got catwalk ready. Well, I undid my day and a half old plaits and changed from jeans and t-shirt into something a little smarter, at least (a hand-me-down black top from a friend and a maxi skirt that my Mum found on a pound rail, to be precise!). With jeans rolled up in my bag and my battered helmet stowed away in the bike pannier (I couldn't quite bring myself to take it into the hotel), nobody had to know a thing, as I walked through the shining corridors of the Chester Grosvenor. A warm welcome greeted me and I took my seat. As the models strutted, swayed and glided up and down the catwalk, what struck me was how everything had been so carefully put together. Not a strand of hair was out of place. The tops matched the trousers, the bags matched the tops, the shoes matched the bags and any accessories were arranged more seamlessly than strawberries on a pavlova. (I think my wardrobe's more of an eaton mess!) But it wasn't only the outfits that evidenced such creative thought - the music chosen to accompany each collection complemented and oozed it's theme. The show highlighted that fashion is an art. The Chester University Fashion Design graduates and the creative brains behind the high-street brands, whose work we 'ooed' and 'ahhed' at, probably know this better than anybody. For the most of us however, perhaps fashion is a pressure, an abyss or a fast pass to a bank balance of zero! But maybe you've cracked it when you realise that, if you want it to be, fashion can be an art; it's a chance to exercise your imagination, make the most of the spectrum of colour God gave us, and to celebrate that (in my Nanna's words) 'anything goes!'
Because, although within each collection everything fitted a theme, no two collections were the same. The tops, the trousers, the bags, belts and shoes were all different. For the grand finale, the models all did a loop of the catwalk in one long line, between them sporting a range of collections; it was like a sushi bar of style! Thank you CH1ChesterBID for a fun evening and for everyone's hard work.
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