Seaside chic at Brighton Fashion Week
Brighton Fashion Week brings its glitz and glamour back to the South Coast with a catwalk of stylish events
Brighton Fashion Week is descending upon the city once again to display a sophisticated array of cutting edge designs, showcasing the most innovative and creative of designers and placing Brighton firmly on the fashion industry map.
Taking place between 30 May and 3 June, this year’s Brighton Fashion Week promises to be bigger, better and more spectacular than ever and the best place to spot the latest fashion trends.
The Brighton Frocks Show (associate sponsors, Cardens Accountants)
Brighton embraces its reputation as a forward thinking and socially aware enclave for kindred spirits of the counter culture. It is reflected in its avant-garde sensibility towards arts, lifestyle, music, politics, and social issues. In celebration of this, BFW 2012 presents Brighton Frocks, a playground for alternative and costume designers challenging the expectations of contemporary fashion and theatre by taking you on an off-the wall journey through a world of wild and wonderful collections all showcased on a prestigious platform.
Wed 30 May (Doors open 7pm, show starts 8pm) All Saints Church, Hove
The Zeitgeist Catwalk Show (associate sponsors: iCrossing)
The Zeitgeist Show features innovative and contemporary designs that infuse stylish sophistication, elegant lines, immaculate tailoring and luxurious fabrics with pioneering style aesthetics. It welcomes new, emerging and established designers who are ready to take their vision to the next level. The pinnacle event of BFW 2012, it is an opportunity to behold an unravelling of creativity by the designers of today and today’s tomorrow.
Thu 31 May (Doors open 7pm, show starts 8pm) All Saints Church, Hove
The Photocopy Club (does fashion)
The Photocopy Club’s aim is to get photography off the internet and back to print, displaying photographs sent in from all corners of the globe. This affordable and accessible exhibition, with a fashion theme exclusively for Brighton Fashion Week, challenges the elitist traditions of fine art, using only black and white photocopied images.
Fri 1 June, Create Studios, Brighton
The Ready to Wear Show (sponsored by Business Cash Advance)
Hosted by Joey Bevan from Britain’s Next Top Model, The Ready To Wear Show will feature men’s and women’s boutique, high street, vintage clothing and accessories. Enjoy stunning catwalk shows, shopping and pampering over two days with exhibitors including Arthur and Betty, Henry Hunt, Tramp Boutique and Dirty Harry, as well as styling workshops from Mark Woolley of Electric Hair, inspiring talks from 125 Magazine’s Perry Curties and the controversial artist, Charlie Tuesday Gates.
Sat 2 & Sun 3 June, Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome
Jitterbug – Brighton Fashion Week Closing Party
Sending out the week with a bang and partying in true old school style, everybody’s hard work is celebrated when we go back to the ’50s, when life was simple and all anybody cared about was their next champagne cocktail fix and what frock to wear
to that evening’s cocktail party. With a resident rockabilly hairdresser on hand to give you that quiff or up-do to make sure you are really looking the part, along with a live swing band and DJs certain to get you jiving. This is sure to be a lively, good old fashioned knees up to close the week’s antics.
Dress code: put on your ’50s glad rags, a prize will be awarded to the best dressed guy and gal!
Sun 3 June, 8.30pm, The Mesmerist
Tickets are on sale now at www.brightonfashionweek.co.uk
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