All Walks Event: National Portrait Gallery

Last night the 3rd Floor team attended Late Shift exhibition event at The National Portrait Gallery in which All Walks Beyond the Catwalk founders Erin O'Connor, Debra Bourne and Caryn Franklyn were the curators for. The night was full of exciting events and activities, check it out here. You can also read about our visit on the 3rd Floor blog here, written by our lovely project manager, Laura Nicol. The group took part in being photographed in the 'face in the hole' activity with Vogue and Playboy backgrounds as well as the 'Photobooth'. Currently waiting on the photos so once I have them they shall be posted!

What I wore: black chiffon tiered top: Miss Selfridge, peach satin harem pants: Miss Selfridge, pearl & chain layered necklace: Vintage

Oh! And we met Erin O'Connor :)

From left: Moi (stylist), Laura (project manager/PR), Lia (creative features writer), ERIN, Jess (graphic designer), 

Kim (photographer)

All Walks Project- with Caryn Franklin

Today was a very eye opening and inspiring day; Caryn Franklin, former editor of ID magazine, host of the Clothes Show Live and all round Fashionista gave a talk on the project she is working on called All Walks Beyond The Catwalk, which is a project based on embracing all shapes, sizes, races and ages within the Fashion Industry, founded by herself, Erin O'Connor and Debra Bourne.
I was excited to attend this talk, as I am basing my dissertation around the evolution of the female form over the years, so this was very interesting and inspiring for me! At first, I thought the project was going to be about completely discarding the 'Size Zero' from the catwalk and to campaign about using 'Real Women'...which personally I don't believe in as being quite naturally petite myself- I find this rather discriminating (although I am a healthy size 8 I should add!)
However..this was not the case...Caryn explained that the project's aim is to incorporate all types of women- all diversities, rather than replacing one idealised body shape with another; which I am a great believer of and think this is an amazing project and I think it will be truly succesful! Caryn Franklin was such a lovely lady and I felt extremely priviledged to have met her and heard her views. 


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 We were given the question, 'What does the body mean to you' and asked to write our answers on a large piece of canvas, which shall be exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in February next year, as part of a collaboration from designers, models and photographers involved in the promotion of All Walks.

Here are a few examples

♥ Your Body!! 

 One of my messages

One of my favourites! 

By my good friend Rakhee Tailor x 

Another one of mine... 

The lovely Caryn Franklin and I