Posted by Rebekah Roy on March 10th, 2010
I’ve spent most of the week working at Kensington Palace for The Enchanted Palace with William Tempest. The Palace Gardens are beautiful but a bit barren, today the crocuses have started to grow!
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on March 9th, 2010
I really loved the third season of Skins so I was quite pleased when I met Kathyrn Prescott - I really like her character Emily Fitch - one of the twins. Kathryn attended her first London Fashion Week and was at William Tempest’s show, and below is a mini-interview with Kathryn about fashion!
Kathryn Prescott, with Vogue.com’s Jessica Bumpus (left), at William Tempest’s AW10 show. (photograph by Christopher Dadey)
This was your first London Fashion Week - did you enjoy it?
Yes I did, I’m not really into fashion as in what’s in or out at any one moment, but I love fashion as a form of art and expression and I think that’s what fashion week is all about.
Do you have any favourite London designers?
I love PPQ and Vivienne Westwood, and I saw William Tempest’s collection this fashion week for the first time and thought it was great - the cuts and structure of some of the dresses were amazing.
Do you have a favourite shop on the high street?
I do buy clothes from the high street but try to avoid it because everytime I do I see so many people wearing the same thing. The problem is that everyone knows where its from, how much it costs when you buy from the high street. I prefer buying things from vintage or charity shops because you will never see the same thing on someone else or end up looking like a clone.
What is your favourite piece of clothing?
My favourite thing in my wardrobe used to be a pair of mint green, t-bar heels which I bought from Peacocks about two years ago for about £12, but my dog ripped them apart just after fashion week, so the title has now passed to a velvet skirt I bought in Beyond Retro last year.
Have you become more fashion conscious since you’ve been on Skins?
No probably not - my style has changed, but more as a result of having more money to spend on clothes, than directly because of being in Skins.
Does your character, Emily Fitch influence the things that you wear? Are your styles very different?
I love the crazy style Emily has, but personally there’s not many of her clothes that I would wear as myself . I’m not really into clashing colours or anything too "pretty" like the bows she wore a lot in series three, although I liked the navy blue playsuit she wears in the last episode of this series so much that Ed the costume designer let me keep it!
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on March 4th, 2010
Kensington Palace is one of London’s most famous landmarks, not least because it was once to home to Princess Diana. Every room has a story - it truly is a place of fairytales and secrets. There are so many hidden doors, secret stairwells and tiny rooms.
This year the palace has been transfored by the UK theatre company Wildworks and some of UK’s most talented designers:Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest, Stephen Jones, Aminaka Wilmont, Boudicca and illustrator and set designer Echo Morgan.
Naturally the room that I’m most exciting about is Queen Victoria’s bedroom with an installation by William Tempest! This is the room in which Victoria was sleeping when her uncle King William IV died at Windsor Castle in the middle of the night, and where she awoke to the news that she was to become Queen. The installation in this room will represent Victoria’s life changing overnight transformation from young princess to Queen of the United Kingdom. Inspired by Victoria’s new-found freedom and independence as a result of her accession, William Tempest will create an avant-garde interpretation of a period dress that uses origami and produce a trompe l’oeil effect whereby the dress will appear to vanish and merge into its surroundings.
The Enchanted Palace opens 26 March – June 2010 at Kensington Palace.
Information on opening hours and ticket prices, visit www.hrp.org.uk/kensingtonpalace. Supported by the Members of Historic Royal Palaces.
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on February 23rd, 2010
I just love working William Tempest. This is his third season at London Fashion Week, showing at Vauxhall Fashion Scout.
The collection is beautiful, very red carpet and also easy to wear. Many of Wil’s dresses have a hidden corset so they nip you in at the waist - you feel strong, powerful, sexy…and yet slightly vulnerable…William’s designs are multi-dimensional in so many ways.
Photos by Christopher Dadey.
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on February 18th, 2010
Everyone thinks that Fashion Week is super busy but it’s really the weeks that lead up to it that are so exciting. I always feel privileged to see a designer’s collection come together. You might have seen someone’s sketches and inspiration months ago, and looked at fabric swatches and then finally the toile.
Oh, to see the final garments - it’s like Christmas for me. To slowly unzip the garement bag or to simply take off the plastic cover. To see an idea become a reality. I love the idea that something wonderful could happen to somebody in that dress - maybe they get engaged, receive an award or fall in love - just something that gives the dress a memory. It’s so exciting to see everything come together - almost more exciting then the actual show. The show for me is the end - the work is done and now it’s up to the sales team and the process beings again!
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