Newcastle's Fashion Futures Event at The Baltic!

Last Thursday I was lucky enough to score an invite to Newcastle’s fashion futures event. Previously Newcastle Fashion Week, it was a brilliant event running at the BALTIC on the quayside.

The Baltic

Sponsored by Mercedes Benz

Henry Holland and Laura Weir.

Alexandra Shulman.

There were three talks on that day from industry professionals. The first was from a panel of industry insiders such as Charis Younger, designer at All Saints, Darren Spurling, MD of Terry De Havilland, Kate Ablett, designer at Berghaus and Michelle Taylor, founder of Tallulah Love.

Then the second and third included British designer Henry Holland, 2014’s Fashionn Journalist of the year Laura Weir and last but not least, Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue.

It was an amazing day, and I was so so lucky to have been given the opportunity to attend because it was absolutely fantastic!

Henry offered some insight into the advice he was give by his mother when younger; “On average you have eight careers in life.” I found this really interesting! He reports that he is so far on three, and hopes to possibly write a book in the near future, in order to add ‘author’ to the list.

Laura Weir was fantastic. She had a real way with outwards and her confidence was admiring. Also the fact that her and Henry are besties makes me very jealous!

Then Alexandra Shulman spoke about her way up the ladder to Vogue. It was interesting to hear that originally she was never interested in fashion, but more the psychology of fashion: which is something I’d also like to learn more about.

Overall the day was wonderful and it was amazing. I’ll definitely be going again next year!

The day did continue on into the night with an amazing catwalk show from Northumbria's fashion design students, however my friend Lucy and myself had to head back to S'land to get some prep done for our exam on Friday.

Saying that, I'm all finished with uni now! All done until September - woop woop! So hopefully, I'll be getting some more OOTD posts on here for you when I have my charming little photographer back. (i.e. my 13 year old sister!)

Love Rosie

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