I had the privilege of being invited to the opening of Stephen Jones's exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Monday 23 Feb. He is the top hat designer in the UK and probably the world.
I had a really great night . I took lots of photos and even if I say so myself my daughters both looked gorgeous. I was so proud of them! I left my camera in daughter 1's bag so will have to wait until she returns it to me before I can post the photos ( Editor's note :now posted).
Daughter 1 had to finish an article for a website and made daughter 2 go really late because of that. Daughter 2 was standing over her shoulder saying " Send it now! Send it now!". I didn't know how late they would be and waiting outside for about an hour and a half. As I was by the steps, I had a fantastic view of all the celebrities attending. I'm not impressed by celebrities but it was a very satisfying experience.
I just missed out on the oysters as I had been outside most of the time and the last few were given out in front of my nose. The canapes were the smallest I had ever seen but delicious. I liked the cubes of hot beef with parsnip topping (at the time I had no idea what the topping was but it was quite bland) and the warm prawn on seeded biscuit. I will give up describing the food as I am obviously not very good at it.The pink champagne just flowed and flowed and the place itself is magnificent.
I met the husband of one of the girls I work with . He who is an architect currently working in Glasgow. He is in charge of the project to build the new transport museum there. He pointed out one of the main lighting designs in the V & A and told me his boss had designed it.Later I gate crashed Jasper Conran's group at the hotel opposite with my two daughters.
Jasper very kindly paid for our drinks even though he must have been miffed that his boyfriend was giving one of my fellow gate crashers lots of hugs and all the attention. Oops ! Am I dropping names? Honestly I'm not impressed by celebrities and that's what I said to Stephen Jones.
I had a really great night . I took lots of photos and even if I say so myself my daughters both looked gorgeous. I was so proud of them! I left my camera in daughter 1's bag so will have to wait until she returns it to me before I can post the photos ( Editor's note :now posted).
Daughter 1 had to finish an article for a website and made daughter 2 go really late because of that. Daughter 2 was standing over her shoulder saying " Send it now! Send it now!". I didn't know how late they would be and waiting outside for about an hour and a half. As I was by the steps, I had a fantastic view of all the celebrities attending. I'm not impressed by celebrities but it was a very satisfying experience.
I just missed out on the oysters as I had been outside most of the time and the last few were given out in front of my nose. The canapes were the smallest I had ever seen but delicious. I liked the cubes of hot beef with parsnip topping (at the time I had no idea what the topping was but it was quite bland) and the warm prawn on seeded biscuit. I will give up describing the food as I am obviously not very good at it.The pink champagne just flowed and flowed and the place itself is magnificent.
I met the husband of one of the girls I work with . He who is an architect currently working in Glasgow. He is in charge of the project to build the new transport museum there. He pointed out one of the main lighting designs in the V & A and told me his boss had designed it.Later I gate crashed Jasper Conran's group at the hotel opposite with my two daughters.
Jasper very kindly paid for our drinks even though he must have been miffed that his boyfriend was giving one of my fellow gate crashers lots of hugs and all the attention. Oops ! Am I dropping names? Honestly I'm not impressed by celebrities and that's what I said to Stephen Jones.
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