IT WAS fun, it was flirty and just the right kind of fashion thriller to lift spirits in these tough economic times.
Yes, the West Yorkshire Forget Me Not Trust’s Fashion Show was back wowing a Huddersfield Town Hall audience with pop classics and dozens of models strutting their stuff to show off what will be in our shops this winter, credit crunch or not.
Here were a clutch of the town’s top fashion businesses in confident mood, showing off their new winter ranges and helping the Lindley-based charity to raise the £3m that it needs to build a children’s respite centre and hospice at Brackenhall.
Confirmation from the charity’s community fundraiser, Gina Fielding, that the charity had already bought the land for the hospice brought one of the biggest cheers of the night.
More still went to the tiny tots who braved the catwalk to model clothes from the Forget Me Not’s own charity shop and from the rails at supermarket Sainsbury’s, proving that these cuties – and yours – can look good without breaking the bank.
Olivia, at two, proved the night’s blonde model discovery for the next generation, while at least two of the boys hit their beds before the final curtain. It’s a tough life in modelling.
In all, eight children strutted their stuff, backed by 24 adult models, many of them familiar faces returning to give their services for a second year.
The five-strong team of male models, including solicitor Voldi Welch and Ross and Richie Clark, the sons of compere for the night Pennine FM’s Paul Clark, strode out in everything from classy suits by C and J Antich to really relaxed looking casualwear from the Forget Me Not’s charity shop which again, wouldn’t break the bank.
Whistles greeted the gorgeous girls wearing the lingerie from Brief Encounter.
But the designer buzz was perhaps seen best in the work of Huddersfield designer Kevan Jon, whose evening wear had the wow factor, plus stunning evening and day wear from House of Eliot.
