{"id":132216,"date":"2020-02-15T01:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/15\/my-evening-as-a-catwalk-model-at-london-fashion-week\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T01:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:04:47","slug":"my-evening-as-a-catwalk-model-at-london-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132216","title":{"rendered":"My evening as a catwalk model at London fashion week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As champions of sustainable fashion and inclusivity, Vin and Omi\u2019s show dispensed with planet-destroying fabrics \u2013 and professional modelsIt\u2019s Friday night and I\u2019m standing in the basement of the Savoy hotel, surrounded by more than 50 people in wire antlers and candyfloss pink recycled wigs. It\u2019s just a few minutes before Vin and Omi\u2019s show is due to start, when the small wooden door in front of us will open on to the famous mirrored ballroom \u2013 the same one where Christian Dior held his first UK show. I don\u2019t feel ready for the London fashion week crowd.So unique is Vin and Omi\u2019s brand \u2013 sustainable fashion with an inclusive message \u2013 that I and many of the other models are in fact not models at all. Next in line to me is Paris, an elegant, honey-skinned woman, who tells me only as she\u2019s being fitted into her latex hotpants for the show that she normally works as a mental health nurse. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2020\/feb\/15\/my-evening-as-a-catwalk-model-at-london-fashion-week\" target=\"_blank\">My evening as a catwalk model at London fashion week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As champions of sustainable fashion and inclusivity, Vin and Omi\u2019s show dispensed with planet-destroying fabrics \u2013 and professional modelsIt\u2019s Friday night and I\u2019m standing in the basement of the Savoy hotel, surrounded by more than 50 people in wire antlers and candyfloss pink recycled wigs. It\u2019s just a few minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}