Vogue's Fashion Night Out: Two days to go!

Hi guys,
For the third year in a row,Thursday marks the latest of Vogue Fashion's Night's out. These have been a great success in recent years, and let's face it, if our high streets needed a little helping hand at any time, then it's now. And the evening supports the charity Kids Company, so it's a win-win situation really!

Vogue's Fashion Night out gives shoppers the chance to take part in exclusive events, mingle with celebs and watch great entertainment, and snap up some special designs, made just for the event. The events will be happening in cities around the world, but the focus of the UK's efforts will be in London.

Looking for a fun event to go to? Here's a list of some of my faves:

7 For All Mankind: Cocktail Party and DJ Set, 7 For All Mankind store, 171 Regent Street, from 6pm.

Etro: Cocktail Party and exclusive Paisley T-Shirt, Etro store, 14 Old Bond Street, from 6pm.

Nails Inc: New product Showcase at the South Molton Street flagship store, and special offers including free mini manicure and mini polish collection with purchases at Nails Inc House of Fraser Oxford Street Fenwick Bond Street, Debenhams and John Lewis Oxford Street.

Twenty8Twelve: Prize draw to win a Twenty8Twelve dress. Twenty8Twelve store, St Martin's Courtyard, from 6pm

Uniqlo: Launch of the final +J collection for AW11, with +J goody bags to the first 100 customers. Uniqlo flagship store, 311 Oxford Street, from 6pm.

Topshop and Marks & Spencers are always keen supporters of the event, and always have lots going on in store too, so I think they're definitely worth checking out!

I'm so gutted that I'm going to have to miss it, but I have a work event that I just have to attend. Rub it in though, and tell me all about the fun you have on Friday! In the meantime, you can read about all the fun I had at Vogue's Fashion night out last year.

Love, Tor xx

My Vogue's Fashion Night Out

Hi Guys,
It was Vogue's fashion night out last night, and shops all over London were holding events for the occasion. I met with Jenny from The Style PA, and we started from Oxford Circus and worked our way around the shops; it was quite a mission! We started on the high street (Oxford Street) before heading to Bond Street, where they really know how to throw a party!

Most of the high street stores were hosting instore events; Oasis were holding a night of a thousand prizes, Warehouse were giving customers the opportunity to style models and win the outfits they picked, and River Island (shown above) had make up stands, a photo booth, and nail bar.

Pull and Bear embraced social media in a popular window display in which two bloggers were pitched against each other to style an outfit on models in the window, whilst the public looked on. The crowd were then given X stickers to put on the window of the bloggers outfit that they preferred. Of all the shops of Oxford Street I think this drew the biggest crowd.


In a moment of real surreality, one minute we were wandering along eating the most delicious cake pops I had ever tasted (courtesy of the gorgeous girl in Next, above) the next moment Jedward were running passed us at quite a speed: they were so quick I could only photograph the backs of their head (and I felt like a sad teenage fan doing it!) I have no idea which event they were heading too. After this we heading to Selfridges where we drank mini bottles of Champagne, and had our photos taken in the Chanel photo booth. (Click the link to see the photos!)


Both high street and high end stores opted for "living mannequins" as their window displays, with both Zara and Daks choosing this for their entertainment (shown above). We also went to Burberry (where we lusted after several coats), McQueen (where we lusted after everything), and DKNY, where we reminisced about the terrible DKNY purchases of our youth, and drank the most delicious cocktails; however by this stage I was having too much fun to remember to take photos! It was a great night out, and i'm already looking forward to next year.

What did you guys do for Fashion Night Out? Do you have any fun stories to share?

Love, Tor xx

Vogue's fashion night out: Marks and Spencer style!

If you would like to read about what went on in the fancy pants stores of London Town on Vogue's fashion night out, then I would suggest you checked here, here, or here.

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I'm more of a highstreet kind of girl myself, and because the details of the topshop event didn't hold much interest, I spent most of my evening with the store that could arguably be described as the queen of the British high street: Marks and Spencer.

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M&S went all out, and put on quite a show: you could enter the store through a special red carpeted catwalk entrance (see below) and the evening saw catwalk shows (with goody bags for the VIPs that won tickets with their shopping) trend workshops, champagne and nibbles and little boots behind the DJ booth; quite a lot of entertainment from one store, i'm sure you'll agree!!

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I exhausted my camera by taking photographs in Primark (see yesterdays posts) so I didn't get any images of the best of the action, but here is the entrance, the catwalk primed for action and the free champagne bar:

I also fell in love with this barbie pink leather dress from the new M&S limited collection. The colour is awesome, it had a leopard print lining and it was as soft as butter. I think I could rock it! If only £149 could magically land in my lap....

The rest of the night was equally fun; the whole of Oxford Street had an unusual air of excitement about it. As I walked past La Senza I realised the mannequin in the window had been replaced by a model: I only realised this when she frightened the life out of me by winking at me! Outside Selfridges was a freezing cold looking (but very beautiful!) Agent Provocateur model drawing quite a crowd and I had one of those surreal "zoolander" moments, because just yards away from her was a crowd of protestors. It's not for me to say whether they were wrong or right, but I did snigger to myself as the line "it's not right at these events; ugly protesters bothing beautiful people" popped into my head. It really is one of my favourite films! I then popped down to topshop for a handful of yummy cadburys chocolates (and to return a torn dress- boo!) before heading home.

Anyway there it is; my fashion night out in all of its glory. It might not have been full of glamour, but it was full of fun!!

Love, Tor xxxx