Swide Magazine by Dolce&Gabbana

| posted Jun 23, 2009

Working at a fashion show involves running around after models, and drinking champagne. What is rarely talked about however is when the champagne's finished and the heels are off.

The hours after the "leopard has roared" or in other words, the Dolce & Gabbana show are not always pretty ones. Despite the day always starting out full of fun, energy, hopes and dreams - six hours later (and four diet cokes and a glass of Dom Perignon) - the office gets, well a bit tense.

When you're drinking Dom Perignon on a Saturday morning before most people have read the papers/had their coffee, it follows that the rest of the day may come as somewhat of a let down.

When your desktop actually reads like the National Enquirer, returning home after a day at the coalface of male models can seem somewhat weird.

As life becomes centred in the office in the run up to fashion week it follows that when do you do "eventually" return home, there will be no food in your fridge, it's impossible to sleep due to the vast amounts of caffeine you've consumed, and people going about their daily life are not actually that interested in discussing backstage gossip at middnight with a manic, sleep-deprived person with sore feet.

Play spot the fashionsita in various fashion capitals around the world. They're the ones that when (if) they open their wallets, the only thing inside are taxi receipts.

The morning after a show your hair will look like Marge Simpson, your make-up Courtney Love and your feet like a basketball players. You will need to spend several hours attempting to patch up your face/life/body in order to leave the house. And when you do - tempers flare easily.

Coffee - the lifeblood of the office. It is also worth adding, even with an hourly espresso, office reactions slow down to at least five minutes.

And then of course due to over-consumption of coffee, the machine breaks/empties. Without coffee, the office becomes mute.

Until the next show...

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