Forget the insipid media circus of London Fashion Week, if you enjoy fashion and want to stay ahead of the pack, this event wins by several lengths. Alternative Fashion Week is all about supporting new talent and making a fashion show more approachable and affordable to everyday folk. We love it. This is where bright young designers show off their innovative fashions - some on the edge of the mainstream, some utterly mad (think fetishwear and fantasywear). Old Spitalfields Market is a suitably cool place to host the week-long fashion gala full of fabulous frocks and a fair number of outfits suitable for the street and affordable too. The lunchtime shows are open to all and are accompanied by the lilting sounds of contemporary jazz. The event is packed to bursting point with aspiring models, who rock up en masse to try and get scouted, which makes for some fabulous people-watching opportunities. Entrance is free but they take collections for AIDS charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
Alternative Fashion Week 2008
Old Spitalfields Market, E1 6AA
21st April 2008 - 25th April 2008
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12 minutes walk from Alternative Fashion Week 2008
Learn some crafty manouveurs at Making Space where classes on mask making, glass engraving, pyrography (burning patterns into wood or leather), chainmail knitting, and book ... More
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Spitalfields Health and Fitness,
Fruit Exchange Building,Brushfield Street,Shoreditch,
London,
E1Map
1 minutes walk from Alternative Fashion Week 2008
A relatively new player in the health and fitness market, the Exchanges offer well equipped gyms, as well as classes, beauty therapy and swimming. New ...More
12 minutes walk from Alternative Fashion Week 2008
Fashionable Shoreditch drinkers are attracted to this cellar bar by its rickety old furniture, interesting imported beers, and a pricy, but very tasty selection of ... More
Scuzzy venue on the outskirts of Shoreditch which looks like a crummy cafe from the outside. Walk past the crowded plastic tables and chairs and ... More
12 minutes walk from Alternative Fashion Week 2008
Cargo were pioneers of the multi-tasking MDF concept (that's Music-Dance-Food, not cheap fibreboard) and boast one of the most imaginative live music line-ups in the ... More
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Forget the insipid media circus of London Fashion Week, if you enjoy fashion and want to stay ahead of the pack, this event wins by several lengths. Alternative Fashion Week is all about supporting new talent and making a fashion show more approachable and affordable to everyday folk. We love it. This is where bright young designers show off their innovative fashions - some on the edge of the mainstream, some utterly mad (think fetishwear and fantasywear). Old Spitalfields Market is a suitably cool place to host the week-long fashion gala full of fabulous frocks and a fair number of outfits suitable for the street and affordable too. The lunchtime shows are open to all and are accompanied by the lilting sounds of contemporary jazz. The event is packed to bursting point with aspiring models, who rock up en masse to try and get scouted, which makes for some fabulous people-watching opportunities. Entrance is free but they take collections for AIDS charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
