Hail all Fashionistas, Drama Queens & Shopaholics - The Clothes ShowLive 2015 review

It has been a week since the biggest fashion event in the heart of Birmingham.

The Clothes Show that takes place every year, ran from Friday 4th to the 8th December. 

It was such a super-stylish, busy weekend at The Clothes Show live with a lot to offer.

I attended the event on Sunday 6th December representing Grapevine Birmingham - thanks to The Clothes Show for my press pass, I had a lovely time and spent quite a bit (of which was to be expected).

So, it was a very busy day and offered a variety of things to do and get involved in - from shopping the various, unique boutiques, tuning in on the Q&A sessions, picking up a range of style tips & listening in on the riveting interviews at the Olympus Pen Style Studio and Image Catwalk.

 Lilah Parsons and Hilary Alexander interviewed known faces - from the likes of Caryn Franklin, Binky Felstead, Charlotte Crosby and Joey Essex exhibiting his brand 'Fusey'. 

Oh, and not to forget to mention the main show at the Alcatel Onetouch fashion theatre - it was spectacular!

(I will touch upon this a little later.)

There was a variety of food and drink places, where you could rest and refuel with a hot or cold snack, or beverage to re-hydrate and quench your thirst from the shopping cardio.

Choices of restaurants to have lunch in the afternoon, from The Parlour - where you could have fine afternoon lunch or tea in style and have a taste of the show's splendid VIP menu. Bellissimo!

Or if you wanted to go glam it up a notch more - you could have opted for a glass of Lambrini or delicious, fruity cocktail at the enticing Lambrini Cocktail Bar in association with Reveal - oh why not!

The range of bars and cafés around the venue were from Starbucks, East and West, Subway and Damn Fine Sandwich Company. There was something to satisfy everyone's tastebuds and budgets.

Wanted to keep it detox friendly - there was The Shoreditch Juice Bar to keep that in check.

Amidst of all the shoppers, shopping, catwalks, hair and beauty demos - many people had also got involved in getting live photoshoots done, live beauty, cosmetic or pamper treatments such getting a teeth whitening treatment live at the Megawhite's (express laser whitening) stands.

Many fashionistas and beauty queens had the choice of having live beauty or hair treatments done. High street and independent hair and beauty brands from the likes of T-H-X Total Hair Experts were involved and exhibited at this year's The Clothes Show.

You also had the option of getting your hair professionally treated at the professional hair stylist stands - so, did you glam up and shop round in style?

There was also the option of shopping from the brands product range at great competitive prices!

Clothing boutiques included high street and independent brands, from the lovely Muubaa, Glamorous, Little Mistress, Philip Armstrong, Maniere De Voir, House of Bilimoria, Girls On Film Clothing, Motel Rocks, Dreamland Clothing - and many, many more fabulous boutiques.

  Jewellery and Accessories stands included Black Moon, Mawi, Anisha Parmar, Ma-Ga London, Rebecca Louise Gifts - and many more treasured brands!

  And beautifying beauty brands from the wonderful Elemis, Glitter Express, Make Believe, Helene Cosmetics, Barry M.

The main show at the Alcatel Onetouch fashion theatre!

It was an amazing experience sitting frow watching The Clothes Show live, hosted by Rick Edwards and opened by an outstanding performance by Ella Eyre. 

All the models and dancers put on a fantastic show. The fashion designs and performances were visually powerful and creatively unique. 

I really adored the the play with creatively varied, cultural themes - very strong performances with a lot of energy, passion and panache.

From a beautiful, riveting ballet performance, to a cool hip hop scene, to a spirited, Red Indian tribe based segment, to a captivating Spanish lovers scene - with a touch of humour promoting the new Star Wars movie, where a storm trooper makes his entrance on stage mid-performance and breaks out into a dance. 

The highlights from the whole day's experience for myself personally, have got to be the performances/catwalks in the Alcatel OneTouch theatre, the ultimate beauty and fashion shopping experience under one roof at great prices, the Q&A sessions which were insightful, the performance by Ella Eyre and the fantastic segment of the storm trooper dancing to Silento! Fantastic!

Not only was the event super-stylish, fun, insightful but also a touch educational and definitely entertaining! 

I hope our winners from Grapevine Birmingham's competition also enjoyed their time at The Clothes Show as much as I did and shopped until they dropped - snagging some great finds along the way. 

Thank you Clothes Show for a great day's experience, it was a pleasure attending on behalf of Grapevine Birmingham - until 2016!

Have a lovely week my fellow fashionistas and a magical Christmas & Happy New Year!

Until next time darlings.

Jaspreet Thiara xo

Fashion Blogger, Grapevine Birmingham Fashion Editor & Representative

Also check out my Grapevine Birmingham article at www.grapevinebirmingham.com

Images courtesy of The Clothes Show & Myself