The day of the Elle Style Awards arrive: I spend half the day being ferried around the homes and hotel rooms of celebrities and journos heading to the awards. In the weeks before the big event, we rummage through magazine tears and search the internet for inspiration. I cut and colour at least seven members of the Elle team so need to be on hand for last minute touch ups too!
I’m lucky enough to be invited to the awards by Elle’s editor Lorraine Candy and have just a few minutes spare to throw on my outfit and get ready.
I’m on a table with Jade Jagger, who gives a really funny speech when she presents an award. But I have to confess to spending most of the night running from table to table catching up with friends and actresses and models that I’ve worked with and trying to get a closer look at people you usually only see in movies! Courtney Love was the most watchable, with Mickey Rourke a close second. Courtney was so worse for wear that I wondered how she’d even managed to get there. But she did look very cool in a nude, structured dress. Her speech for Woman of the Year left me wondering if I’d dreamed it: did she really say that?
I bumped into Pixie Geldoff in the toilets and spent half an hour wondering whether I should chop all my hair off. Then it dawned on me that I can remember when Pixie was born, and decided it was a look best left to the new crowd, not the old crowd. My friend David Walliams showed off his new girl, who wore a dress specially made by Giles Deacon. I wore a Chloe dress and Rupert Sanderson heels and must have had two cans of Klorane dry shampoo in my hair, with Sonia Rykiel brooches pinned into my ponytail . My hair looked as trashed as Courtney.
Sienna Miller looked amazing; I just cannot get over my girl crush on her. Alexa Chung had the cutest hair up I’ve seen for a while and kept the fashionista crowd entertained.
On the rainiest night of the year Big Sky Studio was definitely the place to be!
