No Skybridge too high for fashion

Well I couldn’t resist so on the night of March 19, 2012 I took the lift up (with unobtrusive security presence) to Level 42 of Tower 2 and then looked down 175m below and marvelled at the view. I then spun around to marvel at the set-up of the heavily-lighted bridge with chairs adorning both sides of the walkways.

The well-dressed guests started streaming in and taking their places for reputedly the first even event (and for sure the first

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Well I couldn’t resist so on the night of March 19, 2012 I took the lift up (with unobtrusive security presence) to Level 42 of Tower 2 and then looked down 175m below and marvelled at the view. I then spun around to marvel at the set-up of the heavily-lighted bridge with chairs adorning both sides of the walkways.

The well-dressed guests started streaming in and taking their places for reputedly the first even event (and for sure the first fashion show), ie the J Spring Fashion show to be held at the Skybridge. But they were not the usual fashionista crowd as most of them were at the annual Mercedez Benz Stylo Fashion Grand Prix and the Chanel Spring/Summer 2012 shows being held the same night. Instead people from the diplomatic circle and a mish-mash of others.

Still Jessica Minh Anh a former Vietnamese model and daughter of a high-ranking official in Vietnam managed to pull-off something no one else managed to so far. As she did in October last year at the first ever fashion show at the more lowly (44m) London Tower Bridge.

So it was a historic occasion however you want to read it.

The roll-call of designers and labels numbered 10 with names like Paul Costelloe, Shiatzy Chen, Susana Bettencourt, Chula, Katelyn Aslett, Maicco, Smriti Gupta, Addy van den Krommenacker, the twin swimwear labels of Gottex and Gideon Oberson and showings from students of the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology.

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