Fashion Show 3 Art

A fashion show intended to showcase is different from an ordinary high street fashion show. Not only will it take much longer for models to get into their outfits (which rules out quick changes) but the value and delicacy of the items means that a great deal of care needs to be taken.

Timing your show

You need to allow around two minutes per model. This is enough time to walk down the catwalk, pose and walk back down the catwalk.

In terms of back stage timing you need to allow ten minutes for a girl to get a dress on for which she will need at least one helper.

Boys

If you can, its great to have male models accompany your female models down the catwalk. A local hire company may be willing to lend you suits if you give them a call.

Announcer

Ask someone with good presenting skills to compere the show. Their role will be to announce the name of the model and give a commentary about the dress that they are wearing. For example ‘This is Amy, she is wearing Bella, one of our pink prom dresses. This dress features stunning genuine crystal beading with a flowing tulle skirt’.

You should provide your compere with a script for each model/dress. This script should be organised in the same running order as the show.

Music

You should choose music which is both popular with the students in the show and appropriate for the occasion. Pay attention to the bpm (beats per minute) of the music. Your models will walk in time to the music and if the beat’s too fast they may end up half jogging down the catwalk (ruining your timings!).

Vet all music before hand to ensure that it doesn’t contain expletives.

Walk Through

It’s a good idea to have a walk though of your fashion show. While it is common to do a full dress rehearsal (wearing all the outfits), you should think carefully about doing this. Every time a prom dress is handled it runs the risk of being damaged. It is therefore not advisable to do a full dress rehearsal.

Backstage help

You will need at least one person to help when a girl is trying to get into her dress. If you can stagger the girls putting on their dresses then you won’t need as many helpers.

You also need a stage manager and an assistant stage manager. Both of these people should have a clipboard with details of the order in which the girls will go down the catwalk.

The stage manager stands in the wings and is responsible for ensuring that the right people go on stage at the right time.

It is there responsibility to make sure the girl starts putting the dress on in time and to make sure she is down in time. They need to be female so they can go into changing rooms.

Changing rooms

Ideally you need two rooms close to the stage. At least one needs to ensure privacy.

As prom dresses are worth hundreds of pounds each it is important to ensure they will not get damaged in the course of a fashion show.

One way to ensure that this doesn’t happen is by ensuring that no food, drink or make up is allowed into the changing rooms. Only the girls themselves and people helping them to get ready should be allowed in the changing room.

Ask girls to take responsibility for dresses

Begin by explaining to the girls involved that they will be personally responsible for taking care of their dresses. Each girl should formally ‘sign out’ the dress when she takes it off the rack. At the end of the show, someone needs to be appointed to check the dresses back on to the rail. A girl’s name should only be checked off the list when they have brought their dress back.

Enjoy it!

Running a fashion show can be great fun so finally, have a great time!

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Top 10 insider tips to becoming a Victoria’s Secret Model:

1. Get someone to take your picture. As simple as this sounds you will need this snapshot to approach a credible model agency. The agencies that assist with the casting of a Victoria’s Secret Model are going to want to see what you look like on film.

2. Go to the open call at Ford or Elite in New York City. These two agencies are primarily responsible for negotiating the contracts of Victoria’s Secret models. An open call is a time agencies put aside to meet new models. Call them and ask when they have “open calls” or look for that information on their website. When you arrive be sure to look amazing and have the snapshots in hand.

3. If you get rejected, get busy. Approach local modeling agencies where you live with your snapshots. If you get signed prepare to make friends with professional photographers. You will need those images to get the attention of Victoria’s Secret.

4. Register yourself on modeling websites. Use Google to find them. The world needs to know you are out there.

5. Get measured and be realistic. The ideal height of a Victoria’s Secret Model is 5’9″ standing barefoot with body measurements of 34-24-34.

6. Be Skinny. You must go to the gym. Stop eating junk food. If you are not naturally this thin but have the basic body type of a Victoria’s Secret model hire a nutritionist and a trainer.

7. Be on the cover of Vogue before you are 18 years old. Greatly increases your chances.

8. Enter the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Competition. In 2009 Victoria’s Secret had open calls in October in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami to launch the career of an unknown model. There are presently four requirements to be in the competition. Models must be female, between 18 to 30 years of age, from the United States and a minimum of 5’8″ tall (barefoot). The competition is once a year. Google it and look out for it.

9. Be professional. Be on time. Don’t stay up late and party before shoots. Be nice.

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Victoria secrets is a household name in the USA and well know to all lovers of fashion and lingerie. In recent years they have introduced the secrets fashion show featuring the secret models some of whom are some of the most famous fashion models in the world. The show which takes place once per year, is a glittering and ritzy event where the stars from the world of glamour, film and pop rub shoulders whilst the Victoria secrets models put on an amazing show of the latest collection.

What is less well known about Victoria secrets which turns over more than §5 billion a year is that they regularly create merchandising incentive schemes for clients. This enables them to increase the sales turn over of their goods.

One such incentive scheme is the Victoria secrets Gift card which can have a value of up to $1000 depending on the offer provided at the time. Most offers range between $500 and $1000. The gift card if taken up allows the client to spend up to the value on the card at any of the Victoria Secrets stores nationwide or online. This means the client can save a huge amount of money.

Where the catch, well there is is no catch, Victoria secrets is a huge corporation and the schemes are completely legitimate and trustworthy.

What the company realized is that huge advertising campaigns which entice clients to purchase their products do work very well form them, but they also cost a lot of money to run. Because of this, they devised a method whereby they could increase sales and yet at the same time keep their advertising costs down – they came up with the idea of a Gift card.

What happens is that in order to be awarded a Free Victoria secrets gift card the client must participate in offers promoted by participating companies, if the client signs for these offers many of which are completely free then the client qualifies for the gift card.

We can take a look at a real life example of how this works. The types of offers promoted will vary, as we have said, however in this example we will use an initial offer of a music download, from one of the major music download sites. To complete the offer you will be asked simply for your email address. The next offer could be a free trial sign up for a movie download site. Some of the offers might be free but ask for payment of the shipping costs, others might involve some purchase, but in any case most of the products are products you will be purchasing in your every day life, so why not get an incentive to buy them and walk off with the gift card.

Once you have the card delivered to you, you are completely free to spend the money as you like in a Victoria secrets store or in their online web shop. By completing these offers you can save yourself literally hundreds of dollars.