Fashion's Night Out

Tonight we went to Vogue's Fashion's Night Out at Covent Garden. I knew about the one in New York, and hoped this one would be full of designers and celebrities too. Alas, it was not. This was its first year and it didn't seem like it had the following that New York has. It was still fun though. We walked to different shops and saw people drinking their free drinks and looking fashionable. It was just fun to get away and do something different that I would never get to do in Utah.

We came upon this shop that happened to also be a flower academy. It was a really cool work space and the lady who runs it was terribly nice. She told us about a promotion to take a hat making class for 90 pounds. We told her we were art students at a University then said, "Oh, then you're probably poor." She said she wished she could let us into the class for free. She was nice. There was also a picture of her with Camilla Parker Bowles on the wall- Prince Charles's wife. Classy.

The Betsy Johnson store was kind of fun. People were giving hand massages and doing makeup. Nothing too fancy.

On a less shallow note, we got to do something incredibly great today. We got to go to a private room in the British Museum to look at original Michelangelo, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt drawings. It was so so cool. They took us back to a locked room and we got to look at them up close. The room itself was also neat. It had high ceilings and the walls were flanked by rich dark wood bookshelves. There was also a balcony that had more ancient looking books. There were people with white gloves. It felt like we were in a movie. Being an art inspector/handler at a museum would be such a fascinating job.

We got to see one of Michelangelo's practice sketches for some images for the Sistine Chapel. There was a sketch he did for the famous Adam/God painting. You could see where he messed up Adam's leg and had to move it down just slightly. It was so cool to look at something that you know these masterful artists have touched. Peter said we could go back and look more. What a great resource that we get to take advantage of here.