LFW: Backstage Beauty at Hannah Marshall

I mentioned yesterday that I encountered some 'delights and surprises' at London Fashion Week, and one of them was tickets to Hannah Marshall and Felder Felder, two very in-demand shows, courtesy of sponsor Vitamin Water via We Are Social, a PR company that I actually like working with.

Amongst the tickets was a backstage pass for Hannah Marshall. Now, I'm not sure what I did to deserve all of this, and it would have been more typical of me to have discovered this little gold nugget after the show had begun, but I had it and went immediately to the backstage door, flashed my pass and a smile to the nice security man and was welcomed right in. I was one of the first there which was good because it got packed too packed to move later. I saw camera contraptions that looked as if they could receive radio signals from outer space. I saw one model eat. I saw Hannah Marshall who looked incredible and was cool-headed and smiling - despite going on one hour of sleep! - and wearing the most killer shoes. See:

That's not a blur, these shoes were so hot they were pulsating! (Ok, it's a blur. I hate blurry photos of cool things.)

I wound up taking many shots of two models in particular who were having their hair styled. The girl in the header photo was the first face, and I've been trying to figure out if she's Austria Alcantara, so many models look alike. The redhead below, however, has the most unusual face I've ever seen on a model, and I loved that she stared intensely into her own eyes in the mirror the entire time her hair was being done. Make of that what you will but it made for some great shots. The look for the show was long hair, back off the face, and crimped then brushed out to give it volume and subtle texture. The eye makeup was done in grey tones and I overhead someone saying that it faded to grey as the outfits did.