#lqfs

Listen to the life-changing love and energy in that room! 🖤

Friday was one of the most important, formative, beautiful days of my life. Never in a million years would baby me (or even two weeks ago me) have thought one day I’d be walking a catwalk for a London fashion show and yet here we are. It feels weirdly fitting I spent this morning reading through some forwarded psychiatric notes from childhood appointments I have no memory of, talking about how difficult that strange little ‘boy’ found it to fit in and make friends or enjoy ‘boy’ things – I wish I could take this video back and show them where we end up.

Representation is so supremely important, now more than ever, and that @londonqueerfashionshow has created a platform that demonstrates the many shapes and forms beauty and love and life come in for us and for every generation that follows is beyond a blessing – thank you for the honour and privilege to have been asked to participate in it.

And for such a supremely talented and gorgeously sweet trans-owned designer too, no less! Thank you @narclsslsm for having me, and for walking hand in hand with me – the love you hear in that room for your hard work and talent and kindness is so deeply earned.

Thanks @calliefx for the gorgeous makeup and repeat touch-ups and @harnessandmane for the exquisite hair-work (and 52 hairpins – I counted them aha!)

And thank you @aisha_shaibu_lenoir @lucylondonofficial @robynexton and anyone ive missed or forgotten cos I’m bad with names thank you and ily and I’m sorry and thank you 🖤

“The London Queer Fashion Show is about creating a space for brands that are challenging and expressing how young and queer audiences are already seeing their identity. We’re tired of dealing with the restricting gender norms the fashion industry has been defined by for decades. - Robyn Exton, HER Founder