It is full swing ahead when it comes to the toppling numbers of fashion winged events that are taking place, from collection launches to grand openings; it’s a pile up on the social calendar. So as much as I view these soirees as an opportunity to douse myself with alcohol and laugh…hyena tone at jokes I cannot fathom (one of the few ruses to show interest in one’s diabolical conversation) I found a new interest.
It was at an event held in Palladium that both my Editor and I struck a spontaneous chord when we both uttered the same musings, “Look at that odd couple,” to which I replied, “I know, she looks like a towering porn star and he looks like a shallow midget!” (Pardon my graphic sense of word usage!) Noticing the oddity, I become more observant on the matrimonial front. A dapper gent with genial style paired with a rundown roadie – hardly appealing, especially when his date was scoffing down canapés as if she was just released from solitary confinement.
But my sightings affirmed the adage, ‘opposites do attract’. We tend to make pairings based on the celebrity status who appear on Page 3- Kate Moss with her bad boy quelling, then there’s the fashionistas elite – Posh and Becks. But do these Mr and Mrs Right exist outside the paps periphery?
“It’s a tricky one,” says my best pal, a.k.a my personal relationship expert. “You would think when someone has so much style and oozes great charisma that they would tend to filtrate that into their lusting for the opposite sex. But that hardly ever happens.”
Rightly so! But on home turf too, models when paired with their boyfriends - the contrast is so, so vast. “Personally for me when you are surrounded non-stop by those in the industry you, want to get away from that particular arena. You want to have someone that is an outsider, someone who will open you up to other experiences, different to the ones you are usually conformed to,” says my model friend.
Admittedly true, but, personally for me, with one of my traits (which falls mostly in my disadvantageous characteristics) is that I, often suffer from a verbal diarrhea (so much for British humour!), so one hopes I don’t fall for a mute, i.e. someone who seldom natters – that’s an opposite I wouldn’t like to attract!