To start the day, I was invited to Selfridges’ personal shopping department to have free reign over the whole store, choosing any items to make up three favourite looks of mine. Yep, that’s right, anything I wanted to make up three looks (no, I didn’t get to keep them!) I never thought I’d have trouble going shopping, but I’m surprised to say it was a hard decision. I was so out of my comfort zone, picking out pieces from Alexander McQueen, Mary Katrantzou and Marc Jacobs was more difficult than I thought – I mean, I actually got to touch them!

After picking out three top looks – I chose an amazing Marc by Marc Jacobs jumpsuit, an amazing lust-have Mary Katrantzou shirt dress and my final outfit, a preppy-yet-edgy look featuring some incredible Alexander McQueen heels. Doesn’t my gorgeous model Rachel look beautiful? I felt like the final outfit was very Manchester representative; smart-casual with that little bit of blingy edge. As everyone else said, it was very “me”!

The ever-so-lovely Lucy of Lulutrixabelle was also part of the film, and it was such a pleasure to actually meet her properly – hello, blogger idol! She was able to give her view of Manchester fashion vs London fashion and also picked out a couple of looks, which she based on “front row” suitable outfits. I gotta say, her looks were very “her” as well! Georgina (the personal stylist from Selfridges) thought it was kinda funny we both styled our looks as items we’d wear when she is so good at choosing items to match her clients’ personalities. But, like I said in my Cosmo Blog Awards post, I think style is SUCH a personal thing.

After choosing our favourite outfits at Selfridges, we all headed back to the hotel and into the Opus One bar/restaurant for the Selfridges’ Style Lounge, where we were interviewed as to the rationale behind our looks and what we loved about Manchester. Obviously, I sang Manchester’s praises and said how delighted we all are that the first Vogue Fashion Night Out in Britain outside of London was happening here. As y’all know, I love making Youtube videos over on my channel (subscribe here for free!) and so I really had so much fun making this video. It really helped that everyone was so lovely and friendly – shout out to Will the camerman!

The plan of the day was to bring a couple of friends and have our hair and makeup done back at the hotel before going out for #VFNO, so I invited two of my best friends, Mel and Sarah, along for the afternoon. Unfortunately, I was so busy filming that I missed out on the MAC make-up artist (and even missed a couple of press calls for Vogue – boo!) but Mel and Sarah were very impressed with their makeovers. I’m biased – I reckon they look gorgeous all the time! As the hotel is has the Sienna spa with eight treatment rooms, a huge swimming pool, (the only one of its kind in a central Manchester hotel) and a whole host of fancy spa rooms – steam room, sauna, Jacuzzi, Resul steam cleansing room, make-up room and nail bar – it only seemed appropriate. Hopefully I’ll get to try them all out soon!