Lisa Carter – The pace of the cat walk changed

I think also walking changed. The fashion of it changed but the way it was done at Elizabeth Pack was that old fashioned walking which was like the kind of 1920s style, which is just very slow, very poised and considered because I know the cat walk in London was very much a kind of strut, and high knees, like lifting your knees high to walk and sticking your hips forward. There was a different walk, but the Elizabeth Pack walk was still hips forward, shoulders back but slow and deliberate and very composed.

Yeah, and you had to make sure that you spent enough time so that all the women got to see the whole outfit at the same … you know you had to make an effort to turn a lot because they’re all sat on all angles, you can’t just aim yourself front, you had to stand to the side and pose, hold the handbag, show the handbag, put it down, hold it by your side and then turn around and then show the other side so they could see everything, and then you made sure that you took your jacket off at the end and held it over the arm so that they could see the whole outfit properly. And then you’d go back again like … there was lots of back and forth so that they could see everything.

Yeah because that’s how they’re shopping, you know, they’re seeing the whole thing. Yeah it was really nice, like with the shoes and the handbag, everything. And then you’d go up and quick, quick, quick, quick (laughs).

Oh, try not to snag your tights in the process (laughs). Yeah it was really a lot of fun.