Walking Birmingham Fashion Week 2025
Birmingham Fashion Week 2025 started with a bang! An incredible launch party at the really cool Old Library in Digbeth.
There were local artists displaying their work and I was beyond honoured to see myself up for sale! I’d done a shoot earlier in the year with Rahimat Onize Shaibu and she’d edited one of the shots into a really mesmerising piece:
I then had to get to work. I was there as a paid model, and my job was to stand on a plinth as a ‘live mannequin’ for 5 hours! Yes, that’s right! 5 hours! Stood still on a small box with a prosthetic leg… but the pay was great (and I was actually allowed to sit occasionally and go for refreshments.)
The main Birmingham Fashion Week runaway show came a few days later. This year the venue was Millennium Point … and anyone who knows Birmingham and knows Millennium Point knows there are tons and tons and tons of stairs.
So, to clarify, as an amputee model so far this 2025 fashion season, I’ve had to do the slowest of walks in the biggest of heels, I’ve had to stand on a plinth for 5 hours, so why not walk a runway with a ridiculous amount of stairs? I honestly felt like saying: “And now, for my next trick:”
But I did it, and I did it without falling or tripping (a couple of models almost slipped on the stairs, but they were wearing heels and that was just a step too far for me!) Anyway I was honoured to wear some fantastic designers – who didn’t mind my flat shoes for this ‘stairs-heavy’ runway!
Here’s a video where you’ll get an idea of just how long the runway was! And I walked it more than 10 times through the course of the show!
The event was a HUGE success and I can’t wait to see what Birmingham Fashion Week have up their sleeves for next year!
Here’s some BTS so you can get a real feel of how much fun these events truly are:
