Thursday, 15 March 2012
Much Awaited: Marie Claire Awards Low Down!! x
Dear Elgin Avenue readers,
A very Happy Thursday to you all - I hope you've all been having a brilliant week!
For those of you who have been reading T.E.A for the past few months you will already be in the know about The Elgin Avenue having won the Marie Claire best fashion blog award 2012!! I have to admit I am still rather reeling in shock from it all and since the awards everything has gone pretty much through the roof! It is so so wonderful to be able to have a wider breadth of contacts in the fashion world and have pow-wows with designers and brands which I really love, and of course it is ab-so-lutely mind-boggling to think that I'll be working alongside an incredible online team at Marie Claire when I begin writing for them soon.
With all the shindigs and what not that's happened since that incredible Tuesday in January (you can see my original post here), I havn't actually been able to post my account of the Award up until now!! You can read Marie Claire's write-up here, Lizzy from Scientist Chic's here and Wendy from Thank Fifi here.
And now for my own personal pics and reflection....!!
Dress: Principles, Shoe Boots: Zara, Metallic Bag: Vintage
Jacket: River Island
Walking in to a room choca block with Marie Claire eds and a whole host of fashion PR's, I would be telling a fib if I said I didn't feel a tad nervous (read: very nervous!) I was so relieved when the lovely Angela Rawstorne from Marie Claire welcomed me to the event and we were able to natter outfits over a breakfast of coffee and mini salmon bagels.
Having been in the running for the award for a number of weeks there was a certain camaraderie amongst all the fellow nominees; as such I got chatting to Wendy Gilmore of thankfifi.com, who was with her lovely husband Chris, and Beth Goodrum of styleguile.blogspot.com both of whom were super duper nice!
L-R Wendy, Me and Beth
Last but not least I was introduced to Trish Halpin, editor in chief of Marie Claire who once I'd gushed that I "recognised her from her editor's photo" chatted to both Wendy and I about our blogs. It was so inspiring to meet members of such a successful magazine who were all so interested in our own start-ups, and who made us feel completely at ease.
Me with Marie Claire editor in chief Trish Halpin
The Awards room - our blogs were projected on to the walls!
And so the moment came when the Awards were to be announced, first up the beauty awards, best beauty blog went to one of my personal favourite's Fleur de Force, who is exactly that, a serious beauty force with over 12,000 followers!! Wowza! Having seen the bar set so high with the beauty category I was even more nervous for fashion category to be announced. Whatever the outcome was to be (and I was pretty much 100% certain it was not going to be The Elgin Avenue given the amaaazing competition!) I was of course delighted to be at the awards either way and so so happy to have made it this far.
SO next up came the Fashion Awards, best fashion Twitter award went to industry icon Sacha Wilkins of Liberty London Girl and finally the Best Fashion Blog Award was announced........
So astounded was I by what happened next that my memory of the whole event is rather hazy! I recall Helen Russell, online editor of Marie Claire, beginning with "And now to our Fashion Award Winner, this blogger writes about everything from Olivia Palermo's style, to her love of ballet pumps and her penchant for lunch at Le Pain Quotidien..." Up until the moment Helen mentioned Le Pain I was racking my brains as to which nominees had written about Miss Palermo and ballet pumps however I realised I probably harked on about Le Pain so often that it could actually be The Elgin Avenue! And low and behold it was!! Well you could have knocked me over with a feather!
Me collecting the award for TheElginAvenue! Wahoo! Photo:thankfifi.com
SO HAPPY!
Grinning from ear to ear (I still haven't really stopped!)
This month's Marie Claire magazine!! Thank you to my gorgeous friend Charlotte who first alerted me to this! Yay!
So astounded was I by what happened next that my memory of the whole event is rather hazy! I recall Helen Russell, online editor of Marie Claire, beginning with "And now to our Fashion Award Winner, this blogger writes about everything from Olivia Palermo's style, to her love of ballet pumps and her penchant for lunch at Le Pain Quotidien..." Up until the moment Helen mentioned Le Pain I was racking my brains as to which nominees had written about Miss Palermo and ballet pumps however I realised I probably harked on about Le Pain so often that it could actually be The Elgin Avenue! And low and behold it was!! Well you could have knocked me over with a feather!
SO HAPPY!
Grinning from ear to ear (I still haven't really stopped!)
And in true Elgin Avenue fashion I duly celebrated - and recovered from the shock - in Le Pain!!
Thank you once again to every one that voted for T.E.A, without your support this never would have happened, and thank you too for your continued encouragement. I am so lucky to have an amazing network of friends, family and of course you my lovely readers who always inspire me!!!
I cannot wait to get cracking with writing for Marie Claire - it really is a total dream!
Now, must get some beauty sleep before my Fash Pack School presentation tomorrow a.m.!
Enjoy the rest of your evening all!
Love, as always,
MB x
P.S. This is how I celebrated in the evening of the award - dinner and cocktails back home with the family! Bliss!
Merino Wool Jumper: GAP
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Omg this is awsome! congrats!!! :) Love your dress and what better way to celebrate than to go out for cocktails and dinner! :)
ReplyDeleteLove your blog!
http://www.stylecrescent.blogspot.co.uk/
xoxo
Hi Chloe! Oh thank you so much that is so sweet of you! Ahh yes cocktails and dinner are definitely my celebration path of choice : )!!
ReplyDeleteSo pleased that you like the blog : )!
Have a lovely Saturday!
MB x