Mulberry & Grazia Event

Hot on the heels of the Mulberry show at LFW.....Mulberry hooked up with Grazia magazine to host a one off preview evening at the Spinningfields store in Manchester.

Luckily Myself and some friends managed to get on the guest list and headed down last Wednesday after work.

We were in for a treat, first we were met on the door by some hunks in trunks offering sherbet prosecco cocktails!
Which were scrummy ;-)
Although the classy ladies that we are, we soon found a stash of beers and made a beeline for those!!
Then another pretty boy (far too beautiful to be straight however!) offers mini hot dogs, mini fish and chips and potted prawns...de-lish!

Me and Sammy 

 The store was full to the brim of beautiful people (and two old dears that looked like something off Benidorm!!) all clutching onto a Mulberry bag of course (I must have looked odd with my Marc Jacobs on my arm.....I am so loyal tho!!) and enjoying the sights of mulberry bags everywhere!!

We started the night as we meant to go on, trying to grab ourselves a free gift or two! Up for grabs was this seasons new travel bag in oak..a beautiful bag that has my name written all over it, all you had to do was fill in your name and pop it in the tombola and a draw would take place later in the evening (so me and my friend Sammy filled out two forms...oooops! and crossed our fingers!!!)

Abigail enjoying a drinky

 The theme for this season at Mulberry is a good old fashioned British seaside holiday...think ice cream on the beach, sticks of rock and stripy deck chairs. In the store they had one of those grab machines, like the one you get in the arcades, where you spend all your 20 pence pieces trying to win a crappy teddy that falls apart when you get it home! But instead, inside this machine was Mulberry bracelets, Vouchers, and no spending of your change required! Absolutely gutted that we didn't win anything...my sense of direction is rubbish I have realised!! However, not long till that bag draw :-)

After a couple more drinkies, we spied a corner in the store where you could play with some props, which consisted of blow up animals, silly glasses and beach balls in front of a video camera, then a clever man would turn our 10 second play about into a little flip book, Hilarious!!!

Where's Wally?? I mean Sammy?!!!

After our frolicking around it was getting very hot in the store as more and more people poured in..so we headed outside for some fresh air, and where the ice cream van just so happened to be!!! I don't think your actually  meant to eat at these fashion events, but it was the most gorgeous strawberry ice cream with sprinkles Ive tasted!! ha!

Next we heard that the draw for the bag was about to take place...so we ran back in with fingers and toes crossed!! and the winner is.....................
ummmmmm excuse me but my names not Becky something or other..you were meant to call out Rachel Moss!!! Oh well, best get saving instead!!

On that note most people turned and left!! ha!! no free bag and we were out of there too, thanks for the free drinks and nibbles, but its time for us to grab our goody bag and head home (although we didn't head home, we went to Jamie's Italian for more drinks and nibbles!!)

The goody bag was cute, a canvass shopper filled with make-up, stickers, a £50 off voucher, and sweets.

 We also took a few balloons (for my niece of course :-)) and made our way off to Jamie's!

Maxi skirt and metallic t-shirt - Topshop, Marc Jacobs Francesca hobo

Thanks Mulberry & Grazia we had a ball!