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I was delighted when I finally grasped my catwalk tickets in my hand and entered the stunning courtyard of Somerset House for Fashion for Relief.


The evening commenced with celebrities and well-known entrepreneurs like Philip Green, together with members of the public lucky enough to get tickets, drinking champagne (or in my case water!)


As Attia and I seated ourselves, taking photographs on the way, we were happy to discover that our seats were on the end of the 3rd row back with an great view of the catwalk.


To begin with Trudie Styler, activist, environmentalist and wife of Sting, gave an introduction to the catwalk show. This was followed by a thought-provoking speech by Jonnie Horner, co-founder of Haiti Hospital Appeal, raising awareness of the tragedy in Haiti and the precarious situation of mothers-to-be. Next, Sarah Brown, patron of the White Ribbon Alliance, explained about the charity's work promoting safe pregnancy and childbirth. Before the parade of fashion, we were treated to a song by Beverley Knight.


Opening the show, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, along with Annabelle Neilson, paid tribute to late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen by wearing blue mini dresses from his last collection.


The music cleverly changed to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance as Girl's Aloud star Nicola Roberts with her over-exaggerated hair, had her turn on the catwalk, followed by members of The Saturdays and Pixie Geldof, daughter of Bob who was sitting opposite me, shaded from the glare of the photographers by his brown hat.
A gallery of celebrities followed including David Gandy,

Freddie Flintoff, Erin O'Connor, Alexandra Burke, Amberand Yasmin Le Bon, Geri Halliwell, Ronnie Corbett, Jo Wood, Jade Parfitt, Denise Van Outen, Roisin Murphy, DameShirley Bassey, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan and James Corden.

The event concluded with an auction. One of the main pieces was a dress by the late Alexander McQueen made for Kate Moss, shown to the right on Pixie Geldof. The dress was purchased for £100,000 by Philip Green whilst sitting next to him Kate Moss was in tears.

Other items in the auction included works of art by Damien Hirst, Mark Evans and Tracey Emin, jewellery from Stephen Webster, sponsor of Haiti Fashion Relief night, and a gold dress designed by Vivienne Westwood and modelled by Shirley Bassey on the catwalk.

Finally, a Lotus car designed by Naomi Campbell was up for grabs but they ended up by auctioning three of the cars.

This event raised the phenomenal amount of over £1million for Haiti. Overall it was a once in a lifetime experience which I will never forget.

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