Sitting front row at a fashion show could seem a little intimidating.
Not at Zimmermann’s SS24 front row, according to actor and burgeoning style star Saffron Hocking: ‘Nicky [Zimmermann] brought together so many beautiful women that just were all so kind and smiley – it’s such a sisterhood’.
Describing the Zimmermann clothes and woman as ‘effortless, chic, and floaty’, Hocking herself opted for a much darker, vampy ensemble for the runway show. Despite the unseasonably warm October weather, the Londoner paired leather wide leg trousers with a lace crop top, both in black, to sit in the glorious Palais de Tokyo atrium. ‘I felt like a Zimmermann Bond villain, like a really kind Bond villain’, Hocking joked.
Despite this being Hocking’s first official trip to Paris Fashion Week, she is far from a Parisian novice, and plans to spend her evening eating caviar-filled baked potatoes at Caviar Kaspia (which she declares ‘unbelievable’) and drinking ‘all the cocktails’.
Nor is she a fashion novice, having curated a strong team around her to help her look camera-flash ready. Looking after her make-up is Barrie Griffith and her hair, Joe Pickering-Taylor. She describes them both as ‘family’ and waxes lyrical about the getting ready process with them: ‘I love fashion, I love getting dressed up, and I love getting my make-up done. Some people really don’t enjoy that whole experience….But [I love] trying different things and experimenting.
Included in this team is, of course, Hocking-dubbed ‘creative director’ of all her ‘fits, stylist Aimée Croysdill. Known for her work with Nicola Coughlan, amongst others, Croysdill is making a name for herself by creating directional red carpet moments with aplomb.
‘What I love about Aimée is her attention to detail. It’s just second-to-none,’ Hocking tells ELLE UK. ‘She thinks about every single thing. She’s so invested in the hair, the make-up, my nails, what colour eyeshadow, even what length my eyelashes…
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