STYLEAID BLOG

Well here I am rested after having a few days of and already my mind is moving onto 2008! Oh well why rest on your laurels when you have another great event to start planning for our 11th amazing year.

I received some great pictures of the fashion today but all the images are so big that I am waiting to make them smaller so that I can post them on here for you to all see…they are from a great photographer Brendan Beirne and I should have them up on here in the next day or so…please check back so you can have a look at them.

I am so pleased this year that I have received some wonderful emails from guests who attended the event to say how much they enjoyed it and that they thought it was the best one yet!  This will give us all some thought about how we can make 2008 an even better event…that is why we start planning now…

Anyway pics to come in the next day or so…

Take care til then.

Mark xox

With just 2 more sleeps to go the excitement is building and with bump in beginning tomorrow the day promises to be huge!

I know I have talked about it lots but the stage is shaping up to be spectacular and we now just have to work out how it is going to get in and all will be great, of course there will be no problems and it will blow peoples minds.

This really is a special year for me, what with a fantastic naming rights sponsor and a stage that is fantastic, but once again to be working with the most amazing team of professional people around.  From Aly and Tony to Annette and Stephanie and all the others on my committee who are putting in the hard yards to really make year 10 a big night.

Plus I have a dear freind who worked with me on STYLEAID 4 years ago flying in from Singapore with his partner to attend as well as one of my best freinds flying over from Sydney with his partner…it will be so nice in the five minutes that I usually get to sit down to have these people here with me for the event.

Speaking of support for me…my partner Trevor has been his usual inspirational, supportive self allowing me to come home grumpy and tired but always being there for me and letting me just be when I have needed to be.  If I did not have him there it would make this all the more difficult.

STYLEAID really has evolved over the past 10 years and with some exciting announcements on the night promises to shine for more to come.

I will endeavour to post a couple more blogs before the night if I get time but if not be sure that there will be a full wrap up on Monday once the event is over and the dust has settled a bit.

We have already had over 100,000 hits this month alone and we are only at the 8th day so once again thanks for tuning in…

Mark xox

Well dear readers it is only 8 more sleeps until the big night and we are frantically working to get things finalised and ready to go on the night.

So the reason for this post is to see if anyone out there who regularly reads this blog might be interested in donating some prizes to our night…

Each year as part of the night, to raise extra funds we have a tombola raffle where our guests purchase envelopes and are gauranteed to win a great prize.  This year we are a little light on in terms of companies who have given us prizes for the night and as you would be aware every little bit helps.

If you are interested in getting your product out to this amazing audience of Perth Fashionistas and those who support the work of this great charity then please email me on mreid@waaids.com

I would love to hear from you.

Mark xox

Well dear reader, you have made the STYLEAID website a hit again this year! Just this month alone (and we have a few more days of the month to go) we have already hit 318,000 hits on the site and I would like to thank you for taking a look at this amazing event and the wonderful WA designers that are going to be showing their fantastic clothes on the night.

 With only 2 weeks left and one of the biggest audiences yet for our 10th year I am getting so excited already.  2007 promises to be amazing and all of your support for the work we are doing is really appreciated.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it has happened once again…STYLEAID 2007 has sold out…with just a few tables still left to pay the fashion fundraising night of the year has officially sold out and the waiting list just in case any of those bookings do not eventuate is getting longer and longer.

I have already put an extra 6 tables into the ballroom and we will now have 720 guests on the night and so those who will miss out will have to make sure that they get in early for 2008!

Sorry if you have not been able to get tickets this year but hope that you will keep up your support and thank you for your great interest in the event this year!

With only 19 days to go the night is really shaping up as one that will really be a memorable experience.

I am pleased to announce that Chelsea Vadala from codebloom florist will this year be doing all of the table centres for the event.

This stunning new florist is located at The Mezz, Shop 4/148 Scarborough Beach Road Mount Hawthorn and is undertaking the task of creating some amazing looks to compliment our theme for this year!

Chelsea and her team will bring her eye for detail and incredible design talents to create some fantastic table centres that will add yet another dimension to the ballroom on the night.

Making a return visit to the stage for STYLEAID Reflectioins is a man who wowed the crowd last year with his singing prowess and stage presence…Hayden Tee will once again host the event as well as entertain the guests with some stunning show stoppers from his cabaret show…with a lead role upcoming in the Sydney State Theatre Opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ we are once again honoured to have him join us for 2007.

Joining him on stage will be WAAPA graduate Jeremy Youett who makes a return to Perth after finishing time onstage in Sydney in Priscilla the Musical.  Another talented young star who has a varied number of stage, screen and TV credits to his name Jeremy will join Hayden on stage to be our 2 hosts with the most and mark another milestone for STYLEAID that sees 2 male hosts for the first time.

Dear Reader of the blog…it is already Thursday and yet another week is zooming by.  I am in discussion with one of our sponsors from last year to once again come on board with another diamond for the treasure chest - some of you may not know but this element of the night is so much fun, people purchase a red wrist band that has a key attached and one of the keys opens the treasure chest and if it is you you win the diamond…will keep you posted on this one.

I also have a vmoto scooter to give away as a door prize to one lucky guest this year to add yet another dimension to the night.

And our VIP packages are available too…if you want to make the best night of the year even better then a VIP package would be perfect…email me for more information and I will let you know about it…

So will keep updating as things evolve…

Have a great day.

Mark

 One of the photos from Michael Chestnutt

Building on the back of last years amazing photography, once again this year we have asked some of the best photographers in Perth to take a garment from one of the top designers in Perth and create a photograph around the theme of Reflections.

To date I have seen about half of them and can tell you that once again they have outdone themselves.

A great range of photographers have put their lenses out there and created some truly original one off pieces of artwork that will be up for sale at both the sponsors night on July3 and then a week later at the Johnston Gallery in Mosman Park and at the event itself.

These amazing visionaries have once again committed to the event and with the support of Tony Nathan who is printing the photos and ART World who are framing we will have another component of the night that will amaze people.

Here you will see a teaser of just a couple of the pics. I hope you enjoy them!

Well work has begun, dear reader, if you are still following this site…on STYLEAID 2007!

Am working on sponsors for next  year…the theme has been chosen and a date is just about to be locked in. You will be first to know all of the news as it is finalised here on the STYLEAID blog.

The committee for the event for next year reconvenes tonight to begin the nitty gritty of getting this fashion fundraising spectacular off the ground on the road to making the tenth STYLEAID the best yet!

So keep checking back to find out first all of the best news on what has evolved into the premier fashion fundraising event in Perth!

Take care till then dear reader.

Mark