Behind The Scenes On Cunard’s Fashion Week Cruise

Cunard Fashion Week has been and gone, so we thought we would share a behind the scenes look at what was undoubtedly the most fashionable way to arrive at September’s New York Fashion Week.

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The special event cruise, which will be repeated in 2017 after such great success, featured some of fashion’s most reputable names, including Dame Zandra Rhodes DBE, founder of New York Fashion Week Fern Mallis, fashion writer and historian Colin McDowell MBE, and Consultant to the International Fashion Industry, Gail Sackloff OBE.

During the event, Cunard showcased collections from graduates of the world’s most famous fashion college, The Royal College of Art, and emerging new faces from one of London’s top modelling agencies, STORM. The QM2 Transatlantic Fashion Week incorporated fashion shows, fashion exhibitions, audiences with special guests, talks and hosted dinners.

Here’s a closer look behind-the-scenes on the most sartorial sailing of the year.

• A Storm model wears an outfit designed by Royal College of Art graduate Sophie Schmidt under the iconic funnel of Queen Mary 2 in Southampton.
• A flat lay of Joseph Clough’s formal attire, including an Aspinal of London credit card wallet pictured aboard Queen Mary 2 during Cunard’s first Transatlantic Fashion Week.

• Dame Zandra Rhodes and her models pictured during a rehearsal for her catwalk show Transatlantic Dreams aboard Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 in the mid-Atlantic.
• Models pictured during Dame Zandra Rhodes’ catwalk show Transatlantic Dreams on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 mid-Atlantic.

• Storm model wearing Dame Zandra Rhodes after her catwalk show Transatlantic Dreams on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 mid-Atlantic.
• Storm models wearing Dame Zandra Rhodes after her catwalk show Transatlantic Dreams on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 mid-Atlantic.

• Wild Turbot and espelette chilli crevette in the Verandah Restaurant on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.

• Fern Mallis book signing on board Queen Mary 2 during Cunard’s first Transatlantic Fashion Week.
• Dame Zandra Rhodes in conversation with Colin McDowell on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 mid-Atlantic.

• Models pictured during the second of Dame Zandra Rhodes’ catwalk shows Transatlantic Dreams on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 mid-Atlantic.
• Fashion writer and historian Colin McDowell on board Queen Mary 2 during Cunard’s first Transatlantic Fashion Week.

• The Sun Deck and funnel on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.

• Fern Mallis (right) and Colin McDowell in conversation aboard Queen Mary 2 during Cunard’s first Transatlantic Fashion Week.
• Bonnie Rakhit, aka The Style Traveller wears Amanda Wakeley on board Queen Mary 2 during the first ever Transatlantic Fashion Week voyage to New York.