The Scad Fashion Show was supposed to be the highlight of the year,we were very excited and I had luckily been given a ticket by my new friend in Fashion Dean Sidaway from London who had kindly offered to take me. The tickets it turned out cost $50.00 and Mike and a friend Julie Lieberman went as a couple ! but ended up paying $100.00 for the worst seats in the house, no proper view, a fan next to them and a spotlight to interfere with the proceedings . To crown it all the gentleman shoe designer Manolo Blahnik had come to collect a life time award spoke for twenty seconds and forgot he was in Savannah ! I felt cheated and most of all for the students and parents who had travelled great distances in the USA for a fifty minute extravaganza that sadly did not live up to its expectation. I remember many a speech at graduation at the University of Portsmouth where artists and designers, the great and lovely Chancellor, the actress, Sheila Hancock took time to encourage and inspire the next generation of talent.
However what was a better night was the SCAD performing arts excellent production of The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Hair at their theatre, in downtown Savannah. Mike was in his absolute element and tapped along to every song. The theatre was full and we even got up at the end and danced on the stage with the hunky man in the photo!
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