Fashionistas got caught in an elevator at Fashion Week and went Snapchat and selfie crazy
What do a group of fashion kids do when they get trapped in a elevator for 40 minutes? They get on the snaps and selfies like nobody's damn business.
In a microcosm of fashion hell, Christian Wilkins (the son of Australian morning show legend Richard), Australia's Grazia Entertainment Editor Nicholas Carolan and a bunch of other fashion-forward types were caught hot and sweaty in an elevator in Sydney, Australia, for an eternity.
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Not knowing how to deal with the possibility of death by fashion, the squad used their final moments wisely by sending out S.O.S. Snapchats and pouting what could have been their final pouts. They also got their Beyoncé twerk on.
"When it first happened I think everyone was a little panicked ... I asked everyone if they preferred Rihanna or Beyoncé and we figured that Bey was calmer so we all just listened to some music, took plenty of selfies to document the process," Wilkins told Mashable Australia via email.
Wilkins said he scored a few new Snapchat followers due to the incident and formed an unbreakable bond with his new clique. His priorities definitely came into focus.
"There were nine of us in there and the lift just jolted shut and this siren went off," Wilkins told Yahoo 7 Entertainment. "We still had wi-fi so I guess that's all that matters."
The group had just finished checking out the show of Australian fashion designer Christopher Esber at a hot yoga studio in Sydney's Potts Point when disaster struck. How were they going to make the next show on Fashion Week's tight schedge?
Pedestrian.TV, the website at the epicentre of youth culture and Aussie lingo that no one over the age of 19 can understand, watched on from the sidelines and helped get the story out to the concerned masses.
In good news for the future of hip local fashion brand Romance Was Born, the death trap experience ended when a man climbed through the roof to save the fashion pack.
And that, friends, is how to make yourself known at Fashion Week.
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