To celebrate 175 years of transatlantic travel, Liverpool, the site of the world’s first scheduled ocean steamship travel on 4th July 1840, came a creative culture clash between Britain's home-grown music, fashion, art, design, and film and those that trickled over from across the pond.
We are immensely proud of what took place on the weekend of the 4th and 5th July 2015 on the waterfront of Liverpool. Hundreds of thousands of people turned up to watch and help Liverpool break Mexico City’s Guinness World Record for the most models on a catwalk. We smashed it and 3651 beautiful people of all ages, size, shape and background smiled, danced, cartwheeled and even kung–fued down the catwalk. We are eternally grateful to Liverpool Council for giving us the chance to do this, the hundreds of people involved in organising the event, the sponsors and of course all who got up on the enormous catwalk and made those 4 hours so moving and unforgettable.
The build up to Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 recreating that historic first passenger crossing of the Atlantic, 175 years ago to the day, was just brilliant. On a balmy summers evening, Greg Wilson played a super (shortened due to the success of the audience participation in the catwalk) set of disco that evoked that special relationship between Liverpool and New York, followed by some pomp and circumstance by the Band of the Royal Marines Scotland who gave us a tailored set from Gershwin to Rule Britannia. When the beautiful big lady sounded her ships horn and the thousand of passengers assembled on the decks of the QE2 joined in with the thousands on the pier head singing New York, New York the tears flowed.
A short film made by the sponsor of the T175 Catwalk Show!
Wayne has wrote a few words about the festival here and on our blog here.