THE IRISH AT LONDON FASHION WEEK:Laura Whitmore: journalist and MTV news presenter
“I LOVE fashion week and looking at beautiful clothes and soaking up the atmosphere of the shows,” smiles Laura Whitmore, the MTV news presenter who has been living in London for nearly five years.
From Bray, Co Wicklow, Whitmore studied journalism in DCU, gaining further experience in broadcast journalism in Boston.
While working as a Newstalk intern back in Dublin, she entered an international video jockey competition through Myspace and landed the job with MTV.
This week some of her favourite shows have been Bora Aksu (so much blue, which is her favourite colour), PPQ and House of Holland – “always fun and quirky with nice prints” – and her insider tip is that Burberry bargains can be found in their Hackney outlet shop.
She usually decides what she wants to wear herself, but in December when she heads to Australia to present I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, stylist Angie Smith will help out on the 21 outfits she’ll need for the bigger events.