TJCpart63 June issue:

IT'S FASHION DARLING...
Skinny and gorgeous, a supermodels' life is full of fabulous opportunity and excitement.

This piece has been written for the next issue of Trakehners UK Magazine a 4 times a year publication.

As you can see from the June cover of 'Vague' magazine, horses are the newest fashion iconography.  It wont have escaped your attention that imagery of equines are appearing on fashion items from handbags to jewellery and womenswear....and this is the story of how two 'ordinary' boys from Biggleswade have made it into high fashion.

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...born with star quality, Tom & Henry have been on a detox since January.  Their bodies are temples of sveltness and they are glossy with health.

They are sleeping well, eating healthily: Tom & Henry are both strict vegetarians, having regular cardio-vascular work-outs around their field...a personal trainer is so last season.

It is no coincidence then that they were selected at a casting out of all the horses in the world to become icons of fashion for M&S in the form of front print t'shirts.

The models themselves T&H, who don't get out of bed for less than a bowl of dinner with carrots julienne, expertly chopped by their personal assistant (me), remain very down-to-earth...well they do like to roll!

Fame has yet to take it's toll on them.

So cowgirls...listen to what happened next.

Naturally, as I work in a design room I was able to provide the teams with the perfect subjects for these tops, namely the most gorgeous and charismatic Trakeners of them all...Tom & Henry!!

Images were poured over by the teams and a few made the cut...this was a very nervy time for me I can tell you, I'd have to be the one to break the news to the boys themselves if they'd been unsuccessful in their attempt to go from 'pets' to superstars.

Luckily the creative teams found just the images they were looking for on this blog, and the T&H images were put into work to become a permanent part of M&S fashion.

The first top to appear is the 'Tom' top for Indigo Collection, modelled here next to Tom himself by his PA (me), a modern style for every summer wardrobe and easier to look after than a real horse!

Tom & Henry are trying to keep things 'real', they don't want fame to change them, they just want to be treated like....I was going to say normal horses...but they have never been treated like normal horses...because they are not normal..they are T&H!  They have breakfast in bed some mornings when they're just too famous to get up on their feet to eat which my neighbours find hilarious.  I just slide their bowls under their noses and they eat lying down.

Tom & Henry may be the first Trakehners to make the transition from dressage potentials to fashion models, but they'll never forget where they came from though:  New york, London, Milan, Paris and Biggleswade!

little note...just before you go straight off to the newsagent to try to buy 'Vague' magazine...it's an amusing invention of my own..sorry to disappoint!