{"id":35,"date":"2009-08-11T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-08-11T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:33:17","slug":"converse-models-agency-belfast-launch-at-the-ivory-10th-aug-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/08\/converse-models-agency-belfast-launch-at-the-ivory-10th-aug-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Converse Models Agency Belfast Launch at the Ivory 10th Aug 09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long absence from the Belfast social scene (approx 21 years!!) my niece and I ventured to the big smoke last night at the kind invitation of Donal Doherty to attend the launch of the Converse Models Agency.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-37\" title=\"Converse Model Launch 011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Converse-Model-Launch-011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine and me waiting for the fashion show to start.\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine and me waiting for the fashion show to start.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The venue was the fabulous Ivory Restaurant \/ Bar on the 3rd Floor at the House of Fraser, Victoria Square where we were greeted with welcome drinks and a goodie bag (always a good start).<\/p>\n<p>Belfast turned out in force to support the launch with the press well represented.\u00a0 We were treated to a fashion show supported by HOF &#8211; not to forget hair by Regis, the make up by Estee Lauder and the compare for the evening Citybeat&#8217;s Robin Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment was in the form of new up and coming girl band Voodoo &#8211; what great girls &#8211; happily had their pic taken with my neice &#8211; and can they sing &#8211; they were awesome &#8211; in the words of Randy Jackson &#8211; you can blow!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-60\" title=\"Converse Model Launch 018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Converse-Model-Launch-0181-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Getting the show started\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>I had the pleasure of meeting the\u00a0 lovely Denise Drummond Scott and may I say a huge thank you to Feile FM for all the support for Whats On Ni -listen live online at <a onmousedown=\"UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &quot;ab91f165a3f44a4c370ac27097596a4a&quot;, event)\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiomonitor.com\/webradio\/playlists\/FeileFM.m3u\" target=\"_blank\"><span>http:\/\/www.radiomonitor.com\/webradio\/pla<\/span>ylists\/FeileFM.m3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all a great night was had by all and the party was just getting started when we left at 10pm.\u00a0 It all ran like clockwork and may I just say that Melissa who manages the Agency is probably one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_58\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 160px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-58\" title=\"Converse Model Launch 051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Converse-Model-Launch-0514-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Me with the lovely Voodoo girls\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me with the lovely Voodoo girls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-50\" title=\"Converse Model Launch 022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Converse-Model-Launch-0221-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Citybeat's Robin Elliott, Compare\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citybeat&#39;s Robin Elliott, Compare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-51\" title=\"Converse Model Launch 025\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Converse-Model-Launch-0251-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Catwalk Action\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More action from the catwalk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-70\" title=\"Converse Model Launch 028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Converse-Model-Launch-028-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Donal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71\" title=\"Converse Model Launch 039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Converse-Model-Launch-039-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Converse Model Launch 039\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long absence from the Belfast social scene (approx 21 years!!) my niece and I ventured to the big smoke last night at the kind invitation of Donal Doherty to attend the launch of the Converse Models Agency. The venue was the fabulous Ivory Restaurant \/ Bar on the 3rd Floor at the House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/08\/converse-models-agency-belfast-launch-at-the-ivory-10th-aug-09\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}