Matthew Williamson’s woman is all partied out and ready to be a grown up. This was one of the most surprising moments in London fashion week, and a very good one at that. This collection had me doing a double take. Right? Finally! Mr Williamson emerges. Look after look, girl after girl…Clean. GASP. Cool. GASP.…
Read MoreLFW; King Kane.
Christopher Kane is having a moment. With bright lights and pompoms to boot. And with the power of PPR behind him, this is just the beginning of great things to come, judging by the star collection he turned out. His is, a talent certain to go far beyond his Topshop collaborations. He did that, and…
Read MoreLFW; An Appropriateness- Wickstead, Saunders and Rocha.
Remember that age old advise from mother on dressing up? Chest or legs never both? This was a lesson in perfecting appropriation; even when something is on show, there is an illusion of propriety. The Wickstead woman is a snob, an upper class snob and she works it in her look. Her superiority is enchanting and somewhat…
Read MoreLFW; An Understated Confidence by Richard Nicoll
Richard Nicoll is feeling for the new kind of cool woman and this is how he wants to dress her. I ain’t mad at that. Nothing is sexier than a confident woman. This was easy rider meets super high fashion which resulted in a most appealing form that stopped a good several inches shy of…
Read MoreLFW; Look to Love; Luxe be a Lady
She’s London’s answer to New York’s Power Player. Her look is understatedly cool and purposely sexy but without being obvious about it; if you can strike the balance then you know what I mean. If you can’t…oh well then. Its eschews the casual with an ingeniously high fashion lean, an easy type of luxury; day…
Read MoreLFW. Look to Love; The Charm Offensive.
London is known as the rebel at heart of the fashion industry; we do things the way we want to, there’s never an overarching theme, you never know what to expect from one show to the next. But what we do best in London, is put things a little to the left; offbeat. Something gets…
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LFW; SSI3- Burberry Prosum
Christopher Bailey is a really cool guy. And as a designer he is simply genius. Here’s the thing; he gets the concept of Burberry as a brand steeped in heritage but he lends it his touch of cool. He gets the quintessential Burberry customer and adds that touch of cool to their wardrobe. Its why…
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LFW, SS13- Alice Temperley
Anytime I think of Alice Temperley, until this show, I always think of a certain Lady-in-Waiting (can we call her that?), with the trend and hipness. Alas! for SS13 Alice Temperley did nothing short of really blow us all away with her very elegant and very beautiful collection, which was aptly themed a Return to…
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LFW, SS13- Roksanda Ilincic
Roksanda Illincic is a fabulous designer who will go on to do even more fabulously wonderful things and have a career that will be so overly fabulous, fashion won’t know what hit it in its fabulously perky behind. Just so freaking fabulous. God I hate that word, and I will get into trouble with the…
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