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And so it’s over for another season. This week, the great and the good (and, OK, some of the not so good…) of fashion descended on London to see what the city’s ready-to-wear designers will be putting on the backs … Continue reading
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During fashion week, you can find yourself in all manner of beautiful venues – the ballrooms of uber-swank hotels, newly built skyscrapers with glorious London vistas and… the NCP car park on Brewer Street. That’s where Henry Holland chose to … Continue reading
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The sound machine was set to ‘jungle noise’ as the crowd piled into the Todd Lynn show – apt, since the temperature inside the Courtyard Show Space was positively tropical. That crowd included The Kills’ Alison Mosshart and Lady Victoria … Continue reading
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Holly Fulton is excited about her upcoming spring/summer 2013 collection. “It’s based on two important things that happened to me this year,” she says. “One is that I went to LA and the other is that I met Will.i.am.” The … Continue reading
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‘The dress you wear once is as important as the dress you wear 500 times,’ imparted designer Mary Katrantzou during her recent talk at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, ‘as long as you’re doing it all.’ The Greek designer, now … Continue reading
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‘Sam, what’s the goal?,’ asks knitwear designer Jenny Postle of her friend and business partner, Sam Leutton, when discussing the objectives for their fledgling label Leutton Postle. ‘I think, short term, just to continue to show at Fashion Week, go … Continue reading
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For his Spring collection, it was images of teenage girls in their council estate bedrooms that inspired Christopher Kane to create his beautiful and light, flower-spattered pieces. But with the changing seasons comes a change of mood – the Kane … Continue reading
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Pepped up by some pre-show pop stylings and opening with a monologue by what sounded like a Soho drag queen – and a cheesed off one at that – the Louise Gray show at London Fashion Week was an attention-grabber … Continue reading
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Fashion week might look like it’s all beautiful people chit-chatting in the front row, models in gorgeous gowns and cocktails a-go-go – a lot of the time, it is – but it is also proper Hard Work, I’m here to … Continue reading
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Sharp tailoring, of course, was the name of the game at Todd Lynn in the Courtyard space this afternoon at London Fashion Week, but there were a couple of nice surprises in amongst the suiting and [Louboutin] booting. A wool … Continue reading
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As the sky greys over and the spitting rain turns heavier, what better day than today for the Aquascutum show at London Fashion Week? (‘Rain shield’, people, it means ‘rain shield’.) Creative Director Joanna Sykes designed a collection that, bar … Continue reading