London Fashion Week: Must it take a fire alarm to warm the ice queens’ hearts?
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
Pity the bread waiters at London Fashion Week. I’ve seen disdain and I’ve seen hatred, but never so pungent a fusion of the two being beamed, en masse, at one man and his basket.
Fashion Week, generally, is a pretty Arctic affair. In The September Issue, American Vogue editor Anna Wintour states with touching conviction: “People [...]
Trudy’s dedicates fashion show to real women with Real Curves
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Stella McCartney, Sam Taylor-Wood and Daphne Guinness were among the black-clad mourners to arrive at St Paul’s Church in Knightbridge, west London, to celebrate the life of the man who, his friends said, made “all he touched beautiful”.
His father Ronald was joined by his five children at the service – they [...]
London Fashion Week | Burberry’s Christopher Bailey
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
For the second season running, Burberry showed its Prorsum collection at the end of London fashion week. It’s quite fun, all things considered — all the big editors come out, Rachel Zoe turns up, and a bit of quality and excitement gets injected into proceedings. And people harass Christopher Bailey, too. Seriously, the whole of [...]
[Read More]Vintage Fashion promises more glamour than Glastonbury
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
The celebrated English fashion designer Wayne Hemingway knows who won’t be interested in his new summer festival: the teenager “who’s out on the lash, who wants to escape their parents and get plastered and leaves a load of empty tins at their ripped tent”.
Instead it will be for people who want style and glamour, those [...]
De Grisogono on the catwalk at Naomi Campbell’s Haiti relief fashion show
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
Pixie Geldof, Freddie Flintoff and Jo Wood were among the celebrities wearing de Grisogono pieces at Naomi Campbell’s Fashion For Relief charity fashion show for Haiti.
The event took place last week at Somerset House and the proceeds went towards the Haiti relief efforts. Fashion For Relief took centre stage at the British Fashion Council’s official London [...]
London Fashion Week | Burberry’s Christopher Bailey
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
For the second season running, Burberry showed its Prorsum collection at the end of London fashion week. It’s quite fun, all things considered — all the big editors come out, Rachel Zoe turns up, and a bit of quality and excitement gets injected into proceedings. And people harass Christopher Bailey, too. Seriously, the whole of [...]
[Read More]wiggy slams designers for using ‘intolerably cruel’ fur in London Fashion Week collections
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
Twiggy has criticised designers for continuing to use real fur at London Fashion Week.
The model, who fronts Marks and Spencer’s advertising campaigns, said she was disappointed in designers that persisted in using fur from animals kept in ‘terrible and inhumane conditions’.
She called using 20 foxes or 80 mink to make a single coat ‘intolerably cruel’.
I [...]
Lily Collins Checks out London Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 24, 2010
Lily Collins pulls her hair back for a couple of London Fashion Week shows earlier in the week.
The 19-year-old actress checked both the Matthew Williamson show and the Pringle of Scotland Fashion Show at the Serpentine Gallery.
Lily also stopped by the Love Ball, in aid of The Naked Heart Foundation, at The Roundhouse on Tuesday [...]
Our London Fashion Week blog: Day Three
Posted by Lucky on Feb 23, 2010
It was a soggy Sunday, but our spirits didn’t stay damp for long thanks to a breakfast-time pick-me-up in the form of the Betty Jackson collection. Always a YOU favourite, this season Betty showed leather (note to selves: leather is next season’s investment buy) and over-sized coats. We particularly loved the A-line navy skirts and [...]
[Read More]London Fashion Week: Betty Jackson Autumn Winter 2010/2011 show
Posted by Lucky on Feb 23, 2010
Betty Jackson was in what she called ‘workwear’ mode, with military-look jackets with ‘battle-dress’ pockets; baggy, drop-crotch trousers; and oversized T-shirts and tops, accessorized with chunky clogs, stack-heel booties and sling-back brogues.
Peasant scarves added to the workaday feel. Lightweight denim was used for long, over-shirts and loose tunics, worn with skinny jeans, or, conversely, black [...]
London Fashion Week: Twenty8Twelve Autumn/Winter 2010/2011 collection
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
As Covent Garden played host to the BAFTAS, just down the road, on the banks of the River Thames, London Fashion Week was in fierce and stylish competition with its own global superstars, red carpet-worthy gowns and the ‘premiere’ of a new movie, starring Sienna Miller.
Ms Miller played a sexy rock-chick in a short film [...]
It’s black magic as Rocha bewitches with rich fashion drama
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
TWENTY-five shades of black were just about enough for fashion guru John Rocha to hammer home the impact of single-colour dressing.
His exciting and intuitive use of textures and fabrics meant the London Fashion Week crowd weren’t left gloomy.
Tattered georgette ruffles and shredded fabrics with rough salvages created stunning three-dimensional drama on the catwalk at Somerset [...]
Triumph for British fashion at Baftas
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
The Baftas turned into a triumph for British fashion designers tonight, with the red carpet becoming an extension of the London catwalk. A buoyant British fashion scene, and a desire to pay red carpet tribute to combined to make the Baftas a near-landslide for British fashion.
who on Tuesday stage their second catwalk show in London since [...]
McQueen’s former fashion college marks his death
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
LONDON — The London fashion college where Alexander McQueen studied paid tribute to the late designer at its masters degree course show Sunday, through the words of the man himself describing his time there.
Central Saint Martins helped launched the careers of many of Britain’s top designers, including John Galliano, and its graduate catwalk show at [...]
Sarah Brown, who wore Erdem to open London Fashion Week, is just one of his many high-profile fans. The rising star of British design talks to Roya Nikkhah
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
Erdem is so busy putting the finishing touches to a hand-embroidered cashmere-and-silk poncho for tomorrow’s catwalk show that he is oblivious to having missed one of London Fashion Week’s most hotly anticipated moments: what the Prime Minister’s wife would wear to open the biggest event in Britain’s fashion calendar.
When I tell him that, in fact, [...]
