Catwalk

September 20, 2011

Erdem

Ahhhhh. Deep sigh. It’s an Erdem show. Time to let the stress of the busiest day of London Fashion Week ebb away for 20 minute Read more »

Michael Van der Ham

For his third solo outing on the LFW runway, Michael van der Ham switched up his fashion game Read more »

Pringle

Alistair Carr is the young man tasked with the brief to reinvent Pringle of Scotland for the 21st century. Read more »

Burberry Prorsum

Did I really need to go to the Burberry Prorsum show? Did any of us? Read more »

September 19, 2011

Unique

Think Liz Taylor’s Cleopatra chasing her Antony into a Nineties hip-hop club, and you’ll immediately get Unique S/S 12 Read more »

Paul Smith

It felt like Paul Smith had stripped his collection back to the bare bones, and what beautiful bones they were Read more »

Mulberry

The charm started with the music-box invitations and continued with the ice-cream van parked outside Claridge’s »

Jaeger London

Jaeger London has a younger feel for S/S 12. Promising “the glamour of the late Sixties and early Seventies jet set and far-flung, exotic destinations” »

Mary Katrantzou

If you are on your third or fourth Mary Katrantzou show, you might have forgotten the impact of seeing her for the first time, as I did yesterday morning. »

Burberry Prorsum

It was fitting that Christopher Bailey chose to move his Burberry show to Kensington Gardens this season – the vast marquee was a stone’s throw from the stamping grounds of the original Chelsea girls who inspired his collection. »

Nicole Farhi

Some shows leave you weary, wishing someone strict had forced an edit on an over-enthusiastic designer. »

Kinder Aggugini

Imagine the fashion chaos that would ensue if Coco Chanel married Sid Vicious – Kinder Aggugini’s latest collection was inspired by this notion and, he said, it’s perfectly embodied by the legendary art collector Peggy Guggenheim: “Her father died on the Titanic and she inherited millions of dollars at 21 – the perfect age to inherit money in New York. »

Matthew Williamson

It was an evening of firsts for Matthew Williamson. The first time any designer had shown in the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern »

Clements Ribeiro

Sugar and spice and all things nice – Clements Ribeiro’s S/S 12 collection was the perfect accompaniment to a little British sunshine yesterday morning in London... »

Marios Schwab

Fashion’s fearlessness has passed across every known frontier.Is there anything it won’t appropriate from the street? We are long used to bondage and fetish, and now… the puffa jacket, that garment beloved by people who say they never pay any attention to fashion. »

Peter Pilotto

The show notes for Peter Pilotto’s collection talked of  “a new tough territory”, but tough is probably the  wrong word, as there was nothing hard about the draped dresses, the dynamic digital prints or the foray into knits that the duo showed first thing yesterday morning. »

Mulberry

It takes a lot to get the fashion and celebrity contingent up on a Sunday morning. »

Charles Anastase

Charles Anastase played us in (out of the pouring rain) to The Doors’ Riders on the Storm, and then let Brigitte Fontaine’s Il Pleut take over. »

Emilio De La Morena

He claimed it was daywear, but if Emilio de la Morena’s sexy, body-con, intricately constructed dresses are anything to go by »

Simone Rocha

For young designers, mash-up is not a state of mind but the state of how you live. »

Erdem

The biggest problem when faced with Erdem’s collection is how to make rapid notes on all those incredible prints, intense colours and finely worked details (perhaps, for a start, someone could come up with a colour sequel to Niki Segnit’s Flavour Thesaurus). »

Matthew Williamson

If you were sitting at a party, you’d want to be placed beside a Matthew Williamson girl. »

House of Holland

“I started with heritage fabrics and then had fun with granny pastimes – bingo, crochet and keeping budgies,” said Henry Holland by way of explanation. »

Todd Lynn

Todd Lynn has long been the go-to designer for anyone favouring a rock’n’roll aesthetic. »

Julien MacDonald

Super yachts and Asian antiquity – not a combination that easily springs to mind, but with Julien Macdonald’s infectious energy and determined glamour-without-measure »

Emilio de la Morena

As a woman of a certain age, my heart leaps when I see a sleeve.For years they have been out of fashion, as a generation of gym-toned triceps were shown off. »

Michael Van Der Ham

Like many designers this season, Michael van der Ham explored velvet for autumn, draping, folding and  wrapping it into a series of dresses in rose pink, fuchsia, lilac, peacock blue and turquoise, before exploring draped tops in the same material, which were paired with fluid silk trousers in matching colours. »

Osman

Grab yourself a pair of Osman trousers, because the man cuts them like a dream. »

Issa

She’s in a celebratory mood, and no one could begrudge Daniella Helayel her dance along to Kool & the Gang, flanked by her star models Yasmin Le Bon and Andrea Dellal. »

Ashish

Cowboy boots painted with Coca-Cola bottles, portions of McDonald’s French fries, horseshoes and cactuses, anyone? Whatever would you wear them with, I hear you ask. »

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