LFW Day Five: Show Overview

You could expect the last day of womenswear at London Fashion Week (Wednesday is menswear) to be a bit of a letdown. Everyone’s a little bit tired, a little bit hungry, having seen over sixty-five shows & presentations so far, and the bar for excellence gets set higher when you’ve got shows like Jonathan Saunders earlier in the week to measure against.

Lucky then, that Mary Katrantzou showed first at the Topshop space in Old BillingsgateREAD MORE

LFW Day Four: Show Overview

Day four of London Fashion Week saw many of the designers who showed today eschew the British Fashion Council Show Space at Somerset House for venues in locations ranging from Kensington to Billingsgate.

We started the day very early with a backstage conversation with David Koma, a couple of hours before his show. This was a collection that really benefits from being seen close up, as the quality of his construction is outstanding, and what looksREAD MORE

LFW Day Three: Show Overview

Day Three of London Fashion Week, and we’re starting to swap in flats for heels, scoop our hair into ponytails, and hide our dark circles behind sunglasses. So far we’ve covered around about forty-five shows, and lost count of how many backstage interviews we’ve conducted with everyone from hair & make-up artists to the designers themselves.

Mulberry made our English hearts beat faster with a pitch perfect collection, aimed directly at our wallets. (It’s hard toREAD MORE

LFW Day Two: Issa celebrates on the catwalk

Yesterday afternoon, the eyes of the world’s media was on Daniela Helayel’s Issa label. That’s because it’s best known to the general public for dressing Kate Middleton. Her cobalt blue engagement dress and several much-photographed evening gowns have all been by Issa.

As the fleet of Fashion Week Mercedes arrived in the courtyard of Somerset House to drop VIPs and editors off for the show, the paparazzi surged, sticking their telephotos in the car windows, hopingREAD MORE

LFW Day Two: Show Overview

The rest of the Northern Hemisphere may be thinking vaguely about its spring summer wardrobe, but here on Planet Fashion we are now firmly into AW2011, and a couple of trends are starting to appear.

Namely an eye-popping tomato red, which we’ve seen at Betty Jackson, Jaeger, John Rocha, Issa & Jaeger today, and a gothic black lace story, which was evident at John Rocha, Clements Ribiero and Betty Jackson. It’s been a day of contrastsREAD MORE

LFW Day One: The Overview

Day One of London Fashion Week was a gentle introduction to the season. With Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren both showing in New York yesterday, most of the big gun editorial names have yet to make it to Somerset House, let alone the off-schedule venues, and the (very hard) wooden benches favoured at the various show spaces this year were filled with the on-line and newspaper journalists who have to file from opening day, alongREAD MORE