Style & Design
Originally published on Friday, 23rd September 2011
UJ London Fashion Week Round-Up - S/S'12
EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT
TWAGERISM: the act of cut and pasting a tweet without crediting the source. Certain front rowers (“frowers”) were serial offenders. Such bad manners!
CORINTHIA HOTEL: besides being the coolest catwalk venue (and built off the proceeds of Libyan oil) this became the latest place to provide Planet Fashion with its fix of hot chocolate.
LOUIS VUITTON HEELS: black patent ‘fetish’ vertiginous heels with the three straps with bows coiled around the ankle were faves with the front row. Clearly not designed for walk in?
PRINT: Not just the usual (Erdem, Peter Pilotto etc) but also Burberry, Christopher Kane, Topshop Unique and Felder Felder, from Keith Haring to digi florals.
SEX: Felder Felder’s bondage harnesses; Tom Ford’s pencil skirts and Marios Schwab’s black net eveningwear indicate saucy high-class hooker glamour is back.
AURASMA: LFW’s in-house newspaper, The Daily, supercharged its catwalk coverage so anyone with the Aurasma Lite app on their Smartphone could ‘watch’ interviews with designers and runway footage.
BEYONCE: The megastar took a bow following her House of Deréon show wearing a black sequinned tux, which hid her baby bump. Shame.
LONDON FASHION WEEK’S 5 OF THE BEST
COLLECTION: Jonathan Saunders’ epic prints in an awesome ice cream pastels-meets-vivid colour bolts mashed with fresh sundresses and boxy boyfriend jackets.
SHOW: Meadham Kirchhoff’s uplifting presentation featuring high-kicking Courtney Love-lookalike dancers a ballet Troup of six year olds and fabulous Harajuko-style fashion.
PARTY: To celebrate his new boutique and own brand vodka, Italian mega-designer, Roberto Cavalli, transformed Battersea Power station into Made in Chelsea’s favourite, Boujis. Result? A lethally glamorous cocktail.
SWAG: If seeing Beyoncé wasn’t enough, the goodie bag at House of Deréon’s show contained her new cd, perfume, scented candle, a Smythson diary AND her favourite shade of L’Oreal lipstick (Crazy Fuchsia).
SOUNDTRACK: Bowie by 9.30am followed by an instrumental of The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony at Mary Katrantzou, also Felder Felder’s grime/rock was cool.