12 trends of London fashion week
1. Goodbye Medium Heel
1-2. Burberry Prorsum 3-4. Charles Anastase 5-6. Jonathan Saunders 7-8. Matthew Williamson 9-10. Topshop Unique
Designers in London as one hurried to get rid of medium heels. In the course of footwear or on a flat sole, or on dizzyingly high heels (on which models could not always be kept). And a lot of shoes on the platform.
2. 70s
1-4. Topshop Unique 5-6. PPQ 7-8. House of holland
The 70s obviously stay with us for the summer. True, this time it is not an elegant blouse of a working girl, but the outfits of the guests are glam and disco. Long skirts, sometimes with jagged edges, tight pants or micro-shorts, and to top it off - puffy afro hairstyles, which Topshop Unique is especially memorable for.
3. Midi and Maxi
1-2. Ann-Sofie Back 3. Christopher Kane 4. Clements Ribeiro 5. Jonathan Saunders 6-8. Mulberry 9. Nicole Farhi 10. Pringle of Scotland 11-12. Richard Nicoll 13. Roksanda Ilincic 14-15. Vivienne Westwood Red Label
Long and very long skirts appeared in almost all collections. There were also short ones, but the length was almost always compensated by volume (see “Ballet”), multi-layeredness, or an abundance of details.
4. Ballet
1-3. Twenty8Twelve 4-5. Topshop Unique 6-7. Osman Yousefzada 8-9. Matthew Williamson 10-11. Mary Katrantzou 12-13. Mark Fast 14. Marios Schwab 15. Julien Macdonald 16-17. Giles 18-19. David Koma 20. Charles Anastase
Tutu skirts, fluffy petticoats and romantic outfits resembling costumes for some “Sylphide”. Periodically there is a bias towards ballroom dancing: skirts overgrow with fringe, feathers, or they have a sharply asymmetric hem.
5. Pleated
1-3. Hannah Marshall 4-5. House of Holland 6. Margaret Howell 7-8. Richard Nicoll
Pleated skirts, dresses and capes-sails. Richard Nicholl has a pleated look on cocktail and evening dresses inspired by the elegant 70s. Henry Holland and Margaret Howell interpret the classic skirts of schoolgirls. And Hannah Marshall has a pleated detail.
6. Neon
1-2. Burberry Prorsum 3. Christopher Kane 4. Giles 5. Louise Gray 6. Mary Katrantzou 7. Meadham Kirchhoff
Glam-rock entailed another tendency - phosphorescent bright colors: at least in detail, but often the total look became piercingly bright in color. “We wanted hearts to beat faster,” Kane said on the backstage. “I always loved the neon colors, but people run away from them like the plague.” However, Kane is not alone here: apparently, from the modest preppy, khaki and camel coats of this season (as well as from grunge), everyone is tired now.
7. Metallic
1. Topshop Unique 2-4. Todd Lynn 5. Jaeger London 6-7. House of Holland 8-9. Burberry prorsum
Burberry chrome leather trench coats, House of Holland glam dresses, Unique unique chic dresses - there were quite a few metalized items in the collections. Almost all possible associations have been collected: from the disco divas at House of Holland to the silver surfer at Burberry Prorsum.
8. Lime
1-3. Burberry Prorsum 4-5. Christopher Kane 6. House of Holland 7. Jonathan Saunders 8-9. Mary Katrantzou 10. Matthew Williamson
Without the details, prints or things piercing green did not go most of the collections. Of course, the main summer color can already be declared orange, but lime will be a pleasant pair to it. Moreover, in some cases, these two colors are combined in one bow.
9. Black and white
1-2. Antonio Berardi 3-4. Osman 5. Paul Smith 6-8. Pringle of Scotland 9-11. Richard Nicoll 12. Twenty8Twelve 13-16. Topshop Unique
Calm alternative to color extremes. Black and white is present in the collections in a variety of ways: a sharp contrast, irregular spots, trim. But the most tempting combination is when translucent black and white are superimposed on each other, like negatives - what Richard Nicoll did.
10. Transparent
1. Giles 2. House of Holland 3. Matthew Williamson 4-5. Paul Smith 6. Peter Pilotto 7-8. Pringle of Scotland 9-11. Richard Nicoll 12. Topshop Unique
Next year, again, we can’t get away from the transparent: the Daily Mail journalist even thinks that designers just want to get into the news headlines thanks to exposed nipples and buttocks. Anyway, the assortment of transparent varies from obscene demonstration of linen at Topshop Unique and Paul Smith to quite decent cases like a transparent top layer on a dress at Pringle.
11. Red
1-4. Acne 5-6. Alice + Olivia 7-9. Antonio Berardi 10-11. Erdem 12. PPQ 13. Twenty8Twelve 14-16. Topshop Unique
Red is manifested in collections in various shades - scarlet, fuchsia, burgundy - and embodies in different forms, from neutral minimalism in Acne to flirting with New Look in Erdem and in the 70s in Topshop Unique. Another way out is if orange and lime seem too extreme, but you want a fresh color.
12. Collars
From left to right, from top to bottom: 1-2. House of Holland 3-4. Paul Smith 5-7. Giles 8. House of Holland 9-10. Erdem 11-12. Giles 13-15. Charles Anastase 16. Erdem 17-18. Topshop Unique 19. Alice + Olivia 20. Charles Anastase 21-22. Pringle of Scotland 23-24. Twenty8Twelve 25. Peter Pilotto 26-28. Pringle of scotland
From preppy-style, it seems, there are only one collar - all buttoned up under the throat. For those who are in the disco and neo orgy, will miss the relaxed, effortless style, designed by Paul Smith's boyfriend shirt.
All coverage from London Fashion Week.