10 highlights of London Fashion Week
Ended London Fashion Week, one of the main events in the fashion industry. Wonderzine led live reports from the event and told where to go in London besides the actual shows. Now we remember the 10 most striking events of London Fashion Week: from collections of shows to unusual scenery and soundtracks.
Collection and styling Ashish
Ashish Gupta, a master of sequins and sequins, showed one of the best collections at London Fashion Week. Starting with a sweatshirt with a giant pink bow and jeans with the inscription "Vogue", lined with large pearls, and ending with dresses and coats of many layers of fabric, pink or gray. They were complemented by sneakers with thick soles with multi-colored LEDs. At the end of the show, a model in a rainbow-colored T-shirt with the inscription "Love Will Win" came out on the catwalk - so Gupta supported sexual minorities. This exit was unexpected - and, we note, pleased every single guest of the show.
Speech by Paloma Faith at the Burberry Prorsum Show
Burberry is known for the ability to perfectly maintain the balance between tradition and modernity. For example, the brand focuses on the line of classic trench coats, invented for the military at the beginning of the last century, and broadcasts shows online. One of her important projects is the support of British musicians: Christopher Bailey helps them shoot video and record albums. On the last Burberry show, the British also performed, albeit with a name. At first, Cara Delevingne and Edie Campbell went under Ed Harkort and Rhodes tracks, and the final of the show was remembered by Paloma Faith’s “Only Love Can Hurt Like This”: under her models who participated in the show walked in multi-colored woolen capes.
Scenery Meadham Kirchhoff
Ed Midem and Ben Kirchhoff never thought about commerce - at least this could be judged by their collections. In the new season, designers released the fragrance with Penhaligon's, and their show began with a series of tweed suits, reminiscent of Chanel, of course. The Meadham Kirchhoff models - and these were mostly children and ordinary girls of about twenty - defiled in very nice decorations: among giant hearts and gold-colored tinsel.
Marques'Almeida collection
To come to the mark show at 9 am, you need to love her. Marta Marquez and Paolo Almeida have a lot of fans: half an hour before the start of their show Topshop Space at Tate Modern was filled with guys in a worn ragged denim. Before their show, one thing is always afraid: will designers be able to go beyond the scope of aesthetics and show something besides the very worn ragged denim. Every time they do it. In the new season, suits of scarlet and blue velvet, silk shirts with an asymmetrical hem and woolen dresses with thin feathers adjoined with denim robes and trousers. Add to this multi-colored bags of ponies and fur sneakers - and get one of the most solid and interesting collections of the season.
Colored fur everywhere
It seems that colored fur has become an integral part of all London shows. He seemed to be in everyone: from Osman Yusefzad, who showed blue and blue scarves, and ending with fur coats made from blocks of red and pink fur Topshop Unique. Of the new techniques here are the blocks of colored fur on the pile and / or the back: so did the mentioned Marques'Almeida, using burgundy and yellow fur, and Lucas Nascimento.
Street casting Nasir Mazhar
This season, Nazir Mazhar made his debut on the podium - before that, the designer had arranged only presentations. The remaining features of his work remained the same: the same Anna Trevelyan stylizes, friends and acquaintances of a young designer go to the podium. Perhaps completely different girls - Asian and mulatto, low and high, skinny and slightly with uniforms - bombers, basketball shorts and caps with Nasir Mazhar masks go even more than professional models.
The most non-profit collection by J. W. Anderson
Many London designers are experiencing a kind of crisis. Their collections have always taken the market hard, and for this season it is clear that many here, starting with Edan Choi and ending with Michael van der Ham, want more sales. Jonathan Anderson is one of those who are obviously not going to lean towards commercial clothing, at least in the main collections. Dresses in heavy velvet flooring, satin coats with a wide belt like a kimono, and ribbed colored shoes are things that might even make Suzy Menkes and Alexander Hilary even think for long.
KTZ Soundtrack
Marjan Pezhoski and Sasko Bezovski always approached work with humor. As a soundtrack for the women's collection, they used a remix of, perhaps, the most corrosive track Inna - "Hot". Rapper Timati, who was sitting in the first row of the show, appreciated. In the Kokot to Zai collection, in Russia, almost not represented, - down jackets of complex shape and dresses, embroidered with pieces of glass. It did not go without branded massive jewelry, which, it turned out, is not difficult to wear - KTZ fans danced in them at a party after the show.
Christopher Kane Mastery
Christopher Kane - one of the designers who generate dozens of ingenious ideas for any one collection. In the new season, he works with nylon, which goes not only to casual jackets, but also to perforated evening dresses, adds neon sweaters to them and, of course, is inspired by the future and shows 3D outfits from the same many layers of fabric shown by Ashish Gupta . These things are done so skillfully that you will not reproach.
Newbie shows: Fashion Scout and Fashion East
London is traditionally rich in shows for novice designers, and this is the only capital in which there are a dozen platforms for them. The two main ones here are Martin Roberts Fashion Scout and Lulu Kennedy Fashion East. This time at the FS collections were represented by Yulia Kondranina and Xiao Li, as well as Ukrainian designers: Kolomoyets, Pascal, Minochkina. FE was held on the last day of the week and presented three designers: Louise Alsop, Helen Lawrence and Ashley Williams, whose names will probably soon be on everyone’s lips.