The coldest fashion week I can remember had me trussed up in knitted layers and Woolrich extreme weatherwear. Despite the biting chill, there was a positive feeling in the air. My highlights included Prophetik’s eco-meets-equestrian menswear, the patent (more…)
The film and presentation format seems to be working a treat for Orla Kiely. Her signature mid-sixties silhouettes – high waisted dresses, Peter Pan collars, school girl coats – were styled on a coterie of bouffant haired, Hitchcocky heroines and choreographed in a three-minute film by Mercedes Helnwein. (more…)
“We’ve been doing long for a couple of seasons now”, Preen’s Justin Thornton told me when I asked why there were no mini-mini dresses on the rails of their informal presentation at St Martins Lane Hotel. “It just feels right for us and more modern.” In (more…)
Aaaand we’re off. The tickets are here and have been divvied up into colour-coded envelopes. The camera, laptop, Blackberry and chargers are on standby and the Berocca is ready and waiting. Best of all, the designers are planning to share the coverage far and (more…)
