London Fashion Week SS10: Peter Jensen



Peter Jensen’s collections never work as a collection for me until I know the context. Then it all makes sense. For SS10 he played with proportions in his presentation. With many designers choosing the presentation format over a show, it gives the designer more freedom in how they want their collection to be seen and also makes for many more art-fashion crossovers.

In Jensen’s case, he designed a collection, photographed it on models, shrunk them down and made his collection in miniature and then let artist Laurie Simmons photograph them in her dolls houses. The resulting larger-than-life photos were displayed in a presentation at the ICA with real models posing against them (to then be photographed by us). Surreal and fun!





Laurie Simmons

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George Davies’ next move



George Davies’ GIVe has had a fair amount of pre-launch press. Not only has it had a huge push in partnership with Grazia, but The Guardian, The Mail, The Telegraph and The Express have all given over column inches to the new brand which launches tomorrow. So what’s it all about? (more…)

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LFW ss10: What I liked from the menswear day



Menswear isn’t usually my forte but I love to look at it to see what elements I can steal for myself. From Katy Eary I would take the furry jackets, from Martine Rose these colour-block patchwork shirts with panels of pinks, greys and black-and-white polka dots.

Casely-Hayford’s Kings of the Kingsland collection was meticulously styled and cast. His different take on tailoring with elastic hem trousers, neckscarves, Crombies, trenchcoats and lounge slippers all caught my eye.

Marc Hare from Mr Hare has one of my favourite menswear blogs and his shoe collection brought a steady stream of eager onlookers. All his shoes were original and brilliant but especially this flat slipper-like slip-on.

As I’ve said before, menswear design always seems so much more functional than womenswear. If only we could have a womenswear take on H by Harris’s quilted leather jacket with its zip-on-zip-off backpack.

[Shoe pic by Mr Hare]

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