London Fashion Week: Mulberry

Mulberry put on a fabulous show. The line embraces color in all the right ways while still holding on to the essential elements of blacks and neutrals that put us all in the mood for autumn. I can already smell the fall leaves on the sidewalk. Enjoy!

London Fashion Week: Mulberry

Mulberry put on a fabulous show. The line embraces color in all the right ways while still holding on to the essential elements of blacks and neutrals that put us all in the mood for autumn. I can already smell the fall leaves on the sidewalk. Enjoy!

Spring/Summer's Pastels

Pastels are a huge trend for Spring/Summer 2010 and were completely unavoidable in every city during fashion month. The ice-cream colour palette is so refreshing and dreamy - I'm already looking forward to wearing these floaty girly numbers again. It's nice to have toned down from all the extreme acid bright that we've seen in previous seasons too.

Yes, dark boring colours can hide a multitude of sins and are always 'fail safe', but it's so much more inspiring when people play with colour and pull it off, it shows a lot more creative flair. And who really wants to look dull, in the fashion world especially?

London

Christopher Kane, Burberry Prorsum and Josh Goot

New York

Cynthia Steffe, Jason Wu and Marchesa

Paris

Giles, Alexander McQueen and Louis Vuitton

Milan

Just Cavalli, Moschino and Versace

I'm done with winter already and it's only just really hitting... Always have been and always will be a sunflower :)

Nice

I have a random craving for a floaty maxi skirt at the minute. I think I saw someone wearing one during London Fashion Week and felt inspired. This picture has made the craving stronger, especially with those ADORABLE Chloe flats. No high street shop has even come close to copying them yet. *sob*

Images: Style.com

In case you're a bit behind

please please watch this!

http://burberry.vogue.co.uk/

Oh the pastels, oh the socks and shoes, oh the trenches, oh the draping, oh the ruched skinny trousers, oh the sparkles, oh the models, oh the front row...

It's strange how simple colours and simple hair and make-up can look so drop dead amazing.

Christopher Bailey is making London proud -please stay!

Lily Donaldson + Burberry also has to be the most perfect brand/model combination.

PS. I am aware that this is my second Burberry dedicated post in 24 hours. It's purely accidental, but totally deserved.

LFW - the rest

Today was exciting!

I didn't bother trying to get into any shows but I saw !!Anna Wintour!!, Lara Stone, Freja Beha Erichsen and Erin O'Connor - for the millionth time over the past few weeks - within metres of where I was standing (people watching is the best at fashion week) along with the whole UK Vogue and Glamour team and many other infamous fashion journalists, all arriving at Somerset House for the Jaeger show.
My papparazi skills are pretty shocking but I managed to get a few snaps.

Lara <3

This is Freja, my camera didn't have time to adjust to the light, or lack thereof haha

Jason Gardiner?

Naomi - Fierce!

Oh yeah, I pearled out my Blackberry Pearl :)

All images quite obviously taken by me - awful haha

Just A Quickie - LFW

So I didn't go to the Ioannis show in the end. Turns out it was miles away from the other events (I would have had to take a tube and 2 overground trains to get there) and didnt realise this until an hour before we planned to leave.

I'm working on getting some straight ups together for my uni project and will post them all on here once the fashion week plus working at Aldo drama is complete.

For now, I'll post a few of my favourite pictures from today. I went to two shows at Vauxhall Fashion Scout and did an awful lot of people watching in the blazing hot sun. I forgot my sunglasses as well, damn it.

Itsu sushi's 'strawberry sun' frozen yoghurt is my favourite non-guilty pleasure :)

The Matches pop-up store at Somerset House

Bryce d'Anice Aime - I loved this show! Especially all the spiky structuring...

In mad love with this particular outfit

Alice Palmer - we weren't in a very good position for taking photographs for this show...

Structure + buns on the top of everyone's heads are still going strong.

I need to try and keep up with the rest of the shows on Style.com. Life feels so hectic right now, but I'm enjoying it!

Hope everyone's enjoying fashion month :)

More posts ASAP

All images are taken by me

London Fashion Week

Starts tomorrow!

EXCITEMENT!

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I'll be attending the Ioannisdimitrousis show tomorrow evening, with an actual invite this time as oppposed to just hanging around hoping to get in, ha (though I will probably spend the next few days afterwards doing that). I love going to the shows. They're so short but so exciting, even if the collection is nothing special.

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It was my first day back at university today and we've been given three mini LFW based projects to be completed by wednesday next week. One of them requires me to snap the trendiest members of the fashion crowds highlighting the key trend they are sporting. Our lecturer will apparently be displaying the best (and WORST) to the rest of the class, so I'll be pestering lots of people for photos to ensure I get something worthy. I'll probably post a few on here too, as well as some snaps from the Ioannis show.

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Apologies for being so god awful at posting! I've been working a lot at Aldo and whenever I'm not working I celebrate by turning super lazy - not good. I'm working on another post for tonight though. It is the calm before the storm.

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I won't be covering fashion month in so much detail this time around as my photoshop needs sorting out again and with all the projects coming up I will hardly have time. Maybe I'll select some snippets of my favourite shows when it's all over. My coverage has nothing on Style.com, let's be honest.

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Just to close this post I HAVE to post some images on the wonderful Vivienne Westwood posing outside her first Red Label show this time last year. Who needs to age gracefully anyway? Not our Viv!

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First image from Eley Kishimoto S/S 09, all photos taken by me.

Designer of The Month - Ioannisdimitrousis

This was a university project - We had to make a 500 word short designer profile on a new designer, using press clippings and other resources other than a face-to-face interview to build up our peice. Mine was in the style of Elle magazine.

Here goes :)

This Greek-born London-based designer is making big waves in the innovative London fashion scene. Elle charts the rise of Ioannis Dimitrousis.

The atmosphere was a lot calmer than expected backstage at the Ioannisdimitrousis London Fashion Week show. All eyes were drawn to the two garments made entirely of fine crochet knit and needles, and fear for one model’s eyesight was high as several dressers squeezed the young girl into her hazardous dress. The show went on - fashionably late - and once again, Ioannis received great reviews for another unique collection.
Ioannis, known to his friends as ‘Yannis’, graduated from the London College of Fashion in 2005, and after previously working alongside Roland Mouret and Jonathan Saunders, he made his personal professional debut at On/Off during London Fashion Week in February 2006. He now shows at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout event in London each season, where I got my first glimpse behind the scenes of his show. It took me a while at first to realize which of the many people in the room was the designer; he is a fairly short, ‘regular’ looking young man, and was dressed down in Reebok Classics and a stonewash denim jacket – not what I expected of the person behind these daring and extravagant collections, and not your typical ‘wacky looking’ designer.
He started designing at a young age, “but I only realized (I wanted to become a fashion designer) when I was twenty, after I finished my army services”. He works with his skilful mother, who is an expert with the crochet knits his collections are well known for, as well as the little details such as intricate beading. Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, he now calls London home, but still regularly visits and takes inspiration from his native country, “The fact that I’m coming from a different background makes my collections different, giving them something unique,” says Ioannis, “I lived in a different culture and I incorporate that into my work”. His bold use of colour is certainly eye-catching, and helps transform the typically gothic crochet knits into something more playful and dramatic, “My feelings for certain issues are very strong, therefore that drama goes into my collections.”
His most recent collection, named ‘Untitled’ is his darkest yet, consisting of blacks, greys and reds, and chains and needles dangling off many of the garments. The clothes accentuated the female body, with tight knitwear and fish-tail skirts, with revealing garments. His designs are often compared to Rodarte as far as knitwear is concerned, and if their success is anything to go by, that is a huge compliment.
Ioannisdimitrousis is becoming more and more recognized in the fashion press, so this is definitely a name to get your hands on, “Most of the pieces of my collections are collectable, and it’s worth owning one piece of Ioannisdimitrousis as I don’t make big productions”.

Roksanda Ilincic - London Fashion Week

Waheyyy - I got myself into another show :)

I do love a bit of 'important people' spotting, and fashion week is always was the perfect place, although most editors only really have one little picture in their magazines for me to go from! Spot Jane Bruton of Grazia sat opposite in the pink scarf, and Hilary Alexander with the shiny brunette bob appearing in most of my pictures haha

I was sat next to Susie Bubble, but didn't really dare say anything to anyone, so I just took lots of pictures :)

I willl be on the front row one day my sweets!

Here are the pretty bad pictures I took - (note to self: invest in new camera that doesnt pause for 5 years before letting you take another snap!)

Some very beautiful dresses :) I really love the fur coat with the bow tied around the waist! The puffy sleeve thing on some of the garments reminds me a bit too much of last season Dolce & Gabbana though...