Towering heels and huge hair made Danielle Scutt’s models even more ridiculously tall than your average.. Add to that dresses that emphasised a womanly figure and it all seemed a little bit pantomime to me – but in a good way. Kooky-beautiful is kind of what Scutt does, and she’s done it again here: adorning clingy feminine silhouettes with checks, spots and squiggles.

PPQ’s use of all black models didn’t seem so much a statement about race in the fashion world, as simply the right choice for a collection that could be summed up with two words: ethnic eighties.

At the other end of the spectrum, Osman Yousefzada’s choice of ‘any colour as long as it’s white’ was rather dull, but it did provide the ideal solution if you had to go to a high-end toga party. So, every cloud…