First off, a confession. There’s no easy way to tell you this dear Ballad Of… readers, but I can’t hide it any longer: the truth is, you’re not my only blog. You may have noticed I’ve been a bit distant the last couple of weeks, and the reason for that is, I’m just going to be honest with you, I’ve been away at London Fashion Week, writing for another website. Well, two in fact. There, I’ve said it. I’m sorry. But now I’m back and I’m going to make it up to you, I promise.

So to make up for lost time, I thought we could spend some quality time this week crystallising everything I saw at LFW into some pretty little trend boards for Autumn/Winter 2010, before trying to play catch up on Milan and Paris. First up, the textures and fabrics you WILL be wearing next winter… 

Photos: Style.com and londonfashionweek.co.uk