By Katie Wright

After the endless catwalks that are so monochrome they don’t even need to be photographed in colour, Peter Som’s Autumn/Winter 2010 collection was a blast of fresh air today. And it was a blast from the seventies, signified by busy psychedelic prints, silky floral dresses and lots of lemon and lime.

Volume also came in the form of fluffy furry gillets and coats, but was kept in check with tight belted waists. So New Yorkers will be glad to know that if there’s a repeat of ‘snowmageddon’ next year (and Londoners for that matter; the city ground to a halt with the arrival of a couple of inches of the white stuff in January) then Som has plenty of sartorial solutions - even snoods managed to look chic on his runway, as did cloche hats by Albertus Swanepoel.