LFW - Tuesday
We’ve had an absolutely fab London Fashion week full of shows and parties! Here are our reviews and pics of our most favourite shows…
A-Line dresses, pop art motifs and fancy up-dos at Joanne Hynes had me feeling like I’d time warped back to the swinging 60s today. Girls came out onto the catwalk to flashing spotlights and they wouldn’t have looked out of place in ’66 hit film Blow Up - I was almost waiting for Twiggy to appear. Alas she didn’t but the vibrant leather panelling in aqua, burgundy, pillar-box red and metallic gold kept me happy, as well as the various luminous tights all the models wore beneath pencil skirts. Heavily bejewelled bib necklaces perfectly suited the simple cuts, as well as playfully bright patent clutch bags, even eye liner matched in bright orange and turqoise.
Meadham Kirchoff
Meadham Kirchoff transported me to a mystical candy-coloured land with this collection, where the girls were fabulously dressed, tiny prima ballerinas pranced around and Spice Girls played continuously.
Blonde bobbed can-can girls appeared first - parading around the stage, whipping the crowd into a buzzing excitement, and puffing pastel powder around the spacious Old Eurostar venue at Waterloo. As their dancing continued, girl after girl appeared from behind a gold curtain, flirtily walking around the catwalk which was decorated heavily with rainbows of party balloons.
Bejewelled bra cups, teddy bear motifs, pop socks and hearts galore, the models looked like they’d let their trendy little sisters dress them up. Jumbles of styles and colours, all with heavy make-up and cutesy blonde wigs, they could have been life sized dolls. Baby blue, lemon, mint, cream, pastel pink, fur trims, frills, scalloped edges and glittery eyeshadow - Marie Antoinette met the Power Puff girls at this show, and I certainly loved every single minute (And Anna Wintour did too by the look of our picture!)
ANNA WINTOUR WAS SMILING AT US!!!
Moving away from her last very gothic collections, this season Inbar Spector was much more delicite and girly - in a sort of Black Swan meets 80s disco kind of way.
Models floated down the catwalk at Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Freemason’s Hall to orchestral music in metallic, tulle creations. And creations they certainly were - powder pink, gold and white concertina puffball skirts were like clouds, or marshmallows, engulfing the waif like girls. Some tulle tutu skirts peeked out from oversized gold jackets that wouldn’t have looked out of place on a Japanese emperor, while others were held up with barely-there sheer straps, proving that Spector hasn’t turned a complete 360 from her previous bondage strapped creations.
Hula inspired skirts with black leather tassels, sequin panelling and aztec prints were the order of the day at David Koma. With slicked back hair, models wore knee length sleeveless dresses in either black or white, with hints of lemon, turquoise and warm blushing pink. With deep v necks at the front, and sometimes the back, sheer panels and bare legs, it was evening wear all the way, in a collection totally in-keeping with Koma’s clean, chic aesthetic.
At the end of a very long but extremely amazing day we were totally happy… as you can see (especially thanks to the free Topshop iced teas, boy those things were moorish!)
