London Fashion Week
London Fashion Week Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Mary Katrantzou
What to do when your rise to prominence in the fickle world of fashion is inseparable from bold colour and precision prints?
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London Fashion Week: Jonathan Saunders
There was a retro drama to Saunders’ offering, all glamorous 1950s silhouettes celebrating the buxom female form, but given a kinky twist with belted waists and sex shop bustiers.
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London Fashion Week: House of Holland Video
Henry’s House of Holland is always fun and tongue-in-cheek bad taste, and this season was no different.
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London Fashion Week: Michael van der Ham
Things took a dark turn at Michael van der Ham, as his beautiful, specially developed fabrics came torn and ripped as embroidered cutouts, layered on top of one another to reveal more depth beneath.
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London Fashion Week: Tom Ford
If money really is funny in the rich man’s world, then Tom Ford has a great sense of humour.
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London Fashion Week: Peter Pilotto
Through their signature 3D printing techniques, the design duo of Pilotto and Christopher De Vos have secured a formula which always delights but has become a little, well, familiar.
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London Fashion Week: JW Anderson
After creating probably the most Marmite show of London Collections: Men, JW Anderson’s autumn 13 womenswear was equally challenging.
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London Fashion Week: Christopher Kane
The appeal of a Kane collection lies in part with its skill in juxtaposing attitude and artfulness, the pretty and the peculiar.
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London Fashion Week: Roksanda Ilincic
Having seen so much pretty pinkness this season, it felt like Ilincic had already moved ahead by giving the girly colour a moodier edge.
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London Fashion Week: Meadham Kirchhoff
Take almost everything you’ve come to expect from Edward Meadham and Ben Kirchhoff and forget it, almost.
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London Fashion Week: Burberry Prorsum
Just as we wondered how much more could be done with the trench coat, Christopher Bailey proved us wrong, sending out models clad in translucent latex trenches, knickers clearly visible underneath.
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London Fashion Week: Topshop Unique
Topshop linked up with Google+ for its latest show but you didn’t need to use the search engine to discover why this was the strongest Unique collection in a while.
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London Fashion Week: Richard Nicoll
It’s when a designer is really in tune with their signature while knowing how to step out of their comfort zone that a lot of the best work is done, and no one is more hard-wired into this than Nicoll.
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London Fashion Week: Best of the rest
Underneath Sister by Sibling’s showstopper monster scarves and oversized berets came some great knitwear- a chic lady in twin sets, Fair Isles and sequined florals with a punky twist.
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How relevant is London Fashion Week to you?
Industry insider’s share their thoughts.
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Topshop and Google show fashion its future
Fashion shows have long remained a closed industry event despite digital innovation and adoption.
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Five-point plan for London Fashion Week gets thumbs up
British Fashion Council seeks industry support for strategy after LFW’s more commercial stance finds favour with buyers.
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Have LFW designers sold out to sell out?
Well look who’s all grown up!
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IMAGE GALLERY: London Fashion Week: Street Style at Somerset House
With London renowned for its creativity when it comes to fashion, it’s hardly surprising that London Fashion Week brings out the best street style on offer.
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London Fashion Week: Day five highlights
Junior fashion editor Graeme Moran picks his best bits from the final day of LFW.
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London Fashion Week: Ryan Lo
Ryan Lo Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Pringle of Scotland
Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Simone Rocha
Simone Rocha Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Antonio Beradi
Antonio Beradi Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Claire Barrow
Claire Barrow Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Erdem
Erdem Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Louise Gray
Louise Gray Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Day Four Highlights
The penultimate day of LFW saw some of the city’s big guns show alongside its rising stars, here are junior fashion editor Graeme Moran’s best bits.
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London Fashion Week: Temperley London
Temperley London Autumn 13
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London Fashion Week: Moschino Cheap & Chic
Moschino Cheap & Chic Autumn 13
London Fashion Week Spring 13
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London Fashion Week
It may have lacked a standout moment, but this year’s LFW hit all the right creative and commercial notes.
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London Fashion Week: Preen by Thornton Bregazzi
After five years in New York, Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi returned to London with reptilian graphics and skins including python, crocodile and stingray.
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London Fashion Week: Best of the rest
Pleasing pleats, a touch of honeycomb, a clash of collages and colour blocking all impressed.
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London Fashion Week Find: Martina Spetlova Video
While London’s big names often grab all the attention during fashion week, each season I manage to come across a hidden gem somewhere in the depths of Somerset House or at one of the off schedule locations.
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Pragmatism not pizzazz at London Fashion Week
There was an odd atmosphere around Somerset House, the Topshop venue and the assortment of other show spaces during London Fashion Week.
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Buyers hail ‘sophisticated’ London Fashion Week
Buyers have praised this season’s “commercial” London Fashion Week with designers producing fresh collections that will encourage shoppers to invest in new pieces.
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London Fashion Week: Christopher Kane Video
Part of Kane’s appeal is his ability to blend the incongruous and unrelated into something wrong, but right.
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London Fashion Week: Simone Rocha Video
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London Fashion Week: Roksanda Ilincic Video
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London Fashion Week: Michael van der Ham
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London Fashion Week: Meadham Kirchhoff
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London Fashion Week fashion team highlights: Day Five
The final day of London Fashion Week kicked off to a sunny start, Drapers’ Junior Fashion Editor Graeme Moran picks his highlights.
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London Fashion Week Preview: Eudon Choi
Eudon Choi takes us to outer space for spring 13, but via the 1960s inspired by Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001, A Space Odyssey and Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow Up.
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London Fashion Week: Peter Pilotto Video
The dynamic duo were on their engineered print game again with their spring 13 collection proving to be a feast for the eyes.
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London Fashion Week: Louise Gray Video
Spring 13
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London Fashion Week: Giles
Considering the burning house of autumn 12 and the smashed glass motif of spring 13, Giles Deacon seems to be in a destructive mood.
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London Fashion Week: Erdem Video
Spring 13
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London Fashion Week: Burberry Prorsum Video
There was no torrential finale to this spring 13 show, nor anything more elaborate than an army of betrenched soldiers as Christopher Bailey made his assault against disappointing sales figures posted only days before.
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London Fashion Week: J W Anderson Video
Spring 13
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London Fashion Week: Richard Nicoll Video
Chic, urban athletes sped down the catwalk, picking up the baton from where the pre-summer and debut menswear collections left off.
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London Fashion Week: Matthew Williamson Video
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What's in store for luxury fashion?
Much in the same way that we see John Lewis as the fashion retail bellwether, Burberry arguably plays the same role in the luxury sector. So when I took my seat at the brand’s London Fashion Week show yesterday – one of the hottest tickets of the week – I couldn’t help thinking about its profit warning, less than a week earlier.
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London Fashion Week fashion team highlights: Day Four
The fourth day of London Fashion week bought some of the biggest names of the week to the city’s catwalks - Junior Fashion Editor Graeme Moran highlights his best bits.
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Drapers Debate: Was London Fashion Week right to play safe?
This year’s London Fashion Week has seen designers evolve concepts rather than recreate them. Drapers asks whether they were right to play it safe?
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London Fashion Week: Issa London
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London Fashion Week: Daks
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London Fashion Week: Moschino Cheap & Chic
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London Fashion Week: Fashion East
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London Fashion Week: House of Holland
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London Fashion Week: Holly Fulton
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London Fashion Week: Jonathan Saunders Video
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London Fashion Week: Vivienne Westwood Red Label Video
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London Fashion Week: Paul Smith
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London Fashion Week: Marios Schwab Video
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London Fashion Week: Mary Katrantzou Video
Whoever said spring 13 might see the death of the digital printing trend did not send the memo to Katrantzou.
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London Fashion Week: Street Style
The capital’s most fashionable have emerged for London Fashion Week this season. Drapers scoured Somerset House for LFW’s best dressed…
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London Fashion Week fashion team highlights: Day Three
We hit the half-way point of fashion week with another jam-packed day of shows – here are some of Drapers’ Junior Fashion Editor Graeme Moran’s highlights.
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London Fashion Week fashion team highlights: Day Two
Day two of London Fashion Week was a mix of the old timers and new names - Junior Fashion Editor Graeme Moran picks his best bits.
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London Fashion Week: Day one round up
Antoni and Alison celebrated 25 years in the business with a collection of “new work” - a study of dresses splashed with prints of paint brush strokes and trompe l’oeil fabrics, jazzy buckles and gems.
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London Fashion Week fashion team highlights: Day One
Fashion Director Ian Wright and Junior Fashion Editor Graeme Moran pick their best bits from the front row of London Fashion Week - Day one.
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London Fashion Week: Bora Aksu
Modern Queen was the theme for Bora Aksu’s spring 13 collection as models took to the catwalk in crowns.
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London Fashion Week: Corrie Nielsen
Corrie Nielsen’s spring 13 collection pumped up the volume with billowing sleeves, oversized outerwear and rolls of fabric in shimmering pale duck egg, silvery creams and light golds.
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London Fashion Week gets off to a "buzzing" start
London Fashion Week kicked off with a buzz today, as Antoni & Alison launched proceedings this morning.
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London Fashion Week Preview: Craig Lawrence
Craig Lawrence’s collection promises to be full of crafted surprises.
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London Fashion Week Preview: Corrie Nielsen
For her fourth season, Corrie Nielsen was influenced by a trip to Kew Gardens.
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London Fashion Week Preview: Issa London
The prevalence of print is set to continue at Issa, which has utilised digital printing for the first time.
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London Fashion Week Preview: Pringle of Scotland
The design team at Pringle of Scotland has been looking back to create a contemporary take on the glamorous Pringle Sweater Girls of the 1950s.
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London Fashion Week Preview: Richard Nicoll
Following the unveiling of his first menswear collection at London Collections: Men in June (which was one of Drapers’ personal highlights), Richard Nicoll returns to the London catwalk with a womenswear collection inspired by athleticism, modernism, youth and colour.
Brandwatch
Brandwatch: Lavish Alice
Its own twist on directional trends gives this brand an up-to-the-minute look, says Graeme Moran.
This Fashion Life
Zoë Jordan
The London Fashion Week designer tells Emily Norval about the importance of pre-collections and what’s in the pipeline for spring 14.
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Dior cruise 2014: Wow with a capital W
Raf Simons’ show in Monaco was a gamble that’ll surely pay off.
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Deputy Diary: M&S - the saga continues Video
This time last week, we were waiting for Marks & Spencer to unveil its autumn 13 womenswear collection (see Drapers’ thoughts on this Reuters video) to see if it could rescue falling clothing sales; today we await its less favourable full-year results due out tomorrow.
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Bangladesh: 'Ethics' is not a dirty word
It is impossible for the images coming out of Bangladesh in the past few weeks not to leave their impact and, in discussing the business response to the tragedy, we must not lose sight of the fact that people have lost their lives because sufficient precautions were not taken.
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With £600 gilets, M&S A13 falls wide of the mark
The much-anticipated preview of Marks & Spencer’s autumn 13 collection drew everyone’s focus to the quality of the range – but at what expense to the actual customer?




