Report by Isaac Lock
This season, the LFW celebrity ante was upped significantly. As well as the usual cast of Alexa and Peaches and Pixie Geldof, we’ve had the Olsens, Donatella Versace, Gwyneth Paltrow, TV’s Lorraine Kelly (who had a mumsie moment in the front row of House of Holland) and Nicola out of Girls Aloud. [...]

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Report by Disneyrollergirl
“The first fashion-show season with Twitter in full force is like Gossip Girl on crack!” So reads designer Henry Holland’s (henryholland) Twitter, summing up the latest obsession to take LFW in less than 140 characters. If we’re not tweeting about spotting Donatella Versace/Joan Collins/Martine McCutcheon, we’re tweeting mini trend reports as they happen: [...]

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Report by Julia Robson
Photography by Marcus Dawes
Forget fashion’s current leopard-print fad, cats of the domestic variety are the mascots of next season. Backstage at her recent presentation, Suzanne Clements, of design duo Clements Ribeiro, revealed the two reasons why their Spring/Summer 2010 collection has such a feline theme: “Toulouse and Marie, our new British Blue pet [...]

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Report by Rebecca Lowthorpe, Fashion Features Director, Elle
It all started with a smile. On the catwalk! True, an almost unheard of occurrence in the straight-faced business of modelling. The girl in question was prancing down Dame Vivienne Westwood’s catwalk and –boom! – out of nowhere, a beautiful, broad, toothy smile.
And so it was that by the [...]

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Going Up
 
AFRICA ‘BACONGO’ CHIC
At Paul Smith
BURBERRY, JONATHAN SAUNDERS
AND MATTHEW WILLIAMSON
Stellar returns to the London catwalk
SHOP FOR VICTORY!
With such great Brit brands on the runway, now there’s no reason not to buy British
PALOMA FAITH
Her acoustic set at the Pandora LFW Daily Disco ROCKED!
 
Going Down
 
POINTY SHOULDERS
Enough!
BLACK
We all love pastels now
BRA TOPS
Apparently, they’re coming back, but not round [...]

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Report by David Hayes
A great new venue, a landmark anniversary and the attention of the world’s press and buyers focused squarely back on London Fashion Week: there are a lot of reasons to feel good about the past few days. But more than that, more than the fact that Spring/Summer is by default lighter, brighter [...]

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Report by Julia Robson
Photography by Marcus Dawes
It’s amazing what you can find off-catwalk, lurking in the labyrinths of Somerset House during London Fashion Week. A bra by Yes Master, fashioned out of black feathers and inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe poem The Raven, for instance. Or the jewellery collection by Mawi [above], inspired by [...]

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Report by David Hayes
Ten years is a long time, but in fashion? It’s an eternity. So you couldn’t blame designer Antonio Berardi for feeling a little nervous about showing back in London after a decade away on the catwalks of Milan and Paris. “I’ve been terrified,” joked Berardi backstage. “But everyone here has been so [...]

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THE FASHION MOMENT Kinder Aggugini’s fairy-tale show of puffball dreams in perfect cuts left press and guests happy ever after. Photography by Anna Bauer
Report by David Hayes
“Fairy tale,” said an emotional Kinder Aggugini backstage after his show. And it was, in more ways than one.
Close friend, agent Camilla Lowther also celebrating 25 years in fashion this [...]

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Interview by Cat Callender 

Photography Banquet 2004 © Nick Knight
 
Everything you should know about fashion’s most visionary photographer – in his own fine words…
 
* Contrary to popular belief, I do get out of bed for less than £100,000. I’d spend quite a lot of time in bed otherwise!
 
* I don’t like to wear green because it [...]

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