Report by Isaac Lock

Photograph by Anna Bauer 

So it’s probably time to talk about some models. Thank God the past few days have thrown up some faces who were interesting for reasons other than their weight! As usual, a lot of the really exciting girls have skipped London to go straight to Milan, but casting director Angus Munro reckons the situation is getting better season on season. 

“It’s sometimes a bit dribs and drabs, but London is building a head of steam with the return of Burberry and Matthew Williamson. And with an ever increasing core of talent emerging with Louise Goldin, Erdem and Peter Pilotto, I have noticed a distinct increase in interest of girls to come. This season has seen the arrival of hot new girls in the form of Patricia, Frida, Auguste and Mirte,” he claims. Munro cast some breakthroughnew faces for Matthew Williamson, including Supreme’s Karolin Volter, alongside some major bigger girls, including Freja Beha Erichsen and Abbey Lee Kershaw. 

Meanwhile, at Topshop Unique, Russell Marsh put together a really directional casting made up of some of the most talked-about new girls 
of the moment, including Dree Hemingway (yeah, yeah, the great-granddaughter of) and IMG’s incredible Frida (who had everyone doing backflips at Calvin Klein in New York), as well as some of the stars of last season, like Ford’s Alla, who opened YSL and McQueen.

Then today Christopher Kane, of course, had killer casting – thanks once again to Marsh.  The show was opened by Next’s Valerija Erokhina and closed by beautiful, androgynous Ursula. Lara Stone popped up, too.  Coco Rocha and Chanel Iman are also in town – in Nicole Farhi, of all and Sessilee Lopez and Alana Zimmer have both been working their trotters off!

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