Anya Hindmarch: Ready-to-wear AW16
For her latest collection Anya Hindmarch has decided to explore pixilation and colour, or too quote from the press release, "the building blocks of digital design", resulting in a show that poses the question, do computers dream when they sleep?
Margaret Howell: Ready-to-wear AW16
You always know what you'll get with Margaret Howell. If it's the perfect basic you're after she'll always deliver. Not to make her sound boring or anything, it just makes a nice change to see clothes that function as clothes
Preen by Thornton Bregazzi: Ready-to-wear AW16
Preen by Thornton Bregazzi yesterday morning was all about volume. Extreme volume. A sort of grunge princess volume. You could literally lose a person in these proportions. Heavy wools are covered in painterly roses and spliced with shiny, light reflecting organzas
House of Holland: Ready-to-wear AW16
This season Henry draws from "two of the greatest party decades of the 20th century-1920's vs 1970's. The look of Lori Maddox with the inherent rebellion and sexual freedom heralded by 20s flapper girls. Good time glam rock groupies". Which
Simone Rocha: Ready-to-wear AW16
There's something to be said for having a signature look, especially a strong recognisable one, one that you manage to reinterpret from season to season, yet remains unmistakably you. And that is something that Simone Rocha has. All her hallmarks
Emilia Wickstead: Ready-to-wear AW16
There's a very strong sense of Englishness that always permeates Emilia Wickstead and this collection was no different. High necked empire gowns came in stripes of shades of green, with cut outs in the back, perfect for sweeping through the
Sibling: Ready-to-wear AW16
The name of the Sibling show this season? Give the World a Little Disco. And who in their right mind would ever refuse a little disco? Especially when it comes in the form of fine, sparkly knitwear inspired by the
Fashion East: Ready-to-wear AW16
First up, Richard Malone. this was a stripy affair. A seventies, sportif, stripy affair if you will. The collection was inspired by Richard’s Holy Communion, or more specifically his godmother’s appearance at his Holy Communion. Shaved head, combat boots and a
Gareth Pugh: Ready-to-wear AW16
You know those wide shouldered, tightly coiffed film noir femme fatales? Well this was that. An almost superior race of deadly female androids, dressed in sharply tailored double breasted suits and draped, corsetted dresses in rich wools, including what we
J.W. Anderson: Ready-to-wear AW16
There's never really a press release at J.W. Anderson, usually all he gives you as a starting point is a quote. This time the quote came courtesy of David Hicks, "the excitement of today is the freedom of the individual to
Manuel Facchini: Ready-to-wear AW16
This wasn’t a show. This was a presentation. On live models. Who somehow managed to stand very still for thew whole time we were there which we thought was rather impressive, but then we’re easily impressed. Anyway, apparently, the Manuel
Chanel: SS16 Eyewear Campaign
// Who doesn't need a gorge pair of sunglasses in their life? We often extol their magical ability to both shield us from the world/shield the world from us. Sometimes this face just isn't ready to be viewed. And really, who
Calvin Klein: Ready-to-wear AW16
How do you make minimalism not-quite-so-minimal? It’s a challenge Francisco Costa has been setting himself for a decade at Calvin Klein Collection, where the impulse is always to pare back but where innovative technologies and crafts come to the fore
Marc Jacobs: Ready-to-wear AW16
Devil doll meets Camden Goth meets early eighties Vivienne Westwood meets Queen Victoria meets Marc Jacobs last season. In a dark alley. In a Tim Burton film. How about that as an entirely-inadequate collection summary for the autumn/winter 2016 Marc
Ralph Lauren: Ready-to-wear AW16
Ralph Lauren brought in Stefan Larsson as CEO in November last year. The I’m? Give the label’s namesake time to focus on the design stuff, without worrying about the considerable day-to-day running of his global multi-billion behemoth. hence the fact