Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, on September 21,2015.
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Over the years, Bailey has relentlessly built upon this vision of the Burberry girl: she is the immaculate English Rose, elegant, effervescent and just happens to have perfectly blow-dried locks all hours of the day. This visual image the designer had crafted can be seen to clearly filter through the ranks in the company, manifesting itself even at the most junior level of the very polished press team. Groomed to the highest standards, their needle point stilettos propped them up to be on guard. It brought to mind old memories of Angela Ahrendts‘ steely yet astute gaze as she sat close to the entrance of the catwalk in past seasons.
With such strong internal culture and iconography intact several seasons after her departure, Christopher Bailey probably felt it was high time for the brand to explore new propositions. The Burberry girl witnessed today had a streak of street realism. Her hair was at times an undercut, sometimes cropped and in other looks mildly textured, perhaps out-of-bed. Lips were in the statement shade of black rose. See-through English broderie dresses were worn under shrunken peacoats with gold military detail — you could almost hear the designer quipping „lingerie is the new outerwear“ for spring. Bridal silk satin maxi dresses suggested the notion of vintage outfitting, taking an old ’80s gown, possibly a family heirloom, and paring it down with sandals. Bailey’s girl is now a lot more rebellious than before.
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Roksanda Ilincic Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, September 21,2015.
To celebrate her milestone 10th anniversary at London Fashion, Roksanda looked to the work of sculptor Pascal Pierme and the light touch of Ikebana flower arranging and re-imagined it through her own impeccable vision. The models were her flowers, the clothes her sculptural signature. Set under high-vaulted deco arches, modernist curves and cubes of blush pink, MDF installations distorted the models’ walk around the venue, and brought the audience closer to the pieces.
Sleeves were gathered like sweet wrappers, drop shoulders were full and softly ruffled, and pantsuits placed the ruffled waistband so high they became jumpsuits. Colours of ice blue, nude, acidic yellow and burnt orange are signatures of Roksanda, but this season she outlined and punctuated with black, and mixed block colour cutouts, panelling and applied architectural precision with their placement.
Antonio Berardi Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, September 21,2015.
Antonio Berardi played with the contrast between precise tailoring and romantic fluidity in this glamorous, yet easy collection.The standouts were languid silk dresses with billowing trains, as in one racer-back number in a pale sky blue. That design was worn with a matching silk trench coat that slipped off the model’s shoulders, adding to the collection’s undone air. And naturally for a designer whose collections occupy high-octane territory, there was plenty of embellishment, but this season Berardi worked his decoration in a comparatively low-key way. A series of silk dresses were stitched with a lavish paisley pattern of sequins, but they were matte rather than shiny.A masculine foil to the ultra-feminine creations came from tuxedo suits that were sharply cut, but worked into relaxed, oversized shapes. Among them was a gleaming white tuxedo with black lapels with rounded, cocooning shoulders.
KTZ designer Marjan Pejoski is back to London Fashion Week with the KTZ Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection . Last collection, fall/winter 2015-2016 was shown in New York Fashion Week.
Pejoski’s exploration of urban street culture continued into the darker back alleys of an unspecified dystopia.
In the new KTZ collection the label’s signature club kid vibe remained in place, but Pejoski cashed in the nomadic vibe of previous collections and conjured a gritty urban feeling in its place. OUT with the tribal motifs , IN with chain-link Patterns.