Vivienne Westwood Red Label Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Vivienne Westwood Red Label Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, September 20,2015.

Can you reasonably rage against the machine when you are a highly profitable cog in it? This is an obvious paradox inherent in Dame Vivienne Westwood’s policy of using her shows as a podium from which to preach about the iniquities of mass consumerism and fossil fuel dependence.

Held in a basement space grippingly advertised outside as an “Alien Sex Club,” the runway was overlooked by a balcony on which gathered a band of paper-crowned model/protestors holding banners hostile to politicians and shale gas extraction.

The most piquant contradiction in this show was how incompatible the collection seemed with the rhetoric around it. Because while the styling was absolutely maverick—all smeared robber-mask eyes and sleep-in-a-tree hair—there is no other way to describe the clothes only with the word :conservative!

Unique Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Unique Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, on September 20,2015.

There are a charming florad Dresses, the collections is wearable and pretty. Relaxed tailoring is juxtaposed with romantic softeness.

Jonathan Saunders Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Jonathan Saunders Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, on Septemeber

Preen Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Preen by Thornton Bregazzi Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, September 20,2015.

Sunday morning, time to start with Preen: Hard and soft, floral frills with sports edge, lame and laces, micro-floral prints ,multitude of metallic overlays, ruffles, sweeping maxis and cut-away bandage straps

Simone Rocha Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Simone Rocha Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, on September 19,2015.

Japan is the central theme to the collection she showed in London yesterday.

Rocha’s collection was full of exciting texture and contrast, as in the bondagelike woven ropes that crisscrossed her gossamer dresses with their puff sleeves and cloqué circle skirts; the thick and slightly menacing strips of fabric that tied at the throats of floral-print dresses, and the innocent looking ribbons that bound arms to the bodies of languid, Empire-style dresses, restricting models movements.

The hard and soft contrast came in the form of spongy neoprene dresses. They were short, boxy and tailored, with patch pockets and oversize sculpted bows planted on shoulders and hips. The linear geometry of bamboo forests, meanwhile, came through in sheer olive dresses with a crosshatch pattern, and resembled the blurred image on her show Invitation.