Versus Versace Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Versus Versace Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection # Versuscalling desisgned by Anthony Vaccarello was shown in London Fashion Week, September 19,2015

With Anthony Vaccarello as creative director, Donatella Versace has turned Versus into a show-now, buy-now and wear-tomorrow collection,

Vacarello is a fluent new-generation-channeler of the pulse of Versace. He gets the house codes such the lion-head medallions, the legginess, the body-conscious cutout-and-drape shapes, the tailoring.

Erin Wasson, Jamie Bochert, Lily Donaldson, and Malaika Firth led the roll call of models in sharp black cuts, bomber jackets, studded leather, and “Versus” silver stamped disc belts and shoes. Tuxedo jackets were worn with attitude as dresses, the boys were as pretty as the girls, and slithers of satins, studded medusa heads, and curved button detail punched the spirit of Versus Versace into a new season. Black on black, leopard print silk scarves that wafted into skirts, asymmetric hemlines, catsuits, and long tunics were worn over trousers, printed denims, and inky black floral prints.

Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown London Fashion Week, September 19,2015.

In a statement, the designer reminisced about his first experiences of Soho, just after he moved to London, describing it as some sort of wayward utopia. „It was like falling down a rabbit hole. There were such feelings of euphoria, of danger, and of possibility. I guess that’s what this collection is about. A place where you feel like anything can happen.“
This collection is about dreams, hopes and the determination to do it your way. Pugh might have been to Paris in search of the trappings of success but to yesterday evening the street wasn’t paved with gold, it was paved with pennies. Big dreams don’t need a lot. They just need a big heart, a big smile and an even bigger imagination. Pugh has all three. His talent shone through yesterday evening, as avant-garde mastermind and as clairvoyant. His theatrical design background saw him pump up the energy, re-injecting life back into the belief systems around what makes London proud to be London. This city has a direct access to the authentic world of punk and counter culture like no other.

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.

Sibling Spring/Summer 2016 collection – London Fashion Week

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Sibling Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, September 19,2015

The show was dedicated to Joe Bates, fellow founder of the label along with Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery. He sadly passed away in August.

The label took its inspiration from youthful starlets, so it said, for a concoction of leopard print, the Riviera, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin. Classic stuff reworked the Sibling way, which meant sequins, bikinis and all the aforementioned. You need to be a brave person or certainly have spirit to wear some of these pieces, but that’s the point when it comes to this brand.

PPQ Spring/Summer 2016 – London Fashion Week

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PPQ Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection was shown in London Fashion Week, September 17,2015