Archive for: aw09

London Fashion Week: Ana Sekularac AW09

Being late may be fashionable. But there’s nothing chic about opening your fashion installation 45 minutes late or for that matter still having a lady sweeping the floor, a man dousing models in hair spray and several men up ladders positioning...

 

London Fashion Week: Avsh Alom Gur AW09

Avsh Alom Gur is a man with a sense of humour. Strutting to a soundtrack of songs about money, his models wore dresses, catsuits and jackets with the words “Credit Crunch” in big sequin letters splashed across them. When the first...

 

London Fashion Week: William Tempest AW09

First of all, let’s just take a moment to appreciate what a great name William Tempest is. I mean, if ever there was a name to create a mystique around a person, surely Tempest would be it. And mystique there was. The sequin encrusted...

 

London Fashion Week: Bora Aksu AW09

Naughty but nice is the best way to describe Bora Aksu’s show. With a Marilyn Manson soundtrack and Jodie Harsh perched in the front row, it seemed Aksu was determined to misbehave. The audience at the On|Off show at the Science Museum...

 

London Fashion Week: Ashley Isham AW09

There was much to love about Ashley Isham’s collection. Models with quiff’s that Prince would be proud of strutted their way down the catwalk in a selection of gowns influenced by 40s and 80s glamour. Goddess gowns , Isham’s...

 

London Fashion Week: Maria Grachvogel AW09

With a jazz inspired soundtrack and each model sporting a grey silk skull cap, there was more than a whiff of the 1940s at the Maria Grachvogel show. The collection was staggeringly elegant. Halter dresses, flared catsuits and trousers, pussy...

 

London Fashion Week: Sado AW09

With some of the prettiest colour combinations I’ve seen, Carlotta Gherzi’s AW09 Sado collection featured simple silk pieces in grey, raspberry, orange and peach.  Prim puff sleeve blouses, boxy cropped jackets, and mini capes...