Barbie is 50 this year, and she is looking better than ever. To celebrate she is getting her own catwalk show at New York Fashion Week. And if an entire show wasn’t enough, she will also be sponsoring two of our very own designers at London Fashion Week. Yes Barbie is now the very proud sponsor of designers Danielle Scutt and Roksanda Ilincic. The designers will be...

The British Fashion Council has put its money where its mouth is by backing Christopher Kane, Marios Schwab and Erdem with its Fashion Forward sponsorship scheme for the second season in a row.

Every year the Antoni & Alison slot is always filled with something that little bit different. Last year, lucky show-goers were invited to watch Nicole Kidman present the new collection on screen. This season, the show was once again a form of light relief.

After a gloriously gothic, entirely theatrical show I crept backstage to meet the brains behind the self-named label. There I found a sprightly gothic pixie, Inbar Spector a tiny beautiful, almost doll like woman. Dressed in a black tulle skirt and top with floral stilettos, you knew straight away that she was the designer of those whimsical creations, yet at the same...

Wind back the clock precisely one year and Roksanda Ilincic was showing off her sassy spring summer 08 collection. It was savvy, it was feminine and it had guts. A year on, and the Central St Martins graduate has done the unthinkable, something I didn’t think her capable of. Put bluntly, her new collection is, well, rather butch. Gone are the art deco pleats and hyper...

The Trends: Stepford Wives – Ladylike glamour with a sexy edge, think form fitting dresses and pencil skirts. Playschool – A childish trend to embrace the sun, think primary colours, childlike prints, dinosaurs, trapeze tops and tent dresses. The Orient – Grace and elegance are seen in Obi belts, silk prints, florals, feathers and birds. Barely There – Sheer...

Some would argue but I think Avsh Alom Gur’s prints were the best I’d seen on London’s catwalks for Spring/Summer 09. Inspired (quite obsessively) by the chair, this was the theme running through Gur’s collection. It appeared in the accessories, the prints and his summer wedges. Firstly, the prints. The fun and bold efforts were seaside British in their...

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SADO presented their Spring/Summer 09 collection this week to much applause. The utterly wearable line had strong influences from tropical art deco Miami with a colourful palette of blues, pinks, salvia green and brick orange. Combine this with a geometric pattern inspired by the Egyptian pyramids, add a dash of 1950s and 1980s influence, and you can be sure that...

As winners of last seasons Fashion Fringe trophy Aminaka Wilmont have quickly established a name for themselves, most often associated with avant-garde shapes and innovative use of fabrics. There was certainly an air of anticipation amongst the audience as the onset of heavy guitar music boldly indicated the beginning of their second showing London Fashion week; ‘Perfect...