E is for Eun Jeong

FORGOTTEN STORY
After several e-mails to many companies, requesting for tickets, i finally heard back from the lovely press contact at Eun Jeong, and soon after that arrived the tickets.
The show had a great atmosphere, especially with live music from 'eliza doolitle' and her band.
I managed to blag my way onto the front row and sat opposite a sugarbabe. (Well ex-sugarbabe now!)
Flowing dresses, elongated zippers, and tatooed print tights, were just a snippet of what was on display.
This forgotten story was defffinately UNFORGETABBLE.

F is for fashion week

So we had a new brief to try and get into as many shows, presentations and exhibitions as we could. It wasn't gonna be easy, as some of those shows had more security then terminal 5, but lets just say, due to our powers of persuassion, we managed it....

Recession beige...a state of mind or a state of behind?

Could it be the start of the end? or is it just to lift the spirits, but the whites, creams and light colours showcased for SS/10 are set to tempt us back to the shops.

Not only have the designers gone all out this year, re-creating old classics, bringing in new vibes and producing the most fashiony fashion for a long time, but they have also bought in new colour hues and colour palettes. Gone are the standard classics; red, blue, black, green and in are the lights and pastels.

It might be to lift the misery currently hanging over the financial side of the city, but lets face it, the only way designers can tempt women to use their plastic is to totally re-define the current look, from styles to colour. I mean we can hardly be seen in last years threads, if they are no longer anything like this years.

For ages now, there has been a recurring few looks, with the 'anything goes' attitude, perhaps thats why we haven't been spending, because we already had a version of what was out there already.

I feel there is to be a change in the design process...we've all seen the demise of Lacroix, and it bought a tear to the eye.

The problem is those in the forefront of the design world seem to forget the basics...there is a cloudy happy view that fashion is a dream...but its not a dream, its a business!

It has to make money....

W is for white...but not for winter....

White and all those which fall into the white family have been all over fashion week for SS10...

with Osman showing an all white collection, and Eun Jeong's predominantly white with silvers show, white was predominantly present at LFW last week....yet it wasn't just those two, with John Rocha and Jenny Packman showing a great deal of it too...it might be true to say; white is the new black!

Maybe it's the recession...and they can't afford to dye the fabrics anymore? - only kidding, though it might be a result of lifting spirits from the recession and the first signs that the dark days are over?

P is for Plus size....

Plus size models on the catwalks at London Fashion Week...yes i gasped as well, but it was true thanks to Mark Fast.

You would think this would be a good thing, a positive ad for the larger girl and a note to all aspiring skinnies, that it is ok not to be like the supermodels fashion exposes us to on a daily basis.

For me, however and i'm sure many of you, it just confirmed for me that girls of a certain size really shouldn't be wearing knitted body-con, a look which is hard to pull off even by the giraffes of this world. Maybe it was because of the dresses they were wearing? Maybe because Fast chose to use the sterotype skinny models aswell, but the larger girls just didn't look good.

Don't get me wrong...i'm all for plus size models on the catwalk, i think we need to do something to change this idea that to look good you must be thin, before too many of our young girls get distorted body images...but... don't think this was the best attempt at that.

If he had perhaps used all plus size girls it would have been fine, but it was the mix of the two, with the higher ratio leaning to the skinnies, that made the rest stand out like saw saw thumbs!

I think the bigger factor should be not just getting larger role models out there, but showing how you can dress to suit your body shape, whatever size you are.

B is for Burberry Prorsum...B is for Beautiful!

Not only did Christopher Bailey and Burberry produce a beautiful collection complete with the newest re-work of the signature trench for SS/10, but they also managed to land a huge show tent in Westminster and were the hosts of one of fashion weeks biggest parties.

The collection showcased new colours for Burberry of tonally sweet pastels and re-visited an exaggerated take on the tangled chiffon dresses Bailey showed in SS/05.

All in all another very successful show for the Prorsum label, complete with its signature details of fabulous bags and shoes teamed with ankle socks, to match the colours hues of the outfits...and of course short hems and layering was a must, not to mention the supermodel line-up.

C is for making a comeback!

Over the knee boots.....

once a fashion faux-par, seen only on 'working girls' and for that matter 'boys' in back allies across the globe...style note: pretty woman and that oh so awful scene, where she is refused help in the boutique on rodeo drive!

Now....a fashion must, seen all over the catwalks and on fashionista's the world over, (though thigh circumference must be assessed first!)

Possibly a chic grown up note to the last time they were in fashion, and worn by the likes of Abba. Could it be an after effect of the massive success that was mamma mia? After all influences on trends have to come from somewhere....

S is for street chic....

For years, it has been celebs with their thousand dollar dresses and cult forming haircuts from whom we have taken style tips and 'borrowed' looks from....remember the 'jennifer' cut or the kate moss shorts, but now it seems there are a new breed of 'icons'...a less obvious one to copy....the individuals.

It was true with fashion week, and it is true when you go to any fashionable event...that the line of people waiting to go in, is often more of a spectacle then the one they are going to see!

You can pinch style tips and ideas without looking like a clone, and noone will ever know where you have taken it from....Fashion theft....love it!