LONDON — After an action-packed 15 years, Caroline Rush plans to step down in June as chief executive officer of the British Fashion Council, and the search for her successor is on. The London-based Egon Zehnder is leading the search, supported by BFC chair David Pemsel, who has extended his tenure to 2025 to ensure a … Read more
For her first standalone collection at London fashion week, following two seasons as part of the talent incubator Fashion East and a Dolce & Gabbana sponsored SS24 turn in Milan, Vitto took inspiration from Brazil’s annual Iemanjá festival, which sees people offer flowers and gifts to the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea. ‘It’s beautiful because … Read more
The London Fashion Week schedule was a jam-packed occasion with shows and presentations taking place across the city, as well as off-schedule showcases. Here, some of the season’s highlights that you may have missed. Mithridate Mithridate Courtesy of Mithridate Mithridate, a Chinese label that has been showing in London for a few seasons, presented on … Read more
LONDON — Members of the British fashion community gathered at 10 Downing Street after the Burberry show Monday to meet and greet Keir Starmer, Britain’s new labor prime minister. Speaking in front of a room of well-known faces – Christopher Bailey, Naomi Campbell, Sadiq Khan, Paul Smith, Simone Rocha, Christopher Kane, Erdem Moralıoğlu, David Koma, … Read more
Britney Spears’ “Overprotected,” boomed through the speakers at Ashley Williams’ intimate Soho show, a riff on female naiveté, and perhaps on Spears herself. There were babydoll bodysuits with peter-pan collars and long, drapey dresses printed with cutesy bunnies, while bib collars were transformed into frills. It was all feeling a little Lolita until halfway through … Read more
Victoria Starmer wore one of Lee’s creations at last year’s Labour party conference AFP Canadian-British designer Edeline Lee presented her latest spring-summer 2025 collection at London Fashion Week (LFW) on Monday with a loyal customer in attendance — Victoria Starmer, the wife of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The label with the fitting tagline “Clothing … Read more
Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida, who have always preferred showing in East London, decided to shake things up this season and go to the center of town in Covent Garden with a quirky show that took place at St. Paul’s Church. The pair got stuck into history, however. “There’s 17th century, 18th century, Baroque influences … Read more
Emilia Wickstead is a bookworm, and once she finds a subject, she digs deep. This season she doted on the work and life of Gisèle Freund, a German French photographer and photojournalist who captured intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp in colored portraits. Freund favored tints of red … Read more
Thanks to a certain presidential candidate, pantsuits for women are getting a global spotlight, and Erdem Moralıoğlu cast his vote for tailoring, opening his spring show in London with a slouchy, double-breasted pinstriped number, made in collaboration with Sextons of Savile Row. But then a shimmering flapper dress with a flounced hem immediately followed, queueing up … Read more
Amid frantic efforts to create vital moments, appoint the right celebrity ambassadors and awe audiences with spellbinding runway sets, Jonathan Anderson is instead returning to the building blocks of fashion. He used only four materials for his spring women’s show — cashmere, leather, silk and sequins — and still managed to razzle-dazzle ’em. This JW … Read more
