Emerging Fervour

Everyone is gearing up for this month’s London Fashion Week. The designers are making the finishing touches to their collection, the exhibitors are making sure they have enough marketing material and business cards to hand out, the buyers are finalising their ‘who to see’ plan and the bloggers are scheduling their weeks in the run up to, through and past fashion week.

With so much to cover your first port of call must be exploring the designer exhibitions at Somerset House and the ON|OFF Section at Victoria House. Back in September, we covered BodyAmr, Kron by KronKron, Beekay, Beautiful Soul, Rachael Cassar, Rocio Bags and a few others from the exhibitions and this season we’re planning on covering a lot more!

19TH – 23RD FEB EMERGING DESIGNERS EXHIBITIONS FROM SOMERSET HOUSE ∨

AND ON|OFF 19TH – 22ND FEB∨

You can also check out all the things to do in between shows with the London Fashion Week City Guide A/W 10. In fact, LFW along with Red Maps have provided us with maps that are available on site, you can also open a pdf and print it out, just visit the map page on the LFW site.

The people at London Fashion Weekend…

How cute does the girl on the right look?

Daisy brightened up the day

Elena looking luminous in block colour and animal print jersey dress

Lizzy & Steph striking a pose. Really like the oversized bow!

Check out Nathalie’s entry on the London Fashion Weekend. We’ve also created a brand new ‘Spotted’ set on Flickr where we’ll be uploading all our pictures of outfits we love!

I’ve just come back from Somerset House and 180 The Strand, which after a week of the London Fashion Week is now kicking off the London Fashion Weekend in association with Elle where over 120 designers are offering fabulous discounts for their autumn/winter 09 collection. The event started yesterday and will be going on until the 27th September.

For me the highlight was certainly the catwalk which was hosted by Louise Row, who not only looked beautiful but was brilliant.

And check out the shoes!!

Sadly my camera by then was dying and I only managed to grab a few shots.

Shoulder pad trend

Prints trends

Manish Arora, I loved his animal inspired collection, nicely quirky

Jaeger London

After the catwalk, with the goodie bag over my shoulder and a glass of champagne consumed, the shopping continued. Did I find anything? I did, but not for myself, a wicked leather jacket for my friend for £49!!

If we’ve snapped you, then why don’t you leave a comment and tell us about yourself and your fabulous outfits? We so want to hear more and we know everyone else does…

Tatjana looking very well put together

Megan so lovely, and amazing outfit

Megan’s shoes…

Wow – so well put together!

Kelly from Paris looking très cool

Jonno – laid back cool

Colin too cool for cold

Loving the bling harem pants

Quirky prints brightened up our day

Such a lovely guy and a wicked outfit!

Karlee or is it Mischa Barton?

How gorgeous is she? I’m loving the whole look

Mimma Viglezio (Executive Vice President of Gucci Group) such a well put together outfit. We love!

Mimma’s Yves Saint Laurent heels…yes we know – gorgeous right?

Rosie looking very girlie

We absolutely fell in love with her! Look how cute!

We love the leather look as you know!

No really just because I spotted Christian Louboutin strolling into Somerset House at London Fashion Week!!! He looked great and I especially loved the leopard print shoes! I so badly wanted to go up to him and say hi, but chickened out to begin with…I mean look, it’s CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN!

All day we’ve been seeing some amazing Christian Louboutin shoes and earlier on we couldn’t miss these amazing ones that belong to Melissa, Anne and Nour.

It turned out that they all work for Christian Louboutin and were awaiting his arrival.

After the catwalk show I spotted Anne and asked if it would be ok to have a picture taken with him and hurrah, he was up for it!! I felt like a teenager meeting her pop idol, all nervous and so excited; meeting Christian Louboutin is the last thing that I expected to happen to me. I just about managed to say I loved his shoes and a quick “thank you”, but this brief encounter was plenty to keep us happy all day!

London Fashion Week is usually the place to see and be seen, to bitch and be bitched about and to see the next big thing. Walking onto the courtyard, you’re instantly taken aback by the amout of trendy people there are on show.

In this piece we’ll be focussing on designers we saw and loved at London Fashion Week. LFW is made up of seven blocks, spanning two sites and hosting over 200 designers. It’s no wonder that this is one of the most prestigious fashion events in the world. To see the full exhibition list go to the London Fashion Week site in the meantime, check out our favourites.

CLEO BARBOUR

Probably my favourtie designer because I absolutey adored the pink boots – around £360 retail price and loved Cleo even more. With so much talent, it’s no surprise that she already has an online boutique and various stockists. Educated at the prestigious Cordwainer’s College at the London College of Fashion, and trained at the Salvatore Ferrangano design studio in Florence, Cleo has created a niche of her own in the London fashion scene by launching her up and coming shoe label ‘CLEO B’.

So Emerging Fervour ventured out to Embankment today to celebrate the 25th anniversary of London Fashion Week. LONG LIVE LONDON FASHION WEEK!

We have a few pictures that tugged at our fashion-filled heart-strings…

We’ll be uploading some more pictures onto Flickr – we’ll give you the link on our next entry, so make sure you keep yourselves posted! For your next LFW snippet, check back tomorrow for our next entry on the fashion designers exhibiting at this amazing event.