Emerging Fervour

Day 2 started with Elliott J. Frieze and what a start! This seasons silhouettes draws inspiration from the 1970′s, while embroidery, and textiles pay homage to this favourite childhood author, Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake.

The colour palette was a caffeine mixtures, such as Latte, Mochas and Espresso and of course black – stunning! Draped jersey, tailored corduroy and Labswool cocktail dresses, one outfit nicer than the other.

I love it the elegance of it and can see myself and many of my girlfriends or boyfriends as such in this collection.

Ashton from JLS at Fashion Mavericks

Deborah Ababio from Asara Dee, this is one of  her own bows

Wearing Wrangler

Bob, our favourite security man, and his colourful friend

As every year this is the one catwalk which we love the most as you get to watch 4 catwalks in one hit but it’s also the 4 brightest new emerging stars in the fashion world.

Anja Mlakar

Her debut ‘Blue Tube’ collection echoes elements of the three dimensional and sensual silhouettes; while clean lines and a muted colour palette signify her venture into a new breed of elegance.

Kirsty Ward

Central Saint Martins’ Kirsty Ward graduated in 2008 with distinction and went straight on to design for Alberta Ferretti in Italy. She launched her label with a S/S11 debut at Vauxhall Fashion Scout during LFW. Her trademark use of metal jewellery combines to create structured silhouettes and classical pieces.

Sara Bro-Jorgensen

Let us show you!! Evelyn Kutschera was lucky enough to get to hang out backstage and shoot the run up to the Jasper Garvida catwalk and as always managed to take the most amazing shots:

The lovely Jasper

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We do love a bit of luxury (even if we can’t quite afford it…) so Jasper Garvida, luxury womens’ wear fashion designer, is right up our street and his collection is one of the favourites I’ve seen – although I am known to love sleek, classical, wearable styles.

Inspired by the novel ‘Soie’ by Alessandro Baricco – a romantic tale of a European man who becomes enchanted by the east – the collection focuses on contrasts, and the beauty that can be formed when two different worlds intertwine. With elements of 19th century design combined with an oriental silhouette, the collection incorporates strong streamlined tailoring and soft draping with demure skirt lengths that have been given a sexy edge in the form of daring slits and peek-a-boo cut-outs to reveal flashes sensuality.

The slick tailoring, armour-like-hand-embellishment and textured pieces are combined with beautiful, softly draped silk jersey and, lace pieces that depict the journey of two opposite worlds meeting, to create balance, harmony, grace and elegance – all of which serves to add an intriguing romantic undertone to the collection.

I started day 1 with Ada and ended it with her and what a fabulous end it was! The aftershow party was held at Concrete in Shoreditch and the later it got the more exciting the outfits and face paints got!!!

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We started Day 1 of London Fashion Week at On/Off where Ada Zanditon was showing her A/W 2011/12 collection ‘THE CRYOFLUX’.

Zanditon has been going from strength to strength and the venue was packed as her film was shown and you could feel the buzz about her new collection.

This season she’s taken inspiration from the extreme climate of Antarctica, the theme can be discovered in the engineered print of the Antarctic; the colour palette of navy, marine, flame and dark flame; the fluidity and structural elements of the fabrics as well as the exaggerated and asymmetrical lines of the garments.

The collection features a range of dresses, from tailored influences to fluid looser asymmetric shift dresses. True to form, Zanditon has included a selection of sensational showpiece dresses, inspired by the captivating natural formations of the Antarctic broken, frozen waterfalls.

The Jewellery, which once again sees Zanditon collaborating with Luca Romanyi, features printed tile, silver chain, black vegetable-tanned leather and metal in a range of geometric shapes. One word: WICKED!

Day 1 at London Fashion Week was a feast for the eyes, check out who we snapped:

My favourite outfit of the day!! The lovely Jennifer from www.rubybrowning.co.uk

Brix Smith is always so lovely when we ask for a photo – thanks for being so nice!!

No this is not a mannequin, he’s alive and kicking.

We want this vintage coat!!!

Loving the geek chic!

And it wouldn’t be a London Fashion Week without bumping into:

Jeffrey Michael Baker www.jeffreymichaeldesign.co.uk

Tommy Lloyd-Baker and his every changing face www.tommylloydbaker.com

Colin Munro www.colinmunro.co.uk

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Now that 2010 is over, we can start thinking about the summer, queue Emma Bell, her beautiful SS11 designs have got us going all weak at the knees…

British designer, Emma Bell is a creative consultant with three LFW seasons under her belt as well as a string of collaborative projects. Partnerships and projects have included GM/Vauxhall Motors, Irregular Choice, Designers Against Aids, Soda Stream, Quartier21, Jodie Harsh and Lambrini.

Recently though, busy bee Emma has been awarded a place as Artist in Residence as part of the ‘Mino Paper Art Village Project’ in Japan. New pieces of work based around a collaboration between the traditional values of Washi and current materials were showcased at the Washi Musuem in Gifu Prefecture as part of the exhibition ‘Let Momo Eat Cake’.

Beautiful work – to check out her site, visit www.emma-bell.com