London Fashion Week Day 1

Some miscellaneous images from yesterday at London Fashion Week. I wish I had time to do a more in-depth post but I'm covering it for another website as well as working! I had Paul Costelloe and Corrie Nielson in the morning (I sadly had to miss Caroline Charles as I had a very important errand to run), followed by a screening of the Ada Zanditon collection in the afternoon and Basso & Brooke in the evening. As you can see, I was invited to PPQ but didn't get there early enough to be at the front of the queue - they were oversubscribed and shut the doors, leaving quite a few people out of the proceedings. Sad times.

The photos are from the Corrie Nielson show - a kind of Victoriana/Japanese theme (I'll post a link soon to my more in-depth coverage of it). It was the first time I'd been to the venue (the old sorting office on New Oxford Street) and I have to say I was taken with it. The twinkly lights were incredible! 

Anyway, I hope to post more soon - today I enjoyed the DAKS show and later I'm off to John Rocha and the Sibling presentation.

LFW re-see: Jayne Pierson

I was lucky enough to be in the front row for Welsh designer Jayne Pierson's catwalk show at London Fashion Week. Annoyingly, this was the only show I had my camera for, and the battery died halfway through.

Entitled 'Kingdom of Shadows', the collection clearly wasn't giving up on the gothic vibe that we've been seeing for a few seasons now. Black, black and more black was broken up only by the blue and silver of the gown above.

While I'm a bit over the Victoriana look, particularly in such extremes as this, some of the details really stood out. The corsetry of the afore-mentioned gown would not have looked out of place in a Vivienne Westwood collection, and the velvet detail over the sheer fabric that you can see in the third shot was really delicate and interesting. It's only the designer's fourth season at LFW, and it seems fairly certain we can expect some exciting things in the future.