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Celebrity fans rock up at fashion designer event

LONDON Fashion Week recently concluded and threw down the gauntlet to rival cities on the global circuit after successfully showcasing two of fashion’s big hitters: Emporio Armani and Tommy Hilfiger. Meanwhile, quintessential British brands like Burberry went retro with an old design, while innovative fashionistas, like Christopher Kane, served a mixed-up of housecoats and lingerie.

Emporio Armani

The 83-year-old Italian design legend, who usually stages his shows in Milan, has returned to London Fashion Week for the first time in years with much fanfare, with One Direction’s Liam Payne and singer Ellie Goulding were among those spotted in the show’s front row.

To mark the reopening of an Emporio Armani flagship store in the British capital, the brand hosted a star-studded catwalk show and an after-party with free-flowing champagne, and it displayed a giant “Emporio Armani” light projection onto a Thames-side building.

The designer chose a vast former warehouse for his show, filling it with cheerful, rainbow-hued summer outfits that evoke carefree vacations in sunnier climes. While these may not be the most trend-setting clothes there is something here for everyone

Christopher Kane

Christopher Kane mixed it all up at London Fashion Week, showing a wide array of outfits, with some emphasizing florals to others that were sheer, lacy and revealing.

He described the show as built on “ideas of the prime and the perverse” referencing 1940s housecoats, using lingerie as outerwear and creating a new silhouette that blended the 1940s with the 1970s. The outfits used strong colors among other hues and showed off whimsical touches, including ones that seemed to be held together by metallic clothes pins.

Tommy Hilfiger

Designer Tommy Hilfiger staged a grungy rock affair for their show on the final night of London Fashion Week.

The Tuesday show was presented at London’s Roundhouse, where concert-style merchandise stalls had pieces from the TOMMYNOW collection available to purchase around the venue. The outfits included leather jackets with leopard print collars, worn with cropped denim shorts and beanie hats.

Burberry

Remember the Burberry check, so ubiquitous and widely copied in the early 2000s that it became a fashion faux pas? It’s back this season, in a big way.

The vintage brown check is everywhere on Burberry’s new season runway: on baseball caps, oversized tote bags and belted coats for both men and women. And that’s just one of many themes designer Christopher Bailey featured this season. There’s tartan, reimagined military coats and riding shirts, plastic outerwear, sheer embroidered dresses, plus cosy pink faux fur coats.

Supermodels Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell were among those who turned up for the show, which was staged together with and inspired by an exhibition of 20th-century photography showing portraits of British life.




 

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