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Diverse spring collections provide plenty of choice

LONDON Fashion Week brings out the best in designers with Burberry opting for bright colors, Tom Ford bringing back rock ’n’ roll glam, Vivienne Westwood turning heads with her femme fatale looks and Christopher Kane feeling moody. 

Christopher Kane

Christopher Kane’s spring and summer look is pretty dark and stormy, with its leathers, wine shades and bondage details.

The fetish theme, one of the designer’s favorites, showed in slinky little satin dresses with provocative cut outs around the chest that made crisscross windows across the torso.

A seductive burgundy dominated much of the collection, though a vibrant lilac blue and a silky champagne provided some lightness.

There were structured dresses with origami folds and oversized, mannish jackets — both also Kane’s favored looks — and their sharp edges were tempered with soft, prom dress-like pleated tulle skirts.

Burberry

As if to perk up audiences ahead of a dreary grey winter, Burberry Prorsum showed off a spring collection bursting with bright rainbow colors and cheerful prints of beetles, bees and dragonflies.

The luxury British clothing label’s show also confirmed that the humble sneaker and the flat sandal — the sporty, thick-strapped kind — are definitely the footwear of the moment come spring.

The casual shoes were worn with romantic tutu-like tulle dresses in jewel shades like emerald and amethyst, finished with a pretty silk ribbon belt tied in a bow.

Also notably back on trend is the jean jacket, though here it’s far from humdrum. A cinched in one, shaped like a bustier to accentuate the waist, opened the show.

No Burberry show is complete without some variation of the brand’s famous trench coat, and this season they came in vibrant prints and loud shades.

Tom Ford 

Tom Ford has taken his runway to the disco — and with the dark room and all those sparkly sequins, guests almost missed one VIP sitting in their midst.

Actor Bradley Cooper took his seat in the front, chatting amiably with Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

For his latest collection, Ford went full on rock’ n’ roll glam with lashings of sequins, jewels and leather in black, silver, burnished gold and metallic green prints with an oil slick or camouflage effect.

Models looked like members of a rock band with their thick tousled manes and thick eyeliner, and wore skin-tight sequined tops and bell-bottom pants with an exaggerated flare.

One dramatic outfit featured what looked like a tight catsuit covered all over with black sequins, worn with a matching cape. The looks were finished with very high platform shoes in animal print. The display was rounded off by a series of risque sheer evening gowns.

Vivienne Westwood 

Vivienne Westwood fans and fashionistas know that the Red Label show almost never strays from her signature femme fatale style, whatever the latest trends are. Sunday’s collection was as saucy as ever: There were bustiers, beautifully draped blouses and dresses, micro shorts and sculpted evening gowns in summery floral prints.

Over the past few years, clothes have played second fiddle for Westwood, who is more keen to devote her attention to causes from climate change to campaigning in support of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange.

Westwood said she plans to scale down her production and focus on quality over quantity, although she has no plans to exit the fashion world — if only to continue to use it as a platform for activism.

“It gives me an opportunity to try to say things,” she said. “People do listen because they like to hear people who stick their heads out to say a few things.”




 

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