London Fashion Week
Impossibly waif-like, ephemeral beauty is about to descend on London this month. London Fashion Week is here and so therefore is the time when we remember why we read about Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, et al., every day in our newspapers; it is the time when they actually get to do their job. I’m not criticizing, I’m not judging, but come on, they don’t seem to do a vast amount apart from get dressed up in their posh frocks and and appear in the central pages of your London freesheet stumbling out of some club in Mayfair. But now all this comes to an end for a few days, as it does each year in England, when the industry goes on show.
You can read a letter from London (London Fashion Week’s introduction to itself via cartoon graphics and photography) here and check out the the artwork of the company involved here.
You can get a short term flat from RatedApartments close to London Fashion Week here.
London Fashion Week runs from 19th to 23rd of February in Somerset House (London Bridge is only a short drive away). Over 200 designers will be on show at the exhibition there, as well as the British Fashion Council’s show and presentation. In addition to the catwalk designers, there is also a presentation by NEWGEN (New Generation), which was created by the British Fashion Council in 1993 in order to showcase emerging talent. Alexander McQueen and Matthew Williamson are among its alumni.
But you might want to have a look at Fashematics for a different take on the proceedings:
