Fashion weeks are preview of what you're going to see in the high streets for the year ahead. New trends, new brands, new stores and the street style unveil which bloggers and trendsetters should watch out for.
The recent London Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2014 that took place in the Somerset House was a poignant success. September 13 to 17 was the week for A- list dressers and front row head honchos from over 50 countries; all with the privilege to bask in such a high profile event.
The British Fashion Council opened its first store. It vended selected pieces from eight designers- Sophia Webster, Bella Freud, Zoe Jordan, Markus Lupfer, Prism, House of Holland, Dominic Jones and Lulu & Co.
It's easy to get swooned over trends with all these insightful fashion names parading in the runway. But the most interesting part is always taking the style on the street level.
Often fashion is equated with congruence. You pair skirts with pumps or wedges, and shorts with floppies and slip-ons. But the LFW is a switchover to that. It is where fashion doesn't need to match but go together. It's an eclectic blend of bold and classic prints and geometrical cuts, and an elaborate dare to be womanish and rugged at the same time. I think that if relationships can be fashion, it should be like the SS14. The boy goes with the girl, and so the other way.
Here's a snatch of photos from the LFW ramp, captured by Catwalking.com, of how designers matched androgynous basics with classic feminine pieces.
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Outfit
Oversize jumpers and A-line skirts ranked top in the collection-- from Antipodium, Christopher Kane, Burberry Prorsum, Fashion East, Holly Fulton and Orla Kiely.
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Luxurious clouque' fabrics, floral designs, and elaborate graphic prints made a statement. This print trend dissected art and summer glow collectively.
Eudon Choi, Fashion East, GILES, Jean-Pierre Braganza, Makus Lupfer, Ostwald Helgason and Tata-Naka collections were very well appliqued. Holly Fulton and House of Holland flaunted baroque embellishments while Sister by Sibling and Sophia Webster donned girlish sweatshirts over neutral underclothes.
Fierce grunge look also fell in with a touch of sexy. Fyodor Golan's see through organza skirt paired with a monogram jumper was a pure excellence. Holly Fulton bragged some flesh in her cut out dress collection alongside Marios Schwab who designed a classic punk ensemble. Haizhen Wang, Orla Kiely, Paul Smith, Todd Lynn and Zoe Jordan picked comfy shorts and open coat style. KTZ pushed a metallic grunge-- a rhapsody of modern avante-garde.
