London Fashion Week A/W07-8 Day 2

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Please excusez moi this week if you miss the relentless postings I usually do but LFW barely allows me time to eat let alone sit down and blog so I hope you don’t mind terribly for the next week or so getting my daily ramblings on LFW.

I don’t know how it happened but somewhere between Paul Costelloe and Ben di Lisi yesterday, I caught some heinous cold which I tried to remedy quickly this morning with Lemsip powder. Hence why outfit was shoddily put together and photographed. Moreover the fashion turnout at all the shows today was fab x 100% that again, for the second day in a row, ground, swallow and up springs to mind.

Shuffling back and forth between the tent at the Natural History Museum and the Piazza in Covent Garden where the Topshop venue is, it seemed to me the courtesy LFW coaches were taking a strangely scenic London route, passing Harrods, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and Trafalgar Square. As if to say, ‘Hey, LFW isn’t so bad! Its not crammed full of big names but we’ll give you this tourist route to give you the best of London!.’ Nice ploy, BFC…. I see where you’re going there…

I have also come up with a theory that involves some mathematics. The bigger the hair of fashionista = the pushier and more diva-esque said fashionista is. I saw a lot of big hair today. Plenty of volume, plenty of hairspray. lots of boing boing. What comes with the big hair is also the need to say ‘Do you mind?’ very loudly or ‘Excuse me’ with an emphasis on the ‘me’ even though nobody is actually in their way in anyway shape or form and also a lot of whining at the PR’s… ‘Well I work for/know so and so and its just ridiculous that you’re not letting me in…. ‘ rah rah rah. Still, it gave me a chuckle amidst coughing my brains away.

Shows watched: Noir (soft and tough at the same time), Peter Jensen (lots of interesting headgear to think about), Fashion East (fun fun fun - you’ll all be wanting a HoH shirt), John Rocha (exquisitely beautiful), Richard Nicoll (over-hyped…. only so much you can do with a mans shirt), Manish Arora (much better than last season and surprisingly cool), Todd Lynn (jutty out pointy shoulders)

Wearing: Bernstock Spiers silver straw cloche, TS Boutique double layered black jersey racerback, grey slash neck top, vintage silver strapless dress, clasp purse necklace, H&M silver belt, grey ribbed tights, black criss-cross strap shoe/boots from The Laden Showroom

Note about the fur thing going on in London - yes there is a lot of it, but most of it is fake. I wouldn’t mind making like this guy here with a faux furry something something on the shoulder // Not sure about elsewhere but the fashion industry in London do eat…especially in the Topshop venue in Covent Garden where hospitality is very good indeed! Mini English Breakfast tartlets and glasses of bucks fizz?

Some people are mad for neons….. some people aren’t. I want to combine the two….

Who’s got your back? Sequinned backs on a trench coat or buttons sewn onto a collar. I think I will definitely do the latter!

I hate to sound like those annoying kids in that Disneyland advert but Lily Cole and Erin O’Connor looked simply ‘MAGICAL’ wearing those Noir dresses.