Just went for one afternoon of LFW, but oh my Joe Jonas what a glorious day. Late September in London is better than high summer in London. Enjoyed a jammy front row seat at KTZ and ended up peeling down to my sleeveless in the super sunny and lively Menswear Installations tent. That's where the fun was. And where I discovered Christopher Raeburn. Exquisitely constructed rain jackets in tangy + earthy colours.
First catwalk show was James Long which was good, really good. Muted rusts and blues in leather jackets, rucksacks, slouchy jumpers and shorts with brown ankle boots. Nirvana drifted in and out in the music. I loved it, but was badly seated, wouldn't ya say?
At KTZ, which was mens and womens, I liked the black and gold.
Not so much the black and white:
The long Installations tent was broken into different designers displaying their collections in entertaining ways. British designer Katie Eary teamed up with boxer James DeGale and Lonsdale to create a pugilists' training room of sorts. It was quite authentically boxing ring-like. Not really.
Omar Kashoura jazzed up the middle of the installations tent with a gentlemanly little band:
Mr Straw jacket here was wearing a Belgian design. Said it was uncomfortable; at least he admitted it. Good thing about not working the shows properly means I have time to finally find out things like who the heck this lady is:
Tracy Rose, a hat designer. I used to take her picture back in the early noughties just cuz. She's *always* at Fashion Week in a big hat, a yuck dress and if you saw her fingernails you'd gasp audibly. Actually you can see them, look close.
As some guy said in the Menswear Installations queue today, you couldn't have more fun at the circus.
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