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London Fashion Week Designer, Roksanda Ilincic’s Hot Pink dress 

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London Fashion Week  just Last month, featured our very own fashion editor Lisa Armstrong prediction that the hot pink, lantern-sleeved creation by Roksanda Ilincic could well be the new Galaxy Dress. To the uninitiated, she was referring to the utterly feminine curve-enhancing dress by Roland Mouret loved by Victoria Beckham, Carol Vorderman, Dita Von Teese and

Fall 2012 London Fashion Week stand-out couture line

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Spijkers en Spijkers womens fall fashion collection looks back at the eccentric but sheltered Edie Bovier Beale. The twin fashion designers chose ‘Birds of Paradise’ as their title and inspiration: a phrase the Dutch use to describe eccentric and colorful people. They used socialite Edie Bovier Beale, a true bird of paradise, as their London muse.

Colorful fall embroidered exotic fashion birds adorned (or should I say perched upon) jackets, fashion dresses and shirts. The color palette featured: Ceylon yellow, Bordeaux, lime green, mulberry purple and burnt orange with flashes of black and night shadow blue.

London fashion style was the early 1940s, haute couture luxurious fabrics of silk dupion, silk satin, crepe de chine, silk wool blends and printed silk wool maple. Although the

Fashion Week in March / April 2012

International Fashion Week in March and April take their inspiration from the big splashes made in January in New York, Paris and Milan runways. – - ©ourtesy of ahRamonline.com

Miami Fashion Week poster, by Kleuddy Abreu, winner of graphic design contest

March/April Fashion Weeks around the world!

21 – 25 March
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Russia Collections
Moscow

27 March – 1 April
ID Fashion Show
Dunedin, New Zealand

30 April – 4 May
Rosemount Australian Fashion Week collection
Sydney

Fatima Lopes kicks off Paris Fall 2012 Fashion Week

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PARIS fashion designer, Fatima Lopes kicked off Paris 2012 fall-winter ready-to-wear season Tuesday with blood reds, provocative leathers and fox fur at the Hotel des Invalides war museum. The Portuguese designer channeled human morphology with blood-red dress inserts, shredded leather sleeves and prints of the venous system in the iconic monument that was built for generals wounded in French imperial wars. Bucking the current trend for padding, the Lopes woman in geometric sheaths had narrow shoulders a look that would have accentuated the frailty of the tiny-boned models had it not been for the provocative leathers in patent black and nude. “Yes, I make tiny shoulders and waists. But this is not weak. It’s feminine and sexy, therefore strong,” said the designer backstage, wearing one of her figure-hugging creations. And sexy was the overriding mood, with bias-cut sheaths split revealingly up the leg and exposing the shoulders. In another sensual look with a plunging decollete, voluminous brown fox fur sleeves contrasted with tight patent leather lapels and a second-skin micro skirt. When the show ended, the crowd departed sheepishly through the courtyard, with 40 huge canons pointing straight at them. – - see Gallery  : NOTE: International Icons reign supreme at this Paris

London Fashion Week Designers sportswear trends

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Erin Mullaney cut her fashion teeth at Selfridges and Browns, iconic U.K. stores known for their cutting-edge mix of luxury designers. It’s no wonder then the current fashion and brand director for new luxury e-tailer Avenue 32 has a penchant for fashion forward looks. We caught up with Ms. Mullaney at the end of London Fashion Week to make use of her expert eye for fashion, which that morning had paired leather trousers with a leopard-print crombie. London designers remained avant garde with their collections.

What were your highlights this season? The usual suspects. London Fashion Week

Fashion BURBURRY Prosum Show in London Dazzles

Cara Delevingne walks the runway during the Burberry Prorsum show at London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 at Kensington Gardens

©ourtesy BelfastTelegraph by Susannah Frankel  - – If London is still predominantly famous for its fledgling names, the exception that proves the rule is Burberry, a globally recognized international fashion brand with the money and power behind it to match. London Burberry Prorsum has been showcased in the British capital since 2009 (prior to that the show was in Milan Haute Couture show alongside

London Fall Season celebrates ALEXANDER McQUEEN

 Fashion Work of art: Models had gravity-defying sculptural Hair Military-inspired

MCQ by ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: A MILITARY-THEMED CATWALK DEBUT THAT ELEVATED THIS LABEL TO HIGH FASHION

In light of this season, a fashion enchanted forest, the floor carpeted with Fall  fallen leaves, Sarah Burton unveiled the first ever catwalk show for Alexander McQueen McQ label – and she chose the brand’s hometown of London to do it. The fashion shows major departure from McQ’s previously street style vibe – there was no denim, no tartan. Instead, there was high fashion. Military style coats in black and forest green had cinched waists but wonderful volume, created by layers of tulle underneath. Prom dresses, slim leather overcoats, thigh-length boots. Elsewhere, more tulle – this time on an attitudey prom dress, sewn with thousands of colorful petals. Lapels were wide, jackets were neat. There was velvet, wool and heavy embroidery: luxury fabrics that took this label to a new level. I loved the military belts with gold chains, the perfectly cut coats and the luxurious velvet – and of course, that gravity-defying hair very McQueen inspired in the Crystal Palace. – - DEBORAH ARTHURS

A carpet of leaves created a forest feel inside the London venue

Fall Season at ACNE, London

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ACNE FALL/WINTER 2012.13 

Acne was all about layering, belts, small waists and lots of fabric! Super thick waist belts took over the show (the new-age corset, perhaps?), nipping in quilted jackets, and luring through inflated shirts. Colors started in deep dark maroons and oranges onto more acidic splashes of green, blues, and yellow. Structure and definition rained the Acne show for sure. A+! -TLI | International Icons reign supreme at this London Fashion Week. Fashion

Samantha Cameron, Lana Del Rey at London Fashion Week

It’s Presidents Day in the U.S., but fortunately we have London to satisfy our taste for fashion news. Starting at the top, Samantha Cameron, wife of British Prime Minister David Cameron, sat on the front row of Christopher Kane’s runway show Monday during London Fashion Week. She is her husband’s “ambassador” to the British Fashion Council. [Telegraph] Mulberry adopted singer Lana Del Rey for its showing, creating a bag named after her, sitting her front row at the runway and enticing her to sing at the brand’s party Sunday night. [The Cut] Plenty of other celebrities and socialites have been taking in the shows as well, including Olivia Palermo, Alexa Chung, Pixie Geldof and singers Alexandra Burke and Kate Nash.  [Telegraph] So far, the designers in London seem to be showing more colorful clothes for fall than did the designers at New York Fashion Week. [The Cut] Top modeling agencies in Britain are prohibiting their models from using tanning beds, due to the risk factors for skin cancer — and wrinkles too. [Fashionista]  — by Susan Denley

©Photo: Samantha Cameron, center, at Christopher Kane’s London Fashion Week show. Credit:  Lewis Whyld /PA / Associated Press

Best Looks from London F/W

See our favorite looks from the top shows in London. Plus, check out our complete Fall 2012 Fashion Week coverage.

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Peter Pilotto Fall 2012

Peter Pilotto’s Christopher De Vos and Peter Pilotto continue to be one of the bright spots on the London calendar and a runaway shows favorite of the British press. With more collections like fall, it’s well deserved praise. Their inspiration was Asian art and architecture. Their lineup was sexy and bold. Even their cropped, sculpted puffer jackets with zany prints looked body-con, which is a feat. They channeled the bright neon lights of Japan into stripes and abstracts printed on skin-tight t-shirts and paneled skirts. There were shades of Nicolas in the strong attitude of the girls. The duo took the turtleneck and turned it into a sultry velvet look for evening, its bodice a structured lattice of straps and and cut-outs. Skinny cropped pants, t-shirts and dresses were worked in big florals. When sleeves didn’t hug shoulders and arms, they were pumped up. The same lean lines applied to evening, a gray floor-grazing look paneled with what looked like skewed neon lighting. It was smart and provocative and right on trend with the notion of not wearing the obvious for evening. To the left we see Matthew Williamson, the prince of prints and pattern, harnessed all those years of understanding how to mix them into a lady-fied, grown up collection. While it was still Williamson-fun — there was a lot of colored fur — the collection will surely appeal to a new set of customers, while giving his core something new to think about. He strongly messaged