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Heavyweight designers gather to unveil their latest inspired creations for fall and winter at London Fashion Week.
Burberry
Burberry typically puts on London Fashion Week’s glitziest show and the front row VIPs often threaten to upstage the clothes.
For fall and winter, the label’s design chief Christopher Bailey offered up dozens of new variations of Burberry’s bestselling trench coat. The standout styles were in putty-colored leather, hand-painted with floral designs.
There was plenty more warm outerwear to choose from, including painted shearling jackets, blanket coats and wool ponchos in bold geometric prints, and heavy blanket scarves embroidered with initials.
Bailey said he wanted the mood of the collection to convey soft femininity and romance, but with some sex appeal thrown in.
Tom Ford
Tom Ford may be best known for his razor-sharp suits and slinky womenswear, but the designer showed a humorous side with a catwalk collection playing on his own fame and rapper Jay Z.
The designer’s catwalk, unveiled at London Fashion Week, featured sequined football jerseys emblazoned with the giant white letters “TOM FORD 61.”
That’s a playful reference to Jay Z, who recorded a song called “Tom Ford” and wore a similar jersey — without the sequins — at his shows.
“I just took the knock off from online, and knocked it off,” Ford said after the show, which also featured black and red velvet dresses, sporty hoodies and animal print separates worn with high-heel boots.
Ford said the collection was about “modest luxury” and updates on 1960s shapes and the styles women wear in the American West, where he grew up.
Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood showcased a vampy collection that was signature Westwood, with tartan, pinstripes, expertly nipped in blazers, and perfectly draped dresses. The models’ matte red lips, tousled curly hairstyles, retro pill box hats and mid-heel court shoes gave the collection a classic, retro feel.
“I really wanted to emphasize, to epitomize, my English look,” she said. “This show was very easy.”
Singer Jessie J said: “She pushes me as an artist.”
Mulberry
Mulberry didn’t have a catwalk show this season, but that’s probably OK. They have model of the moment Cara Delevingne.
The British luxury label enlisted Delevingne to design and model a range of handbags.
Delevingne wore a simple white slip dress and went barefoot to model the bags, appearing on a swing in a ballroom transformed into a misty forest scene. She twirled with a backpack in a camouflage print and the show was over in less than five minutes.
It was a little underwhelming, even given Delevingne’s star power.
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