For all the talented young designers making their names in London, the
fashion industry turns to Burberry each season for glitz and glamour — and
the luxury label did not disappoint with its show
Monday.
“I loved it. There’s so many things I wanted to wear,” US actress Maggie
Gyllenhaal told creative director and chief executive Christopher Bailey as
she worked her way through a crush of press and models backstage. British
singer Paloma Faith added: “It was a really amazing show, it’s beautiful.”
Burberry’s top-end Prorsum line is always a highlight of London Fashion
Week, for the quality of clothes, the A-list crowd it draws and the sense
of theatre. Installed at the front of the catwalk, British
singer-songwriter Clare Maguire and her band provided a live soundtrack,
while the show ended, as in previous years, with a shower of shimmering
confetti.
This season the production staff joined in with the finale, dancing and
singing on the sidelines as the models made their last journey down the
catwalk. There were tasselled Burberry trench coats and ponchos, and
dresses short and long with embroidered bodices and sheer skirts, worn with
suede clutches and suede patchwork over-the-knee stiletto boots.
Throughout the collection Bailey used suede as well as quilting, sheer lace
and circular mirrors sewn on the fabric, which was decorated with floral,
paisley and patchwork prints, some of which resembled tapestries. “I wanted
this whole patchwork of different textures, colours, prints, patterns and
really this celebration of all these skills,” Bailey told reporters after
the show.
“I wanted it to feel more relaxed, more effortless. “We’re living in this
incredibly fast world, which I love, but it’s also nice sometimes to pause
and see things that are really made by hand.” (AFP)
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