First off, sorry for the late post - I’ve been all over the country for the last couple of weeks and when I’ve had any free Internet time, I’ve been doing dissertation work ready for my first deadline on Friday! Anyway, enough of that, lets talk about Fashion Week! It’s been one hell of a ride for London in the last week, accommodating fashionistas from all over the globe, ready to gather at Somerset House for the mouth watering designer collections awaiting our gaze for SS14. But when the lights go dim at the end of the week, Somerset House is revamped and set up yet again for London Fashion Weekend – an open event for the public combining designer discount shopping, runway shows for trend and designer markets and rubbing shoulders with some big names in the fashion industry, which is where this post comes in.
Now I’ve been to quite a few fashion events in my time, both public and closed, but very few public events come close to LFWend. Arriving on Thursday morning for the early opening, I was treated to an art gallery style exhibition of everything from brightly coloured fur and soft bespoke leather woven jackets to House of Harlow's suede sunglasses and the most AMAZING silk prints from Charlotte Taylor. Seriously though, have you seen that banjo print skirt? I had to be pried away from the room! Also, Susie from Style Bubble had been involved in setting the show up by marking her favourite pieces so it was really interesting to go round and she what she would pick. Taking a break from shopping, We were taken in to watch the trend runway show, showcasing A/W 2013 trends that are about to take over the high street. Predicted to take winter by a cold storm were soft pink wool blend coats and jumpers, nature-bound flora, fauna and any other form of biota you can wrangle into a nice warm scarf, gothic Victoriana laced dresses and enough shaped up boxy prints to make M.C. Escher jealous. And if for some reason that wasn’t enough, there are talks on-going throughout the day from the industry’s finest, keeping you up to speed on what it’s like behind the pages of some of the worlds best selling fashion magazines or how the world of fashion shines through from a political standpoint.
By the end of the day, I really didn’t want to leave and even though I’ll be back in February, I kinda wish fashion week was more often! But if you want a really good designer shopping day out with some good fashion talks and a pretty inspiring runway show thrown in, I highly recommend you to attend. What could be better than high discounts and a day of endless style! Did you attend this years LFWend or will you be attending AW14?
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