Your London Fashion Week Coverage
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If there is something that London has never been afraid to do it’s fashion. The city itself takes risks and breaks boundaries in ways that nowhere else in the world does. From February 15th – 19th London show cased 2019’s Fall and Winter ready-to-wear collections from some of the world’s best British and international designers. And with eye catching runway shows comes eye catching street style. Here’s your Strike Magazine London Fashion Week Coverage.
Street Style
Street style originated through Britain’s fashion culture as an alternative approach to your typically put together outfit. On any day of the week in this crazy metropolis the most unique street style can be found. Come fashion week the style on the streets is multiplied by a thousand. Thigh high boots, baggy snake skin pants and slick trench coats, flowy summer pants, thick leather winter coats and trainers. There’s classic cream head to toe, edgy vinyl head to toe and zebra everywhere. The streets of London don’t hold an ounce of judgement and it shows in the way people express themselves.
Burberry
At the height of the Fashion Week was Burberry’s Fall Winter show, led by Creative Director Riccardo Tisci. The Italian designer graduated from London’s Central Saint Martins. He was previously the creative director for French couture powerhouse Givenchy and now he is reinventing Burberry. His second ever collection with Burberry took place at the iconic British museum the Tate Modern. The 106-look collection was shown over two separate runways. Half of the collection was placed in a deep cedar wooden hall reminiscent of Burberry’s true aesthetic. The second half was shown in a brutalist hall with steel pipes that caged in the audience. The collection was all about contrast. In the classic wooden hall, the looks were surprisingly less traditional. The models wore remastered tennis dresses paired with chunky bedazzled rubber boots as grime (British rap) bumped over the speakers. Cut to the brutalist hall where kids in tracksuits were climbing around the audience on metal pipes as models glided down the runway wearing classic dresses. The women could be found in cream trenches and leather point toe pumps and the men in sharply constructed black suits; oozing luxury. Together and separate, the Fall Winter collection shows how the rebels and conservatives of Britain can co-exist.
Charlotte Knowles
Fashion East, known for hosting and supporting new designers in Fashion Week shows, has supplied us with yet another stunning collection. Charlotte Knowles and her partner Alexandre Arsenault held their last show under Fashion East before launching their line into independence and it definitely left a mark. The London based designers offer an edgy and futuristic approach to lingerie in their FW 2019 collection. Inspired by lingerie that you would want to wear out, their sexy structuralist style is one to keep your eye on. The designers somehow pulled off mixing of drastic patterns and synching with unconventional outerwear. The models walked the runway with disheveled hair and minimal makeup carrying themselves and the clothing down the runway in the most imperfectly perfect way. Glide through yourself.
House of Holland
House of Holland’s new collection, designed by Henry Holland, was a political skeptical. With Brexit in the works and gaining full momentum, the designer wanted to capture London for what it is now before it all changes. While staying true to the brand’s very British style, the collection was named Global Citizen and shined a light on London’s beauty as a global community. Some sort of British grunge is what meets the eye but when you look closer a lot more can be seen. “As a Londoner you feel like a global Citizen. You hear eight languages before you reach the office, which is an amazing thing. If that was to change because of something like Brexit, then that would have a really devastating effect. The inspiration in London is second to none and it comes from a global community.” Said Holland to Vogue backstage. Metal spurs on the boots and Cambodian prints on the dresses allude to the foreign influence that the big city is so rightfully known for. With the deadline of Brexit looming, at least we can always count on fashion to bring in influence from all over the world.
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Writer: Alessandra Cruz
Editor: Sophie Li
Graphic Designer: Sophie Li
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