Sunday 19 September 2010

Dear Fashion, we love you, so take us by storm! Love, London...

London Fashion Week has ARRIVED!!! I know everybody is truly excited!! One of my favourite things about London is everyone worth their fashionista status knows how to pull off a boho-chic, hippie, slightly dishevelled ensemble, with bedhead hair, a punk rock attitude and a ever so slight hangover for 7 days, getting by on not much else than coffee, lots of cigarettes, drinking free bub and booze at after parties, and getting some sortof cheese covered, bulky form of carbohydrate to line aching and queasy stomachs until the next day,rushing out the door with wet wipes, batiste dry shampoo and slept in eyeliner wearing a leather jacket with tassles, hair in a swept up ponytail or messy curls.
Highlights of LFW so far include the Topshop Unique, Caroline Charles, Fearne Cotton for Very, Hannah Marshall, and Henry Holland, which have included the likes of Lily Allen, Keisha Buchanan, Agyness Deyn, Alexa Chung and Jaime Winstone also being seated front row.
One of my absolute favourite fashion writers is Hilary Alexander who covers Fashion for The Telegraph, and amongst attending her usual creme de la creme of the ultimate london fashion shows, she also managed to attend Twenty8Twelve, Sienna Miller's label designed with older sister, Vogue blogger and Central Saint Martins alumni Savannah.
The collection was a saccharine mix of Sienna's boho-chic, hippy style which meets Savannah's laid back, eclectic, eco-conscious spirit. The clothes were inspired by Joni Mitchell's album 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' and told the story of a girl on a road trip to Thailand, Mexico and Nevada in the 1950s.
Shorts, waistcoats and dresses in fringed suede, denim and floral cotton were mixed with body conscious slinks. loose knits and t-shirts came with distressed denim and ruched miniskirts.
Excited to see what comes next!