Basso & Brooke, with thier Ready To Wear collection seem to be behaving like artists with a palette filled with the colours of the rainbow and all the different combinations they can conjure, wow, what a splash of colour they can single handedly bring on summer early with this mix of colours, but we love them for this, this a seductive collection but with a playful edge executed with a precision that does not show how difficult it truly is to combine these colours in an outfit that looks so simple, its not everybody’s cup of tea but its love them or hate them you will have to notice them. This was one of the most interesting shows of the London Fashion Week 2009.
The BBC has recruited a team of 10 young people to create a collection that will be shown at London Fashion Week (LFW).
The BBC Your Label project will give the young people, aged between 15 and 22, funding to develop their first fashion collection. Their progress will be filmed for the BBC’s website and for the BBC2 on demand channel.
The collection will show on the catwalk at the next LFW, which runs from September 18-23 at Somerset House in central London. There will also be a diffusion line of T-shirts sold, with sales going to the BBC’s Children In Need charity.
The young team is being mentored by experienced commercial designers.
There will be separate collections for men and women, both taking the same direction and showing under the WO/MAN label. Both are influenced by vintage clothing and extreme tailoring with a youthful edge.
Leading British celebrity designer Amanda Wakeley is set to relaunch her label in one of the highlights of this year’s autumn London Fashion Week.
Ruth Bloomfield
16.07.09
Leading British celebrity designer Amanda Wakeley is set to relaunch her label in one of the highlights of this year’s autumn London Fashion Week.
Ms Wakeley, pictured, reclaimed control of her eponymous brand in April after it was sold by her former husband and business partner Neil Gillon. In April she secured a £1million deal to buy back the label, saving more than 50 jobs in the process.
Wakeley, winner of three British Fashion Awards, launched her career at London Fashion Week in 1990 and became the go-to designer for royals and Hollywood actresses, such as Demi Moore and Scarlett Johansson. Wakeley’s return will be one of the big talking points.
She is among a record number of designers -Matthew Williamson, Burberry Prorsum, Pringle of Scotland and Clements Ribeiro – returning after absences. She will relaunch her brand with a catwalk show on 22 September at Somerset House, the event’s new home after many years in Chelsea.
This year’s Fashion Week marks its 25th anniversary and is set to be the biggest yet, with more than 50 catwalk shows over six days, and at least 20 “presentations” in which designers explore unusual ways of displaying spring/summer 2010 collections.
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