Not sure why, but I have a hard time drumming up excitement for London Fashion Week. Must just be bad residual memories of covering it in years past during frigid February, with all the expensive taxis, expensive (and bad) food, snotty publicists, impossible locations, predictable parties. Fashion-wise, there are some redemptive designers: Richard Nicoll, Christopher Kane, Louise Goldin. What can I say…I like super tailored, structured designs. Sean Young’s character Rachael in Blade Runner will always be a muse in the morning.
l-r: Richard Nicoll, Christopher Kane, Louise Goldin, f/w 2009, photos via style.com
I’ll always have a place in my heart for Paul Smith, though his is a look that can be created by styling yourself with various combinations of tweeds, stripes and florals.
Paul Smith f/w 2009, photos via style.com
Apparently an Italian named Kinder Aggugini is getting all the buzz from editors this season, but in his Fall 2009 collection he appears to be doing what nearly every London designer loves to do at some point (or at every point), which is reinvent London street fashion in a more upmarket way. They just need something new to hang on to, now that Giles Deacon is stale and Gareth Pugh shipped out to Paris.
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