emma watson arrives at the burbery fashion showI know, I know... I'm going a little bit london fashion week crazy. But it's just a veritable gold mine of pictures, and i want to share them all with you! One of the most exciting things about London Fashion week has been the return of Burberry to London after 8 year in celebration of London Fashion Week's 25th year anniversary. Burberry, despite its old school reputation, has proved that Christopher Bailey not only has a talent for design but also a real understanding of the online media. He invited several bloggers to attend the show, such as stevie from dischoteque confusion, but also streamed the show live online for everyone to watch in real time. Which mean sometime during the early hours of the morning for me, but as soon as I got it up was the first thing I watched.
And let me tell you, Christopher Bailey is a bloody genius.
Beautiful sculptural pieces in those dried out, pastelly colours that Bailey does so well (dusty lilacs, steely greys, almost poetic blues). Everything cinched in by roll-tied belts. Mega-draping, reminiscent of the SS08 collection, twisting and turning of jersey fabrics, tucking, darting up the knees of dresses. The draping was the best thing about the collection actually, Bailey had taken lightweight jersey and cotton and twisted it beyond belief, skirts were overlayed with tucked and manipulated draped fabric pannels. Coat dresses that update the classic trench coat into the modern girl's wardrobe. Sleeveless coat dresses with draping and ruffling along the bottom, surely next season's stand out 'must have' piece. Glittery, sparkly, resplendent pieces that shone with an effervescence.
There were a few bold shoulders but they were whimsical rather than predatory. There was little 1980s to be found in this collection. What was to be found was this organic beauty - all that tucked in drapery was like the natural fall of fabric or rushing waves upon the sand. The ruffles on the sleeves of shirt were like shells or the petals of flowers. The jewelled pieces seemed almost naturally so, like how some landscapes seem just to sparkle with life. And the colours, that very Burberry mix of rich camels (which is now back in fashion again!), pastels and dusty shades was kind of like the view over a beach at dusk where everything takes on a new colour as the sun sets and day, with all its carefree effervescence slithers into sensuous night. There's something very natural about his design, none of the ruffles, the twists, the elaborate pouffs and whiffs seem fake or contrived. It's as if the fabric formed that way all on its own, without any outside influence at all.
The thing I love about Bailey at Burberry is as a designer he has such a clear vision of the girl who wears his clothes, and even though his collections are different every season they never fail to supply beautiful clothes for this girl. She's any girl who likes to mix polished elegance with cutesy details like sandals and socks and pastel colours. She's any girl who likes to top off her party frock with a classic belted trench coat. She's any girl who's to be found mucking about at a country estate in hunter wellies and a drapey mini dress. She's exactly what i try to capture in my clothing every day, that perfect mixture of 'right now' trendiness with who-gives-a-fuck styling and those classic pieces you find women's magazines saying every girl must have in her wardrobe. All whilst conveying the auro of not trying, of course.
Yeah, so he's done it before. But, you know, if it ain't broke... I think that Bailey is like Phoebe Philo at Chloe circa 2004/5, he captures the wants and desires of girls (women?) like no other designer. They even have a very similar aesthetic, back then all the girls were running around in babydoll dresses, chunky platform heels and a swinging coat. Today the girls are in matronly shift dresses hacked off mid thigh with the clunkiest ankle boots i've ever seen and a trench coat. It's that same kind of muddled up romance and classiness.
Muddled up, but just way i like it!
X
And let me tell you, Christopher Bailey is a bloody genius.
Beautiful sculptural pieces in those dried out, pastelly colours that Bailey does so well (dusty lilacs, steely greys, almost poetic blues). Everything cinched in by roll-tied belts. Mega-draping, reminiscent of the SS08 collection, twisting and turning of jersey fabrics, tucking, darting up the knees of dresses. The draping was the best thing about the collection actually, Bailey had taken lightweight jersey and cotton and twisted it beyond belief, skirts were overlayed with tucked and manipulated draped fabric pannels. Coat dresses that update the classic trench coat into the modern girl's wardrobe. Sleeveless coat dresses with draping and ruffling along the bottom, surely next season's stand out 'must have' piece. Glittery, sparkly, resplendent pieces that shone with an effervescence.
There were a few bold shoulders but they were whimsical rather than predatory. There was little 1980s to be found in this collection. What was to be found was this organic beauty - all that tucked in drapery was like the natural fall of fabric or rushing waves upon the sand. The ruffles on the sleeves of shirt were like shells or the petals of flowers. The jewelled pieces seemed almost naturally so, like how some landscapes seem just to sparkle with life. And the colours, that very Burberry mix of rich camels (which is now back in fashion again!), pastels and dusty shades was kind of like the view over a beach at dusk where everything takes on a new colour as the sun sets and day, with all its carefree effervescence slithers into sensuous night. There's something very natural about his design, none of the ruffles, the twists, the elaborate pouffs and whiffs seem fake or contrived. It's as if the fabric formed that way all on its own, without any outside influence at all.
The thing I love about Bailey at Burberry is as a designer he has such a clear vision of the girl who wears his clothes, and even though his collections are different every season they never fail to supply beautiful clothes for this girl. She's any girl who likes to mix polished elegance with cutesy details like sandals and socks and pastel colours. She's any girl who likes to top off her party frock with a classic belted trench coat. She's any girl who's to be found mucking about at a country estate in hunter wellies and a drapey mini dress. She's exactly what i try to capture in my clothing every day, that perfect mixture of 'right now' trendiness with who-gives-a-fuck styling and those classic pieces you find women's magazines saying every girl must have in her wardrobe. All whilst conveying the auro of not trying, of course.
Yeah, so he's done it before. But, you know, if it ain't broke... I think that Bailey is like Phoebe Philo at Chloe circa 2004/5, he captures the wants and desires of girls (women?) like no other designer. They even have a very similar aesthetic, back then all the girls were running around in babydoll dresses, chunky platform heels and a swinging coat. Today the girls are in matronly shift dresses hacked off mid thigh with the clunkiest ankle boots i've ever seen and a trench coat. It's that same kind of muddled up romance and classiness.
Muddled up, but just way i like it!
X
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