Catwalk Report: Holly Fulton A/W 13

Holly Fulton's muse for the A/W 13 collection is inspired by guitar wielding, 70's art school rockers and seductive temptresses like Beatrice Dallas and a flame haired Poison Ivy. 

Slicing her signature geometric motifs across new shapes for the season, key pieces include collaged leather biker jackets worn slung over slim fit shirts and quilted leather skirts. Voluminous photocopy skirts take a different tact, featuring big cats, angry bears and venemous snakes. Other prints, including lipsticks like bullets feature on dungaree dresses and boyfriend shirts, whilst birds and lilies are screened behind a prison fence and an inky scrawl text. 

Key colours are ruby red across mohair fabrics and jet black across leathers and embossed pony skin, with key details include sequinned feathers and jewellery combining petrified wood, blue agate encrusted tops and natural pearls. 

Holly Fulton will next be on show at the London Showrooms in Paris at Le Loft from the 28th Feb - 7th March.

London Fashion Week: Day 2 Highlights

Day Two London fashion Week highlights included sitting front row at Daks before enjoying the Christopher Raeburn (pictures on instagram) salon show followed by the Jasper Conran catwalk. I finished up my day by exploring the exhibition at Somerset House, snapping some of the gorgeous collections, checking out the NEWGEN area, complete with pin badge machines, and finally heading to the Scandinavian showcase which housed a great array of Swedish and Danish designers.

Once again I got Sophie from La Fashion Folie to street style snap me. In case you were wondering everything is from Zara apart from the jacket which is Topshop - I am a high street girl after all! 

Accessory Alert: The Viktor & Rolf Bombette Bag

Viktor & Rolf is introducing the Bombette bag - the Maison’s new IT bag collection for the next season. The bag will be officially launched in late Spring but I'm allowed to give you a sneak peek of the new look now.

The Bombette range spans four different sizes - shaped in clutch, petite briefcase, tote and classic handbag - featuring the finest leathers including faux crock-quilting . Offered in black, Bordeaux, dark brown, red and forest green (I pretty much want one in every colour) all variations feature metal handle hardware with miniature Flowerbomb details - a signature of the brand in line with its perfume range.

Prices will range from 1,140 to 1,500 Euros and will be available from April onwards.

This Little Girl Loves: Wood Wood S/S 13

This season's Wood Wood collection is inspired by the "Summer of Love", that took place first in 1967’s San Francisco – centre of the Hippie movement, and the later “Second Summer of Love” in Great Britain around 1988-89, where rave culture and Acid House exploded. The collection pulls in elements from the two historic movements and is guided into modernity with a combination of tailoring and street inspired items as well as sports references. 

Subtle colourways like puce and brown tones provide the base, along with classic navy, antique whites, army colours and grey melanges. This toned down base is brought into life by blues and yellows and the unique prints: a distorted animal pattern, electric coloured floral's and an ethnic bead print.

Fabrics include two-toned suiting wools, crinkled nylon in block panels, printed denim, track suit jersey and printed transparent silk organza. Working with iconic styles such as trench coats, bomber jackets, wind-breakers and track-tops on both the men’s and the women’s lines all helps to emphasise the unisex look which is more apparent than ever this season.

All images from the Wood Wood S/S 13 look book. 

Catwalk Report: Jean Pierre Braganza

This season, Jean Pierre Braganza is inspired by geometry, tribes, sci-fi and fantasy, combining samurai silhouettes with utilitarian colour block paneling. 

Layers of nighttime colours like teal and black are punctured by pure white, peach and prints of intricate dragon scales forming a crest, a fantasy winterscape and an arrangement of circles and lines forming perfect geometry - a pattern in which every known shape appears. The print is also incorporated into luxe silk jacquard, in petrol blue and a black with silver weave, whilst silk and chiffons compliment the heavier winter fabrics like velvet boucle and laser-engraved white leather. 


Key pieces include a sculpted, belted wool and leather waistcoat, floor length chiffon print skirts, shirt dresses and an obi-belted jumpsuit with half skirt. Once again accessories label Bracher Emden have collaborated to create belts and clutch bags, hand crafted from Italian lambs leather. 

London Fashion Week: DAKS in depth

British heritage label DAKS kicked off the second day of London Fashion Week with a catwalk set in the courtyard show space at Somerset House. 

The collection was inspired by Charlotte Rampling's sophisticated and sometimes androgynous style with plenty of menswear references, and celebrated the art of the pattern cutter through plays on traditional shapes, proportions, and through folding, layering and draping. 

Heathered flannel, felted wool, mohair and suede fabrics were all in focus alongside some subtle metallic touches, a beautiful floral print, and of course the signature house check. The color palette meanwhile ran from grey to olive green, claret red, navy blue, rust tones and plenty of black, all inspired by the work of graphic designer Ashley Havinden. Accessories combned rigid angles with curved seams in wood, leather, suede, rubber and metal to create a contrast in texture.