What to expect at the shows:
With New York Fashion Week ending yesterday and London beginning today, fashion month is officially in full swing and there’s a lot to look forward to over the next five days.
Preen returns to the show schedule after six successful years showing in New York and to celebrate the opening of its first European store, Rag & Bone will make its London Fashion Week debut. The collections are set to be as strong as ever too:
■ Expect Mayan and Aztec aesthetics and organic hand woven textiles at Fyodor Golan (Lady Gaga’s a fan) and traditional modernism at Sass & Bide.
■ Daks creative director Sheila McKain-Waid says she was “inspired by abstract expressionist painters such as Robert Motherwell” and has also reworked the brand’s signature trench and parka jacket.
■ Issa London designer Daniella Helayel, a favourite among the Middletons, will present a collection with “prints inspired by the Garden of Eden and Noah’s Ark” on “vibrant underwater corals.”
■ David Koma has developed the “fresh, sharp and graphic” aesthetic that he’s become known for.