London fashion week has begun! All attention is currently on the this lovely city, the big-name designers it’s attracted, and what they have to bring to the catwalk this season.
Daks Spring/Summer 2015 Collection was shocking to be sure. In the Royal Opera House, all stereotypes of what Daks fashion was, were overrun. The show was full of taffeta, silk, and even feathers. Filippo Scuffi, this year’s creative director, decided to step away from the golf/sports-inspired look and instead draw inspiration from ballets. This was seen through the flowing skirts, almost tutu-like layers of material, and the Swan Lake -esque feathers. However, the looks also included clean-cut tailored lines of pants, gowns, and tops.
Eudon Choi chose an original take on an cliche inspiration: the personal style of Georgia O’Keeffe. The Spring/Summer 2015 line used a combination of her rather masculine personal style and her feminine floral paintings. The show began and ended with bulky, oversized black jackets. The middle section brought the feminine contrast, with floral print pant suits and soft flowing dresses.
Jean-Pierre Braganza accredited his collection to a series of things, including: motorbike pieces, the fallout of Detroit and it’s automobile industry, and the film River of Fundament. The collection included a variety of pieces all staying true to a basic, mostly black and white, color scheme. The show transfer quickly from geometric patterns, to beaded embellishments, to wild patterns, to tailored a-symmetric lines. The greatest part about the show was probably the balance between the modern and sexy, and the conservative and classy.
You can almost feel the 60’s at the venue of the Felder Felder show. Not only the outfits, but also the music that became the background for the show, was a combination of Arthur Baker, Janis Joplin, the Stones, and the Beatles. These two Felder twins created something show-stopping with metallics, cowboy boots, mini skirts, bell-bottom sleeves, fringed leather jackets, and high-necked crop-tops. The show was sexy, but in a completely youthful, fun, and peace-and-love kind of way. This was an important shout for peace for the designers, in a time where there is so much conflict going on in the world.
Instead of classic 60’s, the Christopher Raeburn show had techno music playing in the background. In order to capture some springtime into the collection, Raeburn used light silk organza on the pieces. There was an array of solid navy, whites, and grays, as well as bold geometric patterns and some more artsy intricate patterns. Bulky jacket were paired with bermuda length shorts or sheer mini skirts, and a few almost tee-shirt style dresses, but one of the highlights included a bubble-gum pink parachute style dress.
