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ROKSANDA AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON "ARE these what your school gyms are like?" asked American socialite Lauren Santo Domingo as she left the Roksanda Illinic show venue - a Thirties Art Deco leisure centre. Santo Domingo - co-founder of Moda Operandi - was sat front row at the sh...

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ANTONIO BERARDI AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON WE'RE all au fait with premise of "smart casual" dressing, but Antonio Berardi went down the road of a formalwear-daywear hybrid this morning. Translation: glitzing up, sparkling out and adding twists, turns, frills and peplums to parkas,...

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JONATHAN SAUNDERS AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON "Joy and optimism." Jonathan Saunders had a little more to say about his new collection, but that was the top line. No surprises there—he has new financing and a huge new studio. He's managed to fillet out the fat in his organization, a...

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PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND’s creative director Massimo Nicosia continued his study into texture at the brand’s autumn/winter 2015 show this evening. The artistic backdrop of the Serpentine Sacker Gallery was fitting, given the artisanal appr...

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PHOEBE ENGLISH AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON Phoebe English staged her first formal London fashion week presentation today. Her space and her time slot were allotted to her by the BFC, and the poo-bahs there were right to throw English their support: She's a designer with tremendous ...

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MARY KATRANTZOU AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON It was a play on contradiction at Mary Katrantzou this afternoon, a fact that could have been decoded from her runway; a maze of pyramid foam in Pepto-Bismol pink, equally spiky and hard edged, as it was soft and spongy. She said she was ...

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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD RED LABEL AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON Dame Vivienne Westwood puts the drama into costume so reliably that her histrionic styling and agitprop proselytizing—this time for the Green Party—should come as a given. Also to be expected are agenda-led accessories ("Get a...

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BELSTAFF AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON There were airplanes on Dan Lywood's soundtrack for the Belstaff presentation. Amelia Earhart was a reference, and accents of blue and off-white suggested sky and clouds, but newly appointed women's creative director Delphine Ninous was insisten...

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TOGA AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON For the past few seasons, Japanese brand Toga has jammed its way into the crowded London fashion week schedule via a clever gambit: Figure out where the Topshop Unique show is happening, and then stage a presentation right around the corner. Sheer c...

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TEMPERLEY LONDON AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON The fact that Alice Temperley's show fell on the same day as the Oscars occasioned some thinking about the state of formalwear. The clothes on the Temperley runway were dressy, but they had a relaxed mien—a far cry from the trussed-up lo...

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TEMPERLEY LONDON AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON The fact that Alice Temperley's show fell on the same day as the Oscars occasioned some thinking about the state of formalwear. The clothes on the Temperley runway were dressy, but they had a relaxed mien—a far cry from the trussed-up lo...

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MATTHEW WILLIAMSON AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR LONDON Like Kim Kardashian, Picasso, and Snoop Dogg—all the greats—Matthew Williamson was born on the Libra-Scorpio cusp. Which makes him both aggressive and indecisive, right? "Oh, thanks," he spat (faux) aggressively, after presenting a dre...