London Fashion Week has come to a close so we're breaking down the highlights; from Burberry's performance to Paria Farzaneh's apocalyptic countryside show
With the British government limiting gatherings to six people in public just days before London Fashion Week, most brands opted to go digital with fashion short films and panels with the exception of a few. Our correspondent Declan Chan found himself sequestered in a friend's home with some fellow influencers to review some shows for the British Fashion Council on some days and then headed off to a far flung show on another. Thankfully, the London Fashion Week website also aggregated all the digital shows, becoming a one-stop destination (complete with a countdown clock for upcoming presentations), making things a little more digestible for audiences.
It was certainly an odd start to the fashion season to say the least. What we've seen so far, including the few presentations in New York, is designers taking either a half is glass full or half empty approach—some opt for a profusion of colour and dainty prints, encouraging audiences to dream of brighter days ahead, others go dark with haunting spectacles reflecting the difficult times we live in.
Here we breakdown the highlights of the week.
A Hong Kong Star at Burberry
One of the biggest brands to show during London is of course Riccardo Tisci's Burberry. This time, it was set in an ominous forest sans audience as models weaved between the trees first in trenches spliced with denim, a flurry of surreal graphic prints, and then a series of crystal-lined leggings and tops. A performance created by artist Anne Imhof, while Eliza Douglas sang in the background completed the haunting tone of the show. We loved seeing Hong Kong's rising model Eliza Rutson (daughter of Sarah Rutson) make her debut for the British house. "It was amazing to be a part of such a creative performance and be included in [Tisci's] vision," she tells us exclusively.