from London with love| Spring 2012

London fashion week... I've always had mixed feelings about fashion week in London, maybe because up until very recently, there really wasn't much to see from the shows there. I once read that editors treat this fashion week as a casual stop-over while they recover from New York and rest up for the Milan and Paris shows and for me, even as a non-show attendee, just following 1/3 of the New York shows for the past week on style.com has been exhausting, hence my lack of posts and updates on London fashion week. But with the pop up of fresh talent in recent years, London is definitely becoming more exciting. Here are some of my favourite looks from this season, let's start with:

Burberry Prorsum 

well this collection was rather confusing. I thought this was the Spring and Summer show yet all I'm seeing are heavy skirts, cape jackets and coats (and even a fur collar on Abbey Lee)! dear Christopher Bailey, shouldn't you be showing these in another 6 months time? despite this seasonal confusion, many of the pieces in this collection carries on the theme of tribal prints already seen in New York last week, the 1940s style skirts and classic trench coats will also be sure to grace many editorials to come. 

Christopher Kane 

oh Christopher Kane, I'm still in love with the neon lace dresses from your last Spring collection and here you are, showing us yet another series of stunning pieces, albeit with a colour palette in stark contrast to the last Spring show. we almost had another near-white collection here, if it wasn't for the sprinkles of floral prints in blue, multi and egg yolk. according to Tim Blank's review, Kane took inspiration for this collection from "the girls you hate at school...hanging out together, bullying boys as much as other girls". I'm sorry but what?! that source of inspiration just confuses me even more than Burberry's parkas in a Spring show. I resign to the possibility that I may never understand some creative minds, nonetheless, I am still in love with your creations Christopher Kane. p.s: sandals? 

More show reviews to come in the next post. Until then, x 

update: London Fashion Week is having a model crisis with girls being pulled out of shows in the last minute and claims of London designers being bullied by big agencies and designers in New York and Milan =O you can read about it here on telegraph.co.uk. 

adorable Alice

I'm deviating from normal fashion posts today with a look at the style of my little cousin Alice. She's only 5 this year and one of the most stylish kids I know. I met her two days after she was born and I've been photographing her since then (it got progressively hard to take photos of her after she learnt how to walk and run around). Nowadays she picks out her own clothes to wear, and has mastered the art of colour matching since she was three years-old! Here she is in a little puffy Chinese style jacket, pink dress, coloured tights, and a pink hat that makes her look like a little pink elf. Such a cute outfit! x

Marchesa Spring 2012

 

ah Marchesa, only you can make me click through every single photo of the entire collection on style.com, heart racing, as each breathtaking, ethereal dress is loaded onto my screen <3

this season, Marchesa has opted for a catwalk show  rather than the normal stand-still fanfare. starring runway verterans Karen Elson, Karolina Kurkova and Karlie Kloss  (they sure like their K's!), even through the internet and still images on my 15-inch Dell screen, the show is still the most beautiful I've seen yet in this NYFW. to complete this post dedicated to my Marchesa love affair, here are some of the looks from the Resort 2012 collection. aren't they gorgeous?! x

Betsey Johnson Spring 2012

continuing on the Burlesque craze this year, Betsey Johnson's new collection attempts to strike a balance between being provocative and sexy and just plain under-clothed. What do you think my dear readers, has she got the balance right? x 

Rachel Zoe Spring 2012

the 3rd collection for stylist-turned-designer Rachel Zoe, she has once agained delivered a beautiful and wearable collection in signature RZ styles. that silver scallop prin dress (first picture) is just to die for <3 

Thakoon Spring 2012

 

This is one of those collections where the videos do the fabrics more justice than still photography (full show click here). I don’t know why but I felt nauseous clicking through Thakoon’s new collection, maybe it was the spray painted hair colours, or maybe it was the  Cowboy hats, Mozart hairstyle and Indian prints all thrown together from one outfit to the next; whatever the reason, this is not one of my favourite collections from Thakoon but nonetheless, it is still beautiful. And I must say, those shoes are cute! x