London Fashion Week: It has history
London Fashion week found a new home this season at Somerset House. Gathered to help launch the event were, from left, model Erin O;Connor, the Fashion Council’s Caroline Rush, Christopher Kane, Erdem, Lauren Joseph, Marios Schwab and the Fashion Councils Simon Ward. (Carl de Souza / AFP / Getty Images)
This season, London Fashion Week pulled out all the stops, celebrating its 25th anniversary with six days of runway shows that ended Wednesday. They included the prodigal returns of several big British brands (Burberry and Pringle of Scotland, which had been showing in Milan, and Matthew Williamson and Jonathan Saunders, who had been showing in New York, among them).
Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue, attended the Pringle of Scotland spring-summer 2010 show at the Saatchi Gallery on Sept. 21, 2009. (Claire R Greenway / Getty Images for Pringle of Scoland)
Giles Deacon’s outsized chunky knit sweaters and mufflers from autumn 2007 set the stage for the knitwear renaissance we’re still seeing. (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)
Kane helped usher in the current craze for sequins with his autumn 2008 collection covered in coin-sized sequins (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
What can you say about Gareth Pugh, who in has regularly presented pieces like this 2007 offering? London, once dismissed for producing cartoonish one-offs of no interest to anyone but club kids, has grown up, with designers presenting and delivering commercial, wearable clothes. (Sang Tan / Associated Press)