Ready for more seduction after Nicole Farhi and Antonio Berardi, we headed to Christopher Kane, where the good girl turned bad was as obvious as the roaring of a motor bike.
Christopher Kane
Kane took black leather and embroidered it with flowers, applied lace, gems and studs and turned it into mini dresses, coats and pencil skirts.
Outfits were finished with sweet Mary-Jane shoes that continued and turned into cut out boots, extending up the models’ long legs. And that’s when we fell for the leader of the pack…
Paul Smith
Next, it was time to channel the quintessential English countryside at Paul Smith.
We are after all in England. A country where Upper Class English ladies do fence and do horse ride and do throw garden parties in their countryside estates – so it really is just as well that Paul Smith has taken care to create a wardrobe that is perfectly suited to their daily activities. From the riding jackets with equestrian printed lining to the yellow jackets with matching corsets and the sweet garden dresses.
But it was not just this aristocratic lady that Smith had in mind when he created his tailor maid collection. He was also thinking about ‘the naughty daughter, who likes to sneak off to London and go to Rock concerts”. Before sneaking off, she will raid her mother’s wardrobe and borrow the long coats, slim line dresses and retro nightwear that she will apply leather belts to and punk up, making the look her quirky own.
And when the ‘naughty debutant’ returns to the countryside, she has delicious Paul Smith Fall 2010 a-line dresses in poppy and lavender (it is very chic to match the name of the colour of your dress to your own name you see) to wear with sweet cropped cardigans.
In this countryside frame of mind, our day finished at Pringle, where we got a Scottish aristocratic feel.
Whilst we were a little confused to see Janet Jackson and Courtney Love in the front row, we figured that maybe they are both planning a trip to the highlands and want the perfect wardrobe filled with kilts, cashmere and leather.
In a fittingly Scottish colour palette of green, yellow, red and black, there were velvet trousers, kilted skirts and blazers. Perfect for the black tie dinner in the Castle, after a day of shooting, the elegant strapless evening gowns made of suiting fabric, with leather side buckles, were a glamorous end to the collection.
Image credits: Snapper Media & Style.com
