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50 Favorite Looks: London Fashion Week Spring 2010

coutorture — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:11:41 PDT

Standout runway moments from the 25th anniversary of London Fashion Week-Peter Pilotto's digital prints, Pringle of Scotland's summer knits, and the return of Burberry Prorsum and Jonathan Saunders.

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London Fashion Week: Basso & Brooke Spring 2010

coutorture — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:53:26 PDT

London 09/22/09. WireImage

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London Fashion Week: Burberry Prorsum Spring 2010

coutorture — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:14:01 PDT

London 09/22/09. Getty Images

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Burberry Returns to Home Turf for Spring 2010

fashionologie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:21:07 PDT

>> Spring 2010 brings a number of firsts for Burberry: the first time Christopher Bailey has shown under the label in London instead of Milan and the first time the show was streamed live on the Internet - the video can be seen here. It was a big bash for the likes of London - a guest list of 1,500 and a tent venue erected on the grounds of the Chelsea College of Art & Design - bringing front row faces like Gwyneth Paltrow, Victoria Beckham, Mary-Kate Olsen, brand face Emma Watson, plus Mario Testino, Jacquetta Wheeler, Bruce Weber, and Agyness Deyn.

When the show was ready to start this evening, the venue - with Burberry check-embossed walls - went dark, and the Burberry logo lit up the runway until the stream of models, wearing pale-colored or metallic knotted, draped, and twisted variations on the classic trench and miniskirt, commenced. A few furs were even thrown in, despite the Spring season. At the end, in celebration of the quintessential British brand's return to home turf, a rain of silver confetti streamed down.

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London Fashion Week: Peter Pilotto Spring 2010

coutorture — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:15:59 PDT

New York 09/22/09 Getty

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Runway Report: Burberry Prorsum Spring 2010

coutorture — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:32:41 PDT

Celebrating new London headquarters and the 25th anniversary of London Fashion Week, Christopher Bailey brought Burberry back home from the runways in Milan where he had been showing the Prorsum collection for the past eight years.

As Mario Testino put it, there was a full-on red carpet outside the white Burberry tent in London today, appropriate for the star-studded front row rolling in for the fashion show including Gwyneth Paltrow and Liv Tyler-seen holding hands over Emma Watson-Victoria Beckham, Mary Kate Olsen, Freida Pinto and Dev Patel, Jacquetta Wheeler, Agyness Deyn, Anna Wintour, and Carine Roitfeld.

According to Bailey spring 2010 is the season of the belt at Burberry, and that meant cinched waists on a pastel palette of dresses and skirts-think lavender, pale pink and mint green-all twisted, pleated and draped. Bailey transformed traditional Burberry pieces into new and unexpected shapes with texture, adding a fresh sculptural quality to his collection. Even the classic beige trench received an update for spring-looking ultra modern with gathered puffed-up shoulders, ruched sleeves, and a knotted hem in back.

As for the A-list crowd in attendance, they all headed straight to that new Burberry building for an after party where we hear computers have been set up for easy tweeting. Allow Style.com's Fashion Feed to help you be there in spirit.

fashionologie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:21:42 PDT

>> Julia, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld Relationship Updates -Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Swedish model Robert Konjic, who have been seeing each other since earlier this year, have been spotted all around London Fashion Week - the Temperley London and Showstudio parties yesterday and the Burberry show and afterparty today, where they were seen holding hands. Meanwhile, there's been speculation about her brother Vladimir's relationship with Lily Donaldson: he was photographed kissing Giovanna Battaglia last week at his New York Fashion Week exhibition, even though Lily was also an attendee, and he and Giovanna have been snapped together frequently recently. [Vogue UK Twitter, Paper]

A Softer Side of Jonathan Saunders for Spring 2010

fashionologie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:56:21 PDT

>> Pastel seems to be the palette of choice for Spring 2010 in London, and London returner Jonathan Saunders is no exception. With the help of Katie Grand's styling know-how, plus Christian Louboutin gladiators that had spectators in a tizzy, Saunders's models worked the runway in sheer flouncy pink and lavender pieces and rope-trimmed dresses. To break the mold, highlighter yellow also appeared in the large, sparse, and uncomfortably hot room Saunders showed in.

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Peter Pilotto Earns Raves for Spring 2010 Signature Watercolor Prints

fashionologie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:27:28 PDT

>> In the space behind a record store in London this morning, Anna Wintour stopped by for a preview, and Peter Pilotto and design partner Christopher De Vos sent out their trademark watercolor prints atop sculptured and draped minidresses. The collection inspired quite the impulse gushing from Another Magazine ("Peter Pilotto - show of the week so far."), Vogue UK ("The Pilotto show has been one of our FAVOURITE shows yet") and Los Angeles Times's Booth Moore ("Peter Pilotto is next big thing out of London."). Wintour's bouncers were so energized by the show, they apparently almost knocked Suzy Menkes over as they rushed Anna out.

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fashionologie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:42:13 PDT

>> Burberry Streaming Spring 2010 Show Live Shortly -If you don't happen to be milling around a tent in London right now waiting for the Burberry Spring 2010 show to start, you can watch instead from the comfort of your own home: the brand is streaming the show live very shortly (6:30 PM London time). Guests are already beginning to take their seats . . . [Burberry Live]