London Fashion Week: The 5 newest things that came out of the Fall 2013 shows
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If there’s one thing you can count on London Fashion Week for, it’s newness. While the other three headlining fashion week cities (they would be New York, Milan and Paris, if you needed a refresher) are largely responsible for creating the viable trends of any given season, London is known as the breeding ground for new talent, new technologies and new wild ideas that are sure to become trends way into the future. The Fall 2013 show season was no different, as the various London Fashion Week shows showed all sorts of new things for us to ogle over, question and get into. Here we give you 5 of the newest and most interesting developments out of London Fashion Week for Fall 2013.
The new print Like Michael Kors before him during New York Fashion Week, Christopher Kane embraced camouflage’s ninth life by emblazoning it on parkas, leather dresses and even as patchwork on motocross jackets.
The new Katrantzou For the first time since launching her print-tastic and brightly-hued namesake collection in 2009, Mary Katrantzou switched up her signature by entering sombre territory for Fall 2013. Inspired by wartime photographers Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz, Katrantzou used a palate of mostly black and grey to carve a new long, lean and hella curvilinear identity this season.
The new It hue While baby pink has been trending in the fancy town realm of Dior Haute Couture, London’s cool kids---Giles, Simone Rocha and Jonathan Saunders to name a few---embraced it with coats, separates and accessories proving baby pink more than a flash in the nostalgic pan for Fall 2013.
The new silhouette Waists be damned! Peter Pilotto’s standout hard shoulder and long coat combo was so striking, especially in its various red, yellow and grey colour combos. Whether it was wearable was another question entirely.
The new Tom Ford? Like a cross between Marc Jacobs Fall 2009, Miu Miu Spring 2011, early Yves Saint Laurent, Jeremy Scott and even a Bonnaroo festival goer, Tom Ford’s cross-ethic bling-heavy Fall 2013 collection was something to talk about to say the least. Ford would prefer not to hear what we think, which is why he’s stayed so far from proper runway collections for the past seven years. And so, since we have nothing nice to say, we just won’t say anything at all.