LONDON FASHION WEEK A/W 2024 TEMPERLEY LONDON, ROKSANDA, SIMONE ROCHA, ERDEM, MOLLY GODDART and BURBERRY

 

 

Picture Credit score London Style Week, Vogue, WWD and Hypebeast

 

The heavyweights at London Style Week unequivocally pulled out all of the stops in every week that noticed the likes of Burberry, Simone Rocha, Erdem et al give us a strong taster of what we’d be carrying come Autumn 2024. As well 2024 commemorates the 4^th decade of London Style Week with over 40 exhibits and 15 shows – a visible feast of epic proportions, and a few celebration it was!

We got a peek into the important thing traits for the following season – some had been quintessentially British and quirky, different traits we’ve seen step by step gaining style momentum and maturing over the previous few seasons on the respective style weeks throughout the globe.

As for the important thing accent of the second – it needs to be the bow! We noticed this frivolous assertion get together piece at Erdem, Molly Goddart and Richard Quinn in all guises, sizes and shades.

Fake fur has been showing in most winter choices over the previous few years, however this season it was correctly placed on a pedestal: the likes of Roksanda, Burberry and David Koma rocked this cosy pattern, as did Simone Rocha.

Sheer and flimsy clear chiffon layers had been showcased at Simone Rocha, David Koma and Eudon Choi – one other pattern we’ve been conserving a eager eye on over the previous few seasons.

Assertion prints made a daring entrance – Erdem, Ahluwalia and Sinead Gorey ensured that printed floor design can look as easy in winter because it does in summer time.

It goes with out saying that LFW wouldn’t be LFW with out the avant-garde and the experimental, and certainly the quirkiest of forward-thinking design was bravely on present, significantly showcased by the scholars of the legendary St Martins.

These traits – basic and avant-garde – will inevitably discover their method into the excessive streets and into our wardrobes – look out for them! However for now, sit again and luxuriate in our choose of the perfect of the exhibits.

 

TEMPERLEY LONDON

Alice Temperley introduced a kaleidoscope of bohemian West Nation-influenced items on the fabulous Claridge’s Resort. It was a severely glamorous affair.

Leopard prints in each scrumptious shade, Temperley’s trademark sequins, teeny weeny bias reduce slip clothes, bell-sleeved frocks, metallic velvet sheaths, tuxedos, luxurious silk home coats and thigh excessive boots had been the spine of a set that was, above all, self-indulgently joyous.

These are uber attractive items – however on the identical time they oozed a mixture of understated flamboyance and opulent classic luxe. It was like being invited to the final word boho stylish get together on the town (assume Kate Moss and Sienna Miller) and being dressed simply proper for the event. The Western-inspired paraphernalia – the embroidered shoulder items, frilly ‘madam of the saloon’- polka dot clothes, the bows and assertion hats give the items that final genuine kick. Simply in case you didn’t clock the theme.

 

ROKSANDA

Watch Roksanda’s present right here:

Excessive drama ensued at Tate Britain the place Roksanda Ilinčić confirmed her extremely anticipated assortment. The gathering was impressed by Le Corbusier’s murals at his cabin within the south of France. The colors, the shapes and the types of these items had been definitely nearer to artistic endeavors & structure than merely style – albeit beautiful style.

Gorgeous sculptural robes that twirled and swirled with outsized piping rubbed shoulders with classically-draped Greek goddess clothes. Outsized zips fashioned a part of the elaborations, as did waist-cinching belts on the silhouetted 3-piece fits.

The floaty and the swishy was cleverly juxtaposed with neatly tailor-made fits on the runway. Suave hand-painted floor design was seen on asymmetrical robes – a characteristic we’ve seen many instances in Roksanda’s collections. A standout piece is the dreamy chartreuse Cinderella robe with its twists and turns and bustiere prime.

 

ERDEM

Erdem Moralioglu’s tribute to opera singer Maria Callas was daring and theatrical, identical to the icon herself. Says Moraglioglu, “I used to be impressed by Medea and the lifetime of Maria Callas, she is an instance of girl and femininity that fascinated me. It’s just like the phoenix that’s reborn from its personal ashes. Within the assortment I attempted to seize and translate her gestures and the best way she wore garments into my garments utilizing drapes that fall and caress the décolleté, majestic gown manteau, and silk pajamas which however maintained continuity along with her perspective each in her skilled and personal life”.

It is a female assortment above all. Scarf clothes, robes with lengthy trains, marabou feather coats, bejewelled footwear, sheer clothes with ruffles, coats with triangular sculpted collars, outsized bows on clothes, pyjama-style co-ords with velvet trims and Moraglioglu’s signature vintage-inspired floral clothes had been simply a number of the items showcased on the British Museum.

Moraglioglu’s signature prints and Nineteen Fifties silhouettes had been seen on coats, clothes and pyjama fits. Endearing and nostalgic, this season’s providing but once more reaffirms that this designer creates for girls, and the ladies who put on his creations really feel simply as particular because the icons who encourage his collections.

 

BURBERRY

Watch Burberry’s present right here:

London Style Week – and the world – held their breaths for the extremely anticipated Burberry present underneath the inventive path of Daniel Lee to get underway.

The gathering is unabashedly British, in each quirky element. Assume English nation set, assume basic countryside dressing – the duffels, the bomber jackets, the ‘Barbour’ coats, the leather-based automotive coats, the waistcoats and scarves, they had been all there, however all got here with a unusual twist. The bomber jacket, for instance, was fully constructed from fringed wool, the automotive coat had exaggerated plaid wool button stands elaborations, the ditch coat got here with chunky shaggy fringe hems, V-neck jumpers had been daringly low reduce and scarves had been maxi with their fringes sweeping the ground…

Lengthy leather-based skirts got here with attractive one-button fasteners to show a lot leg, so did trousers with their outsized zips. Boots had been skin-tight or sagging groundwards in modern folds. Add to all the above some outsized furry hold-alls, dirndl skirts and the well-known woven Burberry plaid peeking out from underneath hoodies and sleeves, and you’ve got a good image of the fabulous complete. A palette of khaki inexperienced and brown tied all of it collectively and brilliant crimson tartan made the impartial color scheme pop. Oh, and scarves doubled as hoods – a brand new pattern!

That is undoubtedly utilitarian outerwear, however oh-so-covetable and so ‘now’. Assume conventional Burberry combined with a touch of grunge, and also you’ve nailed the look.

 

SIMONE ROCHA

Watch a snippet of Simone Rocha’s present right here:

Dublin designer Simone Rocha crammed St Bartholomew church along with her now iconic style: ‘The Wake’ is what she selected to call her newest assortment.

Rocha’s signature punk Victoriana silhouettes had been but once more at centre stage, however this time she centered on how mourning gear acted as “… a uniform, a safety blanket” and went to nice lengths to discover the function of undergarments and items that had been closest to the pores and skin, used as comforters throughout traumatic occasions. In actual fact, some fashions carried the final word comforters, 3-D mushy toys.

A whopping 50 totally different seems to be had been featured in Rocha’s present. Nude tulle brief fits, their jackets topped with fake fur and embellished with sequins, shared the runway with loose-fitting satin ‘wee willy winky’ nightdresses with outsized bows and sheer fake fur-hemmed capes. Corsets had been sported beneath lots of the see-through tunics.

Ice blue and pastel inexperienced featured as key colors, wanting sharp towards the mushy and cosy mid-brown fake fur. Standout items within the storyline most definitely had been the fake fur coats and clothes with their sequin elaborations. Tumbling earrings accomplished the seems to be.

 

MOLLY GODDART

Watch Molly Goddart’s present right here:

This AW 2024 assortment from a designer with a really sturdy signature look, merely delighted.

Molly Goddart blatantly admits that she provides ladies (and males) the inexperienced gentle to indulge and overdress – and this providing with its unabashed deep, brilliant colors and voluminous frilled tulle skirts does simply that. The color combos in every ensemble are impressed – take for instance the lipstick crimson and child pink ensemble full with two-tone crimson and pink brogues, or the symphony in deepest blackberry and lavender – merely edible!

The silhouettes haven’t modified from earlier seasons – they remained voluminous and comely. The season’s key pattern – the bow – options in lots of items as does contrasting piping as seen on coats.

All in all, that is merely a joyous celebration – and the way befitting that it coincides with London Style Week’s epic 40^th birthday!