by Hannah Kane | Sep 16, 2014 | Fashion
On day 4 of LFW I arrive into Kings Cross ages before the Michael Van Der Ham show, so head over to the Topshop show space on Gray’s Inn Road, which always has an amazing food and drinks counter. I find an avocado breakfast wrap and feel glad to have eaten something...
by Hannah Kane | Sep 15, 2014 | Fashion
We’ve reached the midway point of fashion week today and thankfully it is a much less intense day for me than the previous two have been. My first show is palmer//harding, held in the atmospheric chapel undercroft at Lincoln’s Inn, scheduled at the civilised and...
by Hannah Kane | Sep 14, 2014 | Fashion
Fashion journalist Charlotte Gush reports on LFW Day 2, featuring Orla Kiely, Asli Polat, Holly Fulton, Nasir Mazhar, Phoebe English and Lucas Nascimento… It’s an early start and I was not tucked up in bed by midnight last night. I meet Helen – a friend...
by Hannah Kane | Sep 13, 2014 | Fashion
Fashion journalist Charlotte Gush gives her run-down of LFW Day 1, feat. Jean-Pierre Braganza, DAKS and Shrimps… I always enjoy arriving into Temple station on the first day of fashion week, registering the slightly confused looks of the morning commuters who...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 26, 2014 | Fashion
“Is there something quite unusual about our guest? Because everything he does, the audience laughs about!” The voice of Arlene Francis from the famous American game show What’s My Line? in 1952 welcomes us into the Liz Black presentation in the Prince Regent Room at...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 20, 2014 | Fashion
In the tiny ‘cinema’ corner of the BFC main tent, Hemyca showed their Autumn Winter 2014 collection Neoteric as a presentation and film screening, part of the official digital schedule. Herded into the centre of the room, with models parading around us,...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 17, 2014 | Fashion
Paper might not be the most out-there inspiration for a brand that has staked its name on precise white shirting, but the fabric development undertaken by palmer//harding certainly kept their AW14 collection interesting. American cotton underwent a multitude of...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 15, 2014 | Fashion
After an impressively short delay due to a dramatic exploding water pipe that spewed steaming hot water over a swathe of showgoers, the Oliver Spencer show at the Old Sorting Office began in earnest. Specials drummer John Bradbury played a live set from the middle of...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 10, 2014 | Fashion
As the lights went down at Topman Design AW14, a specially-commissioned spoken word piece read by rock-star poet John Cooper Clarke set the mood: ‘Apparel, Jim, watch this space.’ Inspired by stormy Northern skies, heavy industry, sea-scapes and ship-yards, the...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 10, 2014 | Fashion
On the final night of the men’s collections, Savile Row tailor Chester Barrie hosted its AW14 presentation on the top floor of The Ivy’s private members’ area, The Club. In the tiny room, which by 6 o’clock was packed tightly around several...
