by Hannah Kane | Feb 17, 2014 | Fashion
Murmurs of hushed excitement rippled through the crowd as the first model emerged at John Rocha’s Autumn Winter 14 show, her head and shoulders enveloped in oversized, midnight ruffles, undulating above a black hand-crochet dress, interspersed with teardrop-shaped...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 21, 2014 | Fashion
Xiao Li has been named Merit Award Winner for Fashion Scout AW14, and will receive a fully sponsored catwalk show and exhibition at Fashion Scout at the Fashion Scout Paris showroom. The Chinese born, London-based designer – who studied at The London College of...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 16, 2014 | Fashion
Within the echoing halls of the Old Sorting Office, guests sipped on cocktails handed out by gleaming models lined up at the door, while dance music throbbed through the speakers and campaigns shots were projected onto the walls. And this was just the pre-show waiting...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 15, 2014 | Fashion
It was a brooding melancholy that pervaded Christopher Shannon’s daring and innovative Autumn Winter 2014 show, held at the blacked-out Sorting Office. As the models stalked the runway in Adidas trainers with tendrils of wet hair plastered to their face, it became...
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 8, 2014 | Fashion
Receiving a coconut on arrival sets the tone for Orlebar Brown’s jungle-themed collection. It’s crowded inside, and included amongst the coconut water-sipping guests are Dermot O’Leary and PHOENIX cover star David Gandy. For High Summer, models pose amidst smoke and...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 6, 2014 | Fashion
A technicolour adventure to New York, Amsterdam and the mountains of Tyrol unfolded at luxury knitwear label John Smedley’s London Collection: Men’s showcase this week. Dubbed ‘The Journey’ and inspired by the well-thumbed pages of family photo albums dating...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 15, 2013 | Fashion
In the gilded opulence of the Savoy ballroom, ex-Fashion Fringe winning duo Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman, aka Fyodor Golan, presented their AW13 collection. Entitled Belle De Jour after Luis Bunuel’s 1967 film, according to the show notes it “unravels the...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 15, 2013 | Fashion
First up on day 1 of London Fashion Week was PHOENIX favourite Zoe Jordan. While her SS13 canary yellow tailoring is currently gracing our spring issue, autumn’s offering is a pared down monochrome affair of modern, minimal brilliance occasionally accented with...
