So that's it, London Fashion Week has come to and end and with it the capital's fashion conscious have decamped to Milan for yet another week of stunning shows and hopefully some warmer weather.
The week basically felt like the coronation of Cara Delevigne. She seemed to be the go-to girl for every show and, if you hadn't already, we all fell in love with her.
To the right I am with my friend Lucy at Somerset House. Marcus Dawes took our photo and I was very surprised to then find it on the London Fashion Week website and printed in "The Daily" the fashion week newspaper. Does this mean I am part of the fashion set now?
Anyway, here are my favourites from London Fashion Week AW13.
McQ
I love a bit of tailoring so naturally McQ was going to be a hit. I strong tailoring with an injection of fun is something that London's fashion week does better than any other. Teamed with simple white shirts I believe you can't go wrong and this was demonstrated at this show.
The animal print trend was also perfectly clear to see at the McQ show with their tailoring also coming in fun, multicoloured zebra prints.
There was a hint of explorer (albeit very well dressed explorer) about the Issa show that I loved. The Indiana Jones-esque hats at an angle gave the models a look that made me think they were about to go trekking through a rainforest. Model of the moment and March 2013 Vogue cover girl Cara Delevigne opened the show in a flowing dress teamed with a black roll neck and boots. Daniella Helayel said backstage at the show that the Issa woman "is cooler, she wants to explore". It was a departure for Issa who are probably best known, rightly on wrongly, for Kate Middleton's engagement dress. If this was an attempt to reinvent themselves then it certainly worked for me.
House Of Holland
If I had to pick one show from this week that I thought embodied what London is about right now then it would be the House Of Holland show, titled 'Rave Nana'. House of Holland provide the clothes that the coolest girls in London want to wear. Pixie, Winstone, Lowe, were all on the front row. These are girls who want to have fun with what they wear. With an 80s and 90s rave inspired soundtrack, 70s wallpaper print inspired dresses and neon abound the show could have proved too much but it wasn't. It captured London in 2013. It also made me ask myself the question. Are mini skirts really going to be making a return?
Burberry Prorsum
The quintessentially British brand provided my favourite show of the week. The Burberry show has quickly become the centre-piece event of London fashion weeks and this year's did not fail to dissapoint. The front row was quite possibly the most star studded I have ever seen. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in that red suit, Rita Ora with the 'Queen Cara' t-shirt and a sea of socialites, editors and bloggers completing the front row in the beautiful, purpose built space in Kensington Gardens. Christopher Bailey, this year, showed Burberry's sexy side whilst maintaining its British charm. Kinky rubber was mixed with sweeter-than-sweet love heart prints to give an naughty but nice look. It would be very easy for Burberry to become stagnant. We know them best for their staple piece: the trench. It is testament to the genius of Christopher Bailey that he can reinvent this classic, each time bringing something new and fresh.
My picks from this show would have to be Cara's sheer rubber skirt teamed with love heart underwear and leopard print top. It sounds too much but Burberry stuck to their traditional pallette to give something both outlandish and yet subtle at the same time and the spots and stripes over-sized coat. I don't know if it is just the model and the sunglasses but surely this is a reference to front row-er Anna Wintour? The Burberry Prorsum show, my favourite from London Fashion Week 2013.
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