Pure luck put me there to witness that take-off moment.
Also, that I had to have a pair of Dunlop plimsolls before the day was out.
Hussein Chalayan autumn/winter 2000.
Vivienne Westwood autumn/winter 1987.
John GallianosLesIncroyables, 1984.
Their work has uplifted the creativity of Britains cultures, communities and spiritual values on the world stage.
Designers Martine Rose, Supriya Lele and Simone Rocha who have all shown their collections as part of London Fashion Week.
That is, until general show tents went out of fashion.
Alexander McQueen spring/summer 1999.
Matthew Williams spring/summer 2008.
Hussein Chalayan autumn/winter 2000.
This citys designers will take you to places youve never been physically and emotionally.
Alexander McQueen showed his spring/summer 2001 collection,Voss, in a refuse collection depot in Victoria.
Meadham Kirchoff spring/summer 2012.
Vivienne Westwood autumn/winter 1987.
A huge tent landed in Kensington Gardens, right opposite the Royal College of Art, Baileys alma mater.
The adversary of such a jam-packed London Fashion Week schedule?
The capitals traffic or, rather, the to-ing and fro-ing in traffic.
John Galliano’sLesIncroyables, 1984.
Im still cursing the fact I missed it.
London, at the beginning, was the minnow in a pond of very much larger fashion players.
Wales Bonner spring/summer 2017.
Alexander McQueen spring/summer 1999.
JW Anderson autumn/winter 2013.
Its the energy and creativity of globally connected, multicultural communities from all around the UK.
Margaret Thatcher was in Downing Street, andDiana, Princess of Walesand what she wore was obsessing the world.
Matthew Williams spring/summer 2008.
Katherine Hamnett spring/summer 1985.
Politics, activism and subversion have run in the bloodstream of generations of London designers.
I think thats something to be really proud of.
Meadham Kirchoff spring/summer 2012.
It was high art, conceptual, beautiful yet absolutely and clearly haunted by the plight of refugees.
Whatever it is, well make you think and make you feel.
Above all, you cant afford to miss it, because Londons always where you see the future coming.
Burberry spring/summer 2010.
Thats what Ive been in it for.
Lucky, lucky me.
Wales Bonner spring/summer 2017.
JW Anderson autumn/winter 2013.
Katherine Hamnett spring/summer 1985.
