We just got our schedule for London Fashion Week, and although the whole event seems incredible as always, there’s one particular day – Wednesday, February 13 – that’s a little too OMG for words.
The party starts at noon with Armand Basi, a favorite avant guardian of ours from last season, when he sent Tanya D. preening down the runway in a skirt of faux plastic feathers and not much else.
At 2:30, Richard Nicoll takes his turn and starts something of an underground fashion triathalon:
3:30 has House of Holland, the uniform of cool DJs and cooler emerging models. 4:30 hosts Fashion East, the hotly anticipated and always crazy group show for new designers. 5:30 slates the Serbian beauty Roksanda Illincic, whose floaty dress is seen on Irina Lazareanu at left, and then 6:30 we get the plastic fantastic genius of artist / designer / resident misfit Gareth Pugh. Strangely (perfectly?) every one of these labels has the same publicist – the madcap babe Mandi Lennard, who’s kind of like Vivienne Westwood mixed with Bonnie Morrison.
Then at 7:30 it’s time for Giles, and 8:30 has Rodnik.
We suggest trying to carpool with Jefferson Hack, Peaches Geldof, or best yet, with Agyness – after all, the shows can’t start until she’s blown through hair and makeup.