LONDON–Christopher Bailey is an optimist. “I don’t think it’s been a negative time in fashion!” he exclaimed to a reporter after yesterday’s lovely Burberry Prorsum show. By the time I got my chance to ask him a few questions, I already had a clear idea of his vision for Fall 2011: Early 1960s Burberry adverts starring Jean Shrimpton, and the weather. Those two references translated to a modern, cocoon-like silhouette and a finale that included clear–black patent leather piped–rain capes and “snow” falling from the rafters. (The first row’s heads were covered in the confetti, including Anna Wintour’s.)

What is it with Brits and the weather? “I think because it’s so changeable. I called my mum yesterday and she said that it was snowing in Yorkshire, which is only three hours away,” he told me enthusiastically, as if it was the first question he’d been asked all day. “Here, it was kind of bright sunshine and somewhere else it’s rainy. It changes so much that I think it’s something that we’ve become obsessed about.”

LONDON–There’s been a trend this season which everyone’s calling “texture blocking.” Like Alexander Wang and Peter Pilotto, Erdem used this technique, but it was more about the fusing of two fabrics than blocking.

LONDON–As much as I’d like to ignore Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos‘ program notes about Fall 2011′s “army of youthful revolutionaries” and simply talk about how the clothes looked, I can’t. Just a post ago, I made the argument that fashion is art, so why shouldn’t this team’s art be taken as seriously as what’s on right now at the Tate?