NYFW may be over, but Fashion Month has only just begun. Here’s the first of our London Fashion Week reviews, which you can see in full on our Fashion Week page. Between TopShop Unique‘s Egyptian themed body-con silhouettes, House of Holland‘s blown-up leopard spots and Jonathan Saunders 50s Miami prints, London is looking to be Read more →
Topshop channeled Elizabeth Taylor’s campy and flamboyant Cleopatra for their spring 2012 Unique show. And boy, did they take that theme and run with it. Anna Wintour and Naomi Campbell (yay, my first supermodel sighting in London!) were both front and center, as was Topshop owner Sir Philip Green. Alas, no Kate Moss, dashing our hopes that perhaps she may soon be involved in another collection.
From the slicked back hair covered in gold leaf to hieroglyphic graffiti on everything, this collection was for a modern Egyptian queen, albeit with a quick detour through the 80s and early 90s hip hop. Black and gold were the prominent colorways, and the message here was, “Go body-con or go home.” Gold squiggles (super 80s moment here!) and gold hieroglyphics adorned everything from tube tops to bike shorts to tight dresses.
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LONDON–Random notes from Topshop‘s fall show:
An insane crowd of photogs swarmed around Anna Wintour when she arrived in her seat. Alexa Chung, Harley Viera Newton, and Pixie Geldof were an afterthought.
Yesterday the UK’s Daily Mail posted one of their standard non-stories about a celebrity, built up around some photos. It secured the top spot on the paper’s website, so you’d assume the celeb story was about an A-lister. Not so. Olivia Palermo of all people, in her bikini with her boyfriend, had garnered the lead story spot. “Far away from The City: Reality TV star Olivia Palermo puckers up with model boyfriend as she shows off bikini in St Barts,” the headline blared.
Across the pond, Palermo seems to have become more of a celebrity than she is back here. She’s been a fixture for several seasons now at London Fashion Week, sitting front row at Topshop Unique and Richard Nicoll, she snagged the cover of Tatler which ran with the headline “Girl of the Year,” she was one of Vogue UK’s “Today I’m Wearing” style diary girls, and was the face of Freda for Matches, the upscale UK boutique chain.
So why all the fuss?
This week, Kate Bosworth glammed it up in Derek Lam. Sienna Miller sported a perfect daytime look of cropped trousers and white sweater by Topshop. Freida Pinto looked gorgeous as usual in a bold Alexander McQueen number. Finally, Elle Fanning and her Somewhere director Sofia Coppola both looked lovely in Marchesa and Celine, respectively.
LONDON–Steve Nicks’ Edge of Seventeen provided the arc in Topshop Unique‘s Spring 2011 runway soundtrack. And it was wholly appropriate. Styled by Katie Grand, the girls were ’70s all the way.
We loved the ‘fros, but our favorite pieces were the sheer, flowy pants, long suit jackets and a berry sweater and hot pants set that looked innocent in a sea of sex and rock ‘n roll.
