THE ENGLISH SOCIETY WITHIN THE 19th CENTURY
Let’s have a look from the window, opening into the communal and cultural dwelling of eighteenth century society in England. I’m nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is to decorate better than anyone else.” Simpson was named as an affect by Caroline Charles, who put belted tweed jackets and little round hats on the catwalk, and likewise – slightly daringly, I assumed – by Daniella Helayel, the designer of Issa, of engagement-photocall-blue-dress-fame, who revived a quintessentially British pheasant-feather motif from an early assortment for this season.
As such it is an important plank of the British Style Council’s choice to position London as a hotbed of recent, younger, and multicultural talent, versus the focus on extra conventional and established brands often seen in New York, Paris, and Milan.
Amongst them, 4 Indonesian designers presented collections of ‘modest-put on’ – up-relationship traditional Muslim fashions in an try to mix ‘collective and cultural roots with a creative, cosmopolitan future’ – a sign of London’s importance as a center catering for the luxurious Muslim vogue market that’s estimated to be value £160 billion.
Within the Fashionable Galleries stands an extraordinary 18th-century Spitalfields silk court docket-dress, for instance, silver-embroidered …