Selfridges has announced the latest round of designers for its Bright Young Things initiative, a project it launched last year (with emerging designers Simone Rocha, Kirsty Ward, and Alex Noble in the mix) to support young designers in London. This year’s 15 Bright Young Things include womenswear designers Maarten van der Horst (the recent Central [...]

Some arena-playing rock bands travel less than young London’s designers. Those blessed by the British Fashion Council as part of the roving London Showrooms coterie have been on a whistle-stop world tour of late, hitting Paris, Hong Kong, L.A., and now, finally, New York, where they set up shop this morning to show their Spring [...]

Menswear hit the catwalk in London today for LFW’s dedicated MAN by Topman day. For those of you who weren’t able to make it to the U.K., Style.com is exclusively debuting three short films from Fashion East and Hidden Agency showcasing the Spring ‘12 collections by designers Shaun Samson, Matthew Miller, and Martine Rose. And [...]

Finding new talent can be a little like falling in love. Just ask Fashion East’s Lulu Kennedy. “Sometimes it can be like love at first sight, but more often than not, they’re a ‘grower,’ ” says the founder of London’s talent showcase with ten years and a “greatest hits” collection, Lulu & Co, to its [...]

For a decade now, Lulu Kennedy’s Fashion East has incubated some impressive talent: Gareth Pugh, Marios Schwab, Richard Nicoll, Roksanda Ilincic, and Henry Holland have all come through the one-time raver’s runway training ground. Kennedy commemorated the milestone Thursday night with a raucous launch party at Harvey Nichols for Lulu & Co—a capsule collection by [...]

Jo-Ann Furniss, editor in chief of Arena Homme+, reports from London fashion week’s MAN Day for Style.com.

The NewGen Men and Fashion East Men’s installations were, along with the menswear shows, one of the highlights of London fashion week’s MAN Day. At times, the whole thing felt like a drunken village fête—Jeanette’s shop-cum-speakeasy and milliner Nasir [...]

Christopher Bailey, Jonathan Saunders, and Matthew Williamson may have made headlines with their homecomings, but the real story at London fashion week—the one that will matter after Burberry returns to Milan and the 25th anniversary buzz wears off—is the city’s impressive roster of emerging talent. For those who missed the festivities, the British Fashion Council [...]

Krystof Strozyna and Emilio de la Morena don’t have much in common, fashion-wise, but that didn’t stop the two designers from sharing a runway Sunday afternoon. The off-schedule London fashion week show saw Strozyna, a native of Poland, kick off proceedings with a series of looks wound graphically with string and studded with small metal [...]

Sunday, September 14
Wake up at 5 a.m. with a list of stuff to do already racing through my mind. Can’t get back to sleep…ugh! It’s a blazing hot day, so I put on a David David jewel-colored silk tee, pegged trousers, and my trusty old Alaïa snakeskin sandals. I sling a party outfit for later [...]