Nooooow we’re talking. Every fashion month, London Fashion Week is like the fun prize we get for sitting through New York Fashion Week (or, alternately, like the party you’re allowed to go to after you’re finally excused from dinner with your parents). Of course there’s greatness and lovely ideas at NYFW—for Spring, the standouts included Degen, Gypsy Sport, and Eckhaus Latta, so basically the young and fun and weirdo anti-establishmentarians—but young and fun and weirdo and unorthodox and unexpected and anti-establishment is the general rule at London Fashion Week. Basically, London fashion designers are on the whole way cooler than New York fashion designers. It’s a renaissance. Don’t be mad, just let it wash over you.
Above, looks from Typical Freaks at LFW’s “Ones to Watch” runway show present fashion literally as a crafty creative endeavor, copious fabrics and patterns alluding to batiks and silkscreens full of youthful whimsy and creativity. Fashion is fun, everyone chill out!
First off, I have to commend Bora Aksu for solving the dilemma that is the flash tattoo by just saying fuck-all and putting it on the face. You know how flash tattoos are slightly embarrassing and often suck from a design standpoint but a part of you sort of secretly wants to try them? Conquer your fears by putting them on your forehead like these; wear with pride! Anyway, these gauzy chiffon shifts are marshmallow clouds of intricate laser-cut lace patterns, super-ethereal and romantic but also devastatingly modern, especially when bright shades of putrescent green weave into the delicate pinks. Triumphal as fuck.
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