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Fashion International

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Fashion International is an event that champions up and coming labels and gives a platform to young talent. It is held every fashion week along side the more established designers

 

This year the show was held at Charing Cross Hotel in Holborn. Press and buyers were seated in the suite around a circular catwalk in the Betjeman Suite. The designers showing this year for the SS14 show the designers were Wajahat Mirza, AGA, Yuvna Kim ,Dee Duce and Gianni Lilliu.

The designer who really stood out from the crowd was Yuvna Kim. Her esquiste evening gowns, which caused the audience to gasp, are beautifully made and are embroidered with crystals,beads and pearls. What was so special about this collection was not only the way it was made, but that the fabrics were sheer leaving the models half naked,revealing their bodies under neither or nude underwear. This could have gone horribly wrong, but Kim manages to make the dresses elegant, sophisticated and sexy all at the same time.

Dress by Yuvna Kim

Dress by Yuvna Kim

 

Dress by Yuvna Kim

Dress by Yuvna Kim

 

Dress by Yuvna Kim

Dress by Yuvna Kim

 

Dress by Yuvna Kim

Other favorite looks were from Gianni Lilliu collection , which celebrates the female for and draws from the sculpt David Begbie’s studies of steel and bronze mesh. In particular a  gold and black baby dolls dress stood out, as well as the silhouettes and clean lines he managed to create with some great fabrics and materials throughout the collection.

Dress by Gianni Lilliu

Dress by Gianni Lilliu

 

Playsuit by Gianni Lilliu

Playsuit by Gianni Lilliu

 

Dress by Gianni Lilliu

Dress by Gianni Lilliu

 

Dress by Gianni Lilliu

Dress by Gianni Lilliu

Wajahat Mirza’s collection which was based on exotic birds also had some beautiful colourful and wearable evening gowns.

Dress by Majahat a]
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Sadly the thing that let down the show was the some of the too skinny models, which not only is a bad image to promote in the first place but it ruined the effect of the clothes, and instead of falling of the body as evening wear should it hung of them and didn’t show the clothes to their highest potential.
It is always good to see an events that champions young designers and Fashion International does it very well, putting on exiting events where the audience has a chance to mingle, meet the desingers and see some of the looks up close after the show over a glass of champagne.
Find out more about Fashion International here:
http://www.fashioninternational.co.uk

Picks from the Somerset House Exhibitions

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The exhibitions at Somerset House showcase the newest designers in jewellery, millinery, footwear and  the latest in contemporary women’s wear for press and buyers.

The exhibitions are one of the best  parts of fashion week. There is the chance to meet designers, see the collections up close and discover new talent. There is the eccentric, the sophisticated and the truly weird and wonderful, all in one place.
Frost  has picked a few favourites and ones to watch from this year so far…
JENA.THEO
Contemporary Womenswear designer
Founders Jenny Holmes and Dimitris Theocharidis offer luxury garments in  jerseys, silks and leather,and a great selection of denim pieces.The clothes cater and flatten women of all sizes and the collection features a number of great prints. A personal favourite is a fun shirt and trouser look printed with a skeleton.
Jena. Theo

Jena. Theo

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LUKE BROOKS
Luke Brooks is a CSM MA graduate collection features in this years Ones To Watch Section. His works are a selection of garments which are printed with rubbing he has taken from Graves Stones in  New England, USA, which had been carved by the early settlers (late 17th and 18th century stones).  The pieces are thought provoking and beautiful and the print work brilliantly with the shapes of the clothes and the lines of the body. This collection is truly unique and Frost looks forward to Luke Brooks next collection!
  Luke Brooks
HALO &CO
Jewellery
Halo & Co are exhibiting for the first time this fashion week.
They are a fun colourful brand with some innovative and exiting designs. The neck and shoulder piece decorate with gold elephants is completely unique and unlike any pieces of jewellery Frost has seen before.
Halo&Co
JACOB KIMMIE (Bathos)
Contemporary Womenswear
Jacob Kimmie collection Bathos is second in a trilogy of libertine works. There is emphasis on ‘eroticism, classicism and the ostentatious’. On walking into the room Frost was drawing to the rich colouring of the garments as well as the exiting and innovative pattern cutting techniques used. This is a truly beautiful brand and defiantly worth checking out.
SUMARIE
Couture Swimwear
Sumarie is a couture swimwear brand. The pieces are simple, sexy and elegant and if your looking for swimwear that is a little bit special this is the place to look.
submarie

Vauxhall Fashion Scout: Merit Award Winner Heohwan Simulation S/S13

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This years Merit Award Winner was Heohwan Stimulation S/S13 ….

Heohwan’s collection was classic, clean cut with strong geometric shapes and monochrome prints. Fresh black white and grey looks were splashed with colour through cropped lime green jackets, a floaty orange and yellow coats.  The strong lines of the square jacket and tops matched loose elegant trousers and wide skirts creating sunning silhouettes that swept down the catwalk.

Highlights of the collection were the high necked grey trench coat, the leather pieces pierced with holes and the top skirt combination that two twins ended the show.

For anyone who likes a fresh classic modern look the Heowan Simualtion S/S13 is a collection to defiantly look out for.