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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

Ted Baker For London Fashion Week

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I went to see Ted Baker’s new Hunger Games inspired collection at the One Aldwych Hotel. Firstly I devoured a cake on a stick, which was absolutely delicious. As I rifled through the rails I was very impressed by the clothes. There were lots of beautiful Autumn colours and textures.

The menswear was inspired by being outdoors and fishing, as Ted Baker loves fishing. In the womenswear there was beautiful snakeskin accessories, prints were in, bold colours and fake fur. It was day five at the Handpicked Media suite. I also got my nails done by Teds Beauty Spot therapists. It was the first time I got Shellac nails. Shellac nails look amazing and last two-to-three-weeks. I got a beautiful coral shade that doesn’t even have a chip yet. I also loved their swimwear and hats. Ted Baker’s new collection is gorgeous. Full marks.

London Gets Ready For First Ever Men’s Fashion Week(end).

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London is set to host the UK’s first ever Men’s Fashion Week(end). Also known as Men’s Collections, these three days will celebrate the rise in the profile, creativity and commercial success of men’s fashion in the UK. And nowhere is this more apparent than online.

The UK’s leading fashion site ShopStyle.co.uk is used to dealing with over one million users searching for the latest designer womenswear pieces or high street must-haves but the UK online fashion leader has seen a 300% year-on-year increase in sales generated for its top 5 menswear retailers, revealing that it’s not just women who are keen to be seen in the latest looks.

Leading the charge for ShopStyle are men’s brands like Topman and Mr Porter but the fashion shopping hub has also seen a number of new retailers such as Pretty Green entering the online race, as well as unisex brands such as Ted Baker, Next and My-Wardrobe.

The company believes the uplift is driven by the increase in mobile devices and shopping apps which enable men to shop on the go or pick-up an item they may have seen on the street or in a shop window, quickly and easily via their mobile phone. ShopStyle has seen 3x increase in mobile driven searches in the same May to May period and believes that men drive a substantial percentage of these searches.

Shannon Edwards, VP for ShopStyle Europe believes that new technologies are driving men online to shop for fashion. She says: “There’s been a real focus in the UK on improving men’s fashion and that has tempted many style-aware blokes to come out of the woodwork. But for these guys the prospect of spending Saturday afternoon in the changing room leaves them cold. For them, mobile allows them to shop for the big looks without having to spend hours at their computer or in the store.”

THE Rodnik Band

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London Fashion Week was in full force in February – a flurry of indelible catwalk designs and world wide fashion influence were in abundance. One show the Frost girls and I attended, that made a sustained mark on the mind – was the Rodnik Band Show. A collection of post moder pop art frenzy – a clever and refreshing illustration of art and fashion, with the essential ingredients to create a niche flavour for an otherwise more conformed ideology of fashion.

The face behind the charactered pieces is Scottish born Phillip Colbert – who’s uncanny approach to fashion, bares a strong reflection to his own persona. “I make clothing with a strong sense of fun”, Says Colbert “Conception and shape is important to me.”

Humouring the fine line between Art and Fashion, Colbert takes an expression, an art form – accordingly forming his interpretation visually – in fashion mode. Opting to relate to art as his muse, Colbert derives the idea and fascination of combining  bright, bold art with the enthusiasm of original fashion.

“I like the idea that my clothing is taken off the wall and worn, that each style expresses and artistic idea that is accessible and makes a thoughtful statement.”



Colbert‘s dynamic vision was evident at his A/W 2011 Show – encompassing a strong sense of conversation and expressive narrative within his collections. With a distinct belief in the notion of fashion fantasy and escapism, Colbert effortlessly executes a light hearted humour to his work.

The highlight of Colbert‘s shows, is the music he accompanies in presentation of each piece – in perfect harmony with the expressive path and nature to each one of his collections.

A joy to see, Colbert single handedly omits a strong sense of creativity in hand with fashion. “I am inspired to reinvent the way people look at fashion and clothes – if you change the way you look at something, the thing you look at changes!”

Paul Costelloe – LFW – The Review

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The newly rescued Paul Costelloe opened London Fashion Week with a collection that mixed fun and sophistication for his Autumn/Winter 2011 range.

Bright candy coloured hues of pink, green, orange and yellow sauntered down the catwalk alongside checked tweeds, metallic jaquards, and pchycadelic prints – all keeping with this season’s top gun fashion trends of the sixties and seventies.
The sixties silouettes and details that prevails as being one of the hot trends of this year, played a significant part in Costelloe’s collection.  On women, trapeze coats, boxy jackets and tweed bomber jackets were teamed with skater skirts and accesorized with bright opaque tights and nude platform courts.
Sixties baby doll dresses with peterpan collars and mock button plackets came in bright and checked tweeds, bright watercolour prints and metallic brocade. In the fashion hype for deep stitch detail and colour blocking, Costelloe procured his collection with a flow of bold, statement making pieces.
Detailing came in the form of pleats; most notably at the waist and neckline. With the instilled brightness of the collection, some may have found this a less noticable factor – but us at Frost, found it simply divine.
The Female and Male Fashion show, showed the female models dressed in matching red bobbed wigs in perfect accompaniment with a mix of soft lilac and traffic light Red shades of  lipstick – intrinsic to the quality of Costelloe’s shows.
Menswear styles were slightly more muted and resembed lounge wear, aside from the brightly hued check jacket, the subtler designs included velvet jackets and belts – in keeping with the signature sophistication of the Costelloe Man.

The brand was recently rescued from administration by Cesar Araujo, the owner and chief executive of Portuguese supply group Calvelex, who has set up a new UK based company named Couture Brands.

Emesha. Brilliant New Clothing line. {Style}

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Emesha launches new collection at Estethica

Emesha is being heralded as the exciting, new sustainable brand to watch – and the collection will be shown for the first time in the UK at Estethica at London Fashion Week.

Emesha is the sporty-luxe label for the woman who does not want to compromise on style and quality. Experimental pattern cutting, draping and crisp tailoring techniques are combined to create clean silhouettes and feminine looks.

The covetable AW10 collection combines strong masculine and ultra feminine elements, representing the ever changing emotions of a woman – with inspiration coming from the emotional extremes of love and hate, happiness and sadness, soft and rough. These feelings are reflected in the mix of shapes, colours and fabrics, combining draping with cutting edge tailoring to all blend into a visually balanced collection.

The collection includes masculine pieces such as cargo pants and romantic feminine draping, with little black dresses to compliment the daywear pieces, all worn rough for an urban chic look. The colour palette includes khakis, blacks, greys, beiges and a touch of bright pink in a range of fabrics from soft silks to hard woolens.

Expert production skills result in a collection with superior attention to detail and the highest standard of quality, a veritable abundance of playful but wearable pieces.

www.emesha.com

Emesha Nagy founded her label Emesha in 2008 having graduated from the London College of Fashion in 2006 and was selected to show her graduate collection at the Swatch Alternative Fashion Week in London. Her previous experience includes working with Vivienne Westwood and Jasper Conran.

The Emesha label was launched in the United States at Nolcha Fashion Week, New York to exceptional reviews and Emesha Nagy noted as a “One To Watch” by Nolcha.

Emesha is fully committed to environmental and social responsibilities. The fabrics used are 100% natural, therefore fully bio-degradable. The brand’s mission is to always source new eco-friendly fabrics, use sustainable materials and recycle as much as possible. They aim to use recycled paper for letterheads and labels, and promote e-brochures to save paper waste.

Emesha practices fair wage policy and production is organized to help the depriving fashion industry in Hungary to survive the difficult economic and social changes.

Estethica, London Fashion Week, Somerset House 19th – 23rd February.

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