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Day 5: Mark Fast, Mary Katrantzou, Fashion East, Vauxhall Fashion Scout Fall 2009
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Everywhere I’ve been seeing this intense, starkly angular, raven-haired woman, and wondering, how do I know that face? What magazine does she edit, again? And it’s only on the last day of London Fashion Week that I realize: duh. Erin O’Connor...
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Day 4: Erdem, Jasper Conran, NewGen, Paul Smith Fall 2009
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Best thing about LFW: all the different venues. More shows are held outside the great white tents than in them. From the Saatchi Gallery to the Science Museum, a repurposed industrial warehouse to a shabby-genteel flat, every day is a whipstitch through London’s patchwork heart...
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Day 3: Betty Jackson, Nicole Farhi, Christopher Kane, Eley Kishimoto and PPQ Fall 2009
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
On Day 3 of LFW, Sunday brunch is a wistful memory. It’s a grey and early breakfast instead, then a black cab to Betty Jackson’s 9:15 a.m.(!) show in the tents. Thankfully, it’s all very nice: buttercup and baby blue knits (love the cropped sweaters!) and wildflower or woodgrain-printed silks...
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Day 2: John Rocha, Topshop and Jenny Packham Fall 2009
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
In John Rocha’s Dover Street shop the other day, I inquired about a couple of large wire-frame rabbits. “Oh, those were going to be hats,” a charming salesboy replied, “but it turned out to be too much, so we left them as sculptures.”
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Day 1: Ashish and Andrew Majtenyi Fall 2009
By Sarah Nicole Prickett
Here for a breathless ten minutes, haven’t even made it to the registration desk, and already two mussily cool girls with wicked shoes and SLRs have asked me to pose for their street style blogs. Ah, yes. Welcome to Fashion Week, the London way...
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