If anyone is rocking it at London Fashion Week, it's
Burberry Prorsum. There's a dreamy quality to the entire collection. Not a single model looks weighed down by the looks. The fabrics move, flow and gather in ways that only serve to accentuate the female form. It's a beautiful collection overall. Even the makeup has an ethereal quality about it.
Best of all, it looks so cheerful and optimistic. I love it when a design house rolls out a collection that says "I'm happy" to the world. Christopher Bailey is certainly conveying that message with the 2010 RTW collection for spring. The colors aren't bright, but I've grown accustomed to seeing the neutrals and safari-friendly colors for spring. (Besides... it's London not Jupiter Island. You can't be expecting Lilly Pulitzer's Jubilee Pink to come down the runway.) Still, the look is refreshing.
And if you aren't already hitting the gym, it's time sweetie. Skirts on every runway were short, short, short. Dresses? Short, short, short. Seriously, sweetie, you can't hide those gams under a muumuu next year, so buck up and join Lifetime Fitness. There's no escaping the rising hemlines.
The other key points to note here are the defined waist (huzzah!), the socks coordinating worn with platforms (interesting in a King Tut mummy kind of way) and the shoulder bags. I LOVE having my hards free. Clutches are certainly cute and undeniably fashionable, but I'd so much rather thave my hards free than have to babysit a handbag all evening. Christopher's entire concept communicates comfort, ease and day-to-night dressing. Completely wearable and increibly confidence boosting. And for me, that's what fashion ought to do for a woman.
Now... go get that gym membership, ladies. You'll thank me next spring!
{And if the old adage is true, that stock prices rise with hemlines,
you might want to drop a few dollah' bills in your investment banker's
lap over the next few months.}
Hello, lovely.
