Panic on the streets of London Part Two...

It's so hard to chose just a few more collections from London to share with you as i loved so many of them but i am going to begin with David Koma with only his third collection he created a show based around a sophisticated palette of blacks, whites, golds and severely pale pinks, peaches and yellows. The dresses went through a whole transition from little pleated and peplum skirts in pale colours, with sheer panels on top, to monochrome assembles, onto monochrome with a hint of yellow and peach, then black was swapped for gold, and then to finish off it was an all black affair from short to long dresses. It was a truly cohesive collection if ever i did see one.

Up next is Matthew Williamson who's collection had a glamorous tribal feel to it, the intricate techniques and embellishment he used were exquisite, he had flowing dresses that appeared sun bleached, perfectly cut trousers, woven tops and those oh-my-god-i-love-that-dress party frocks. One of my favourite features of the show is the skirts some with tiered, layers they almost look like a grass skirt that had had a trim, some with suede fringing, one was covered all over in gold sequins with peacock feather donning the hem just beautiful.  I also liked the culotte type affair that was happening with the shorts and trousers with giant although subtle studs on the waist band and pockets, a truly awe inspiring show.

Cooperative Designs is a label created by knitwear designers Annalisa Dunn and Dorothee Hagemann who meet at St Martins and founded their label in 2008. They enjoy creating experimental and innovative knitwear mixing old and new techniques to produce an interestingly modern outcome.  I read an interview with them recently and here's how they described their s/s 11 collection "S/S 11 is called 'Bollywood Babylon'. It's a '30s Hollywood film version of India, really over the top. We've got some animalistic prints that are modern and graphic."  And their not lying the collection is certainly over the top and definitely features prints although 'features' may be an understatement try features on every surface possible.  The collection oozes cool fashion forward print clashing wonderfulness and i love it. Cooperative Designs clothes for A/W 10 are available from asos.com now YEY!

Last but by no means least Louise Gray who's show was as usual brightly coloured, crafty, layered, textured and bold, the models wore heaps of rags and coloured raffia in their hair, eyes smeared with bright colours and sandals designed by the great Nicolas Kirkwood. The fabrics we're faded in parts and the outfits had a kind of recycled vibe about them with bottle top embellishment stuck on the bottom of shorts and on tops, those arts and crafts neon star type cardboard shapes you have as a kid inserted in clear tops to fall where they like and what appeared to be paint stains on the fabrics. The thing i love about Gray is her ability to layer on clothes to produce an edgy outfit and she continued with this throughout the collection.

Other Collections from London worth a look:

Clements Ribeiro.

Mulberry.

Temperley London.

Richard Nicoll.