LFW - Big name designers we can live with

This fashion week we chose the establishment shows we wanted to go to on merit. However, most of the shows didn’t have any. Monday, though, meant Marios Schwab, Christopher Kane, and a film shot by Vice contributor Ryan McGinley for Pringle and Showstudio. Here’s an accelerated run through of the best “the Man” has to offer.

This outfit sums up all the big trends at Kane’s show: checks, pastels, loads of chiffon, and cutaway holes.

The photo shows how cruel it is to take a kid to a fashion show, just to prove to everyone else there that you are able to style it better than the fleet of Saint Martins grads backstage can style a train of models.

Schwab took over at Halston, a super famous New York-based label that owned fashion in the seventies, and is now owned by former Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein. Like Kane, Schwab made his name designing figure-hugging ‘body-con’ dresses, but again like Kane, he’s since moved on.

Of course that woman who gets compared to the devil a lot was there…

Gareth Pugh no longer shows in London; he did, however, show in New York last week. This film, which was playing on an enormous screen at the Showstudio opening, is as close as we got to him. Beyoncé wears Gareth Pugh these days, and watching that film while thinking about his clothes (which exist within a space defined by DUNE space royalty and N-Trance) it’s reassuring to know he’s colouring the mainstream weird.