London Fashion Week: Wrap Up

We've done a fun wrap up of London Fashion week with a few of my favorite things, here. I wanted to address ama who said she is "hates that London is the running joke of fashion" and that Gareth Pugh clothes are wearable, just not by very many people. I hope no one read into my reviews disdain. I wouldn't make fun of anyone who puts their work out there. (And my editors put the word weird into the slideshow -- I wouldn't have done so.) But it is important to keep things in perspective. Marni is wearable, but not by many. Pugh -- I just don't see most of those amazing pieces hitting the streets. (But I'm going to see the collection in his Paris showroom, maybe that will change my mind. And when I have a second, I'll google that video too.)

I heard yesterday that Alexander McQueen has broken even. Just broken even. He is the poster boy for bad-boy London fashion and a role model for many, but had he not been under the wing of a somewhat benevolent corporate parent that means he would have had to find the means to support his label himself, over these many years. Equal talents have not been able to do it.

I am all for experimentation and creativity but if a designer wants to be a designer and not an artist then they have to strike a balance by tossing in a few things people, a lot of people (although not everyone), can wear. Or they need to marry rich.