Member Feedback on LFW winter 2006

Members Feedback on LFW winter 2006

From Alexandra Girard:

I hadn’t been back to the London Fashion Week for 5 years so I surely expected the scene to have changed but was surprised when I actually discovered it hadn’t.

As an outsider now, this is funny to see that there is more show (off) on the audience side than on the catwalk, but hey, this is London: talk about S.T.Y.L.E ! Too many looks kill looks, though: so many posers and hard triers are a bit annoying. But what do I know? I am French!

The usual suspects are still in practice: I am referring to the old fashion journos who dress in ridiculous attire, and go ecstatic over garment gibberish as long as it is designer: I just wonder on what grounds they are entitled to make statements about clothes really, when you see the look of them…

Anyway, enough foul mouthing: in the novelty family, the most interesting stuff was probably the B-Rude show, Boy George’s brand, which featured unisex prêt-à-porter for fall/winter 06 coming in all shapes of “revisited classics”, tongue-in-cheek items ranging from naughty gal school dress, consisting of an all-buttocks-on-show kilt (how British indeed!) only wearable as a belt, lots of typically punkish symbols like safety pins, grenades (I predict the golden grenade-shaped bag will be a hit among fashionistas) and sexy underwear for men: laced cotton corsets (very Jean-Paul Gaultier), an army green all-in-one body stocking worn by V. sexy black model, and many flashes of day-glo colours reminding that the 80’s nostalgia is still big, unfortunately.

All I can say is that if Boy George did at least choose fabrics and models himself, he was clever on that one.

Finally, this collection’s lesson was that there is nothing new under the sun: camouflage has become so mainstream it is actually very pc, jeans are an adopted-by-all uniform, make-up is getting bolder (as opposed to the nude trend, how original!) but if Top Shop had come up with this kind of stuff, certainly nobody would have noticed.

The after-show drinks took place at the ex-has-been-hype-again Met Bar, featuring a New York MC rapping with style and humour to the beat of some hip tune (“Sex & Drugs & Rock’n Roll”). Tina Barrett, ex-S club 7 member, was low-profilely attending, as well as drags, transvestites, wannabes, groupies and staff from the LFW. “Boy” was quite friendly to this sympathetic crowd, really down-to-earth for a pop icon and quite polite for a “rude boy”.


The after-show party was held at the Too 2 Much club in Soho, nice one!

www.b-rude.com
The B-rude show took place at the BFC tent, Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, on the 18th February 2K6.
Axel Gibraltar was here!