This mother and daughter duo behind PLAKINGER offers a line of clothing that is highly luxurious with undertones of easiness. Their vision is to create silhouettes that bring together feminine classics and elements of traditional men tailoring, catering to women who are daring but with class, which comes through from their choice of palette and cut details.
"Power is like a lady ... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
Girly tulle and diaphanous fantasy is embodied in the designs by East London British designer Molly Goddard who once again melted out hearts as she shined through the BFC courtyard show space at Somerset House during London Fashion Week. Her work thematically describes coming of age and nostalgia taking inspiration from party dresses and Sunday best through clothes that are conflicted with the beauty of her delicate technique and a charming awkwardness of her fabric combinations and poofy silhouettes.
She is a young bright thing, only just graduating from an MA at Central Saint Martins in 2012 and loves to show off her arts heritage. For her AW15 presentation, we were treated to models clad in beautiful ball gowns in the middle of a life drawing session. The street-cast gang of girls actively being creative and generally just having fun is a truly refreshing mode of positive fashion display. We can’t wait to see what she does next.
Dina Khalife’s line of clothing and accessories speak to individuals who are looking for a different kind of sex appeal. That certain confidence that women usually associate with plunging necklines and side cut-outs, are interpreted into colourful hand drawn textiles. It could be quite unforgiving, but her prints seem to flatter different body types, which some designers might be reclusive of.
The great thing about The Swimmers collection is that it's not entirely all dresses. To introduce separates makes it more versatile and less retro.
So often are we told by fashion and lifestyle magazines the 'rules' on how to dress appropriately for our body shapes.
It can be both a confusing and intimidating experience but new book ‘Women in Clothes’ aims to change this by embracing the complexity of women’s style decisions in a contemporary zine-like conversational tone spanning hundreds of voices, movers and shakers whom contributed include Tavi Gevison, Lena Dunham and Molly Ringwald.
Using photography, interviews, illustrations and personal testimonies, we are led through fashion journeys that are insightful, sometimes strange, often funny and completely relatable turning style into a truly open dialogue.
