Good for Henry Holland. In the past year, he has seen his business move from a shoe-cupboard of a studio to one ten times the size, and he recently signed a two-year global deal with Pretty Polly. There’s a confidence boost evident in this, his most strong and assured collection – a pure facsimile of Seventies fashion. A collection this Seventies could only have been created by someone born in the Eighties – Henry is a 1983 kid. We saw pale denim bellbottom flares adorned with patchwork leather stars, a flecky jumper with aqua-blue banana-leaf-print flares, and Charlotte Olympia platforms. Copious amounts of gold chain mail and fitted shift dresses in purple or apple-green leaf-print provided the disco moment. “It started with Seventies, Studio 54 and Xanadu,” said Holland, “and got more Joan Collins. This collection is bright, fun and young with it, but not as young as before,” he added. This is a good thing. Henry Holland is growing up, and his super-fans (nearly 100,000 Twitter followers and counting) are growing up, too.
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