If anyone was in doubt that the Seventies are the mega-trend in the making for S/S 11, then the Topshop Unique show was the decider. Following Marc Jacobs’ homage to Seventies icons Marisa Berenson, Anjelica Huston and Marie Helvin in New York, Topshop saluted the decade’s more psychedelic side. “It was a bit Stevie Nicks… like, of course,” shrugged Unique stylist Katie Grand. She was referring to both the show music and the fringed capes, bell-sleeved chiffon blousons, sliced billowing kaftans, jumpsuits and skinny bellbottoms with hippie-trippy prints of Pegasus (solarised orange print), fairies (black and white, hand-drawn) and flowers (blurred red/orange watercolours). “It was also a bit Joan Jett, and Jerry Hall in Roxy Music days.” With hair and make-up straight from a Helmut Newton shoot, mirrored aviators, fringed bags and Plexiglas platforms, this show felt like the adrenalin shot London Fashion Week needed. Here’s an unusual thing: I expect to see women of 30-plus wearing this – and the crystal-studded, tight mini-dresses – on a red carpet soon. And from a high-street brand, no less.
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