Report by Eilidh Macaskill, Editor, InStyle
Photography by catwalking.com
It takes a lot to get the fashion and celebrity contingent up on a Sunday morning. It takes Mulberry. Piling into Claridge’s Ballroom, decked out like an In the Night Garden for adults – all stuffed foxes, birds, trees and tiny stars – the audience included Gemma Arterton, Rebecca Hall, Rosamund Pike, Nicholas Hoult and Kirsten Dunst. Emma Hill’s clothes are becoming as compelling as her bags. For autumn she worked a dreamy silhouette: tiered chiffon maxi skirts, their vague Holly Hobbie vibe tempered by the layering over of a belted washed- leather jacket, a spongy leather sheepskin duffel, a green knitted pompom scarf. Necks were demure in highly buttoned lilac and soft sage shirt dresses with pleated skirts. The footwear? Fabulous patent knee-high wedges, which heralded the demise of our current obsession with ankle boots. And, ah, the bags: boxy satchels in patent, suede and wool, occasionally scaled down to balance the chiffon maxi evening dresses. All in all, Mulberry will be thriving sales-wise for a long time yet.
