Report by Clare Coulson, Fashion Features Director, Harper’s Bazaar
Photography by catwalking.com
It was fitting that Christopher Bailey chose to move his Burberry show to Kensington Gardens this season – the vast marquee was a stone’s throw from the stamping grounds of the original Chelsea girls who inspired his collection. With Dusty Springfield’s You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me on the soundtrack, Bailey kicked off with a parade of fabulous outerwear – clean-cut coats in Sixties silhouettes, in tangerine, scarlet, lime and Wedgwood blue, before moving into skinny-rib knits and figure-hugging black flares or beatnik pants and cropped jackets in oversized plaids. Nubbly tweeds in moss green and earthy browns followed along with glossy black fur coats, trimmed with patent leather, while the Burberry trench was reworked in a cream Aran knit with black leather trims. Leave it to Bailey to give us one of Fashion Week’s sweetest moments: as his flock of Chelsea girls took to the catwalk for their finale, faux snow tumbled down from the roof-top as each girl walked out in a cream beret and a clear plastic cape.
