London Fashion Week: The Daily

He claimed it was daywear, but if Emilio de la Morena’s sexy, body-con, intricately constructed dresses are anything to go by, Morena women don’t do daywear. With Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Tallulah Harlech in his front row and Lana Del Rey on the soundtrack, this Spanish designer’s sole distraction seems to be party dresses for pretty girls. They were just as good as ever, with panels of chiffon fanned in every direction upwards from the waist, often cut away to show off as much bare flesh as possible, with light organza full skirts bouncing out around the thighs below them and cut away at each side to show the body-con version beneath. Mustard yellow and nude body-stocking knits had sweet polo-shirt collars, in what was presumably a daytime version of the same – still sexy enough for a pre-watershed warning, but somehow we believed in Morena’s more demure determination, as he attempted to distract us with panels of multicoloured scribble prints or sumptuous bursts of buttercup yellow and peacock blue.