London Fashion Week: The Daily

Did I really need to go to the Burberry Prorsum show? Did any of us? I mean, Christopher Bailey and team Burberry (or should that be @Burberry, its Twitter handle has almost 532,000  followers) streamed the show live, and tweeted images of each look before it hit the runway. So, essentially, my assistant had a better view watching from our office. But she said she felt like
a voyeur, whereas I was present and liking what I saw. The Burberry message for S/S 12 can be measured with a coat: next season the trench is full-skirted with a Peruvian-inspired textile belt. Or is it cut into a cropped parka? There were colour-blocked raffia caps with pompom tops, wicker platform shoes, great bobbly knits and raffia totes with leather edging. Overblown textures and textiles were very much the order of the day, with batik and African weaves on coats; and the pencil skirts were sex on legs. The only jarring note was that this was a Spring and Summer collection…