Richard Nicoll AW12 Video
As promised, here's my inside scoop from Richard Nicoll's AW12 presentation which I filmed for Vodafone VIP
Osman AW12 at LFW
My last show on Day 4 with Vodafone VIP was Osman. Osman AW11 featured some of my fave pieces I've ever seen at LFW and there was one lady in the Osman audience wearing one of the AW11 fur jackets, it took a LOT of willpower not to wrestle her to the floor for it.
Osman's inspirations for the AW12 collection were “The autochrome plates of Albert Kahn’s collection of the Balkans”. And I have to admit that as excited as I was, I wasn't too impressed with the show. Everyone around me loved it, but I just can't get excited by brocade, I've never been able to, let alone floral brocade designs.
There was actually a lot of florals being used in AW12 collections across LFW, which is quite unusual, but I'm not a massive fan unless toughened up with leather. Speaking of leather, the leather at Osman was beautiful - as you will see in my top looks below...
Mark Fast AW12 at LFW
I've enjoyed Mark Fast's LFW shows ever since I started working with Vodafone VIP many moons ago. His knitted dresses need to be seen to be believed, it shouldn't really possible for wool to be so sexy.
Mark's inspirations for the AW12 collection were “Dance, craft and the Batakari.” (Batakari being Ghanaian smocks, in case you can't be bothered to Google it)
It was a collection of greys, beiges and soft soft dusty pink. Kinda like ballet school colours.
I took some nice pics all on my own Mommy!
Christopher Kane AW12 at LFW
I'm really behind with my LFW posts - eeeek! But anyway, Monday's highlight was Christopher Kane. It seems like ages ago that I was at One New Change sat behind Alexa Chung and Laura Bailey watching leather clad models in midnight blues, dark reds, black pinstripe and purples. But it wasn't that long ago. LFW just makes your brain melt.
Here are some rubbishy pictures I took, because pictures are easier to post than words...
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Richard Nicoll Exclusive VVIP Show
It was all about Richard Nicoll for me yesterday! So after getting the exclusive first blogger look at his re-charging tote bag, then seeing his wonderful AW12 collection yesterday afternoon and interviewing the man himself, I headed back to Somerset House to see Richard's pre-fall collection and a SS12 re-cap in an exclusive show for Vodafone VIP customers.
As every single member of last night's Richard Nicoll audience was a lucky Vodafone VIP winner, you can see why it's worth signing up for Vodafone VIP (it's free!) if you are a Vodafone customer. Vodafone run comps like this all the time for VIP members. It's totes free for Vodafone customers and as well as fashion competitions and exclsuive discounts, there are all sorts of fun offers and comps across festivals and Formula 1 too. (You can sign up here.)
It was a fabulous night and I was front row I managed to get LOTS of pics. See my fave looks below...
Richard Nicoll AW12 at LFW
One of the best things about working with Vodafone VIP is that Vodafone have an amazing partnership with Richard Nicoll. They worked together across Spring Summer 12 (Richard Nicoll's SS12 collection was one of my absolute highlights last season, see pics and video here) and collaborated during Vogue's Fashion Night Out. The partnership has continued into AW12 and yesterday morning Richard unveiled the (quite frankly unbelievable) re-charging tote bag he designed that splendidly fuses technology and design. I was priviledged enough to get the first look at it, as you can read about here. And then later yesterday evening Richard showed his pre-Fall collection at an exclusive show at Somerset House for Vodafone VIP customers. It was awesome, as you may have seen from my tweets...and as you will see from the blog post I shall write immediately after this.
But back to yesterday morning! Richard chose not to do a traditional catwalk show, but to host a more intimate presentation of the AW12 collection. This was a an amazing way to present the collection, models walked around a catwalk for three hours and press and buyers dropped in and out. Backstage and 'front stage' were all one space, with make-up etc going on right in front of us. The entire collection was on rails around the walls so we could touch/feel/examine the pieces up close. Oh and they were shooting their lookbook whilst all this was going on too - well why not? The models are already there dolled up and dressed up and ready to be snapped!
I spoke to Richard and he was really excited about presenting in this more intimate and relaxed format - the interview was filmed for Vodafone so I'll be posting it here as sooooon as I have it, but won't give it all away now. One thing I did love though was that Richard is calling the fab colours in the collection after industrial-esque names - 'hazard orange' and 'safety yellow' for example. LOVE.
The inspirations for the AW12 collection were “Woody Allen's 1978 film Interiors, commercial pragmatism and purity.”
The collection really is wearable, which is the point of it really. It's practical and all the pieces can be combined together to get lots of different looks. A wardrobe that works for you, if you will.
There's video to follow but here are some of the pics I took yesterday...
Richard Nicoll Re-Charging Tote Bag
This tote is TOTES amaze. (I've been waiting weeks to say that).
Ever fancied a designer handbag that can charge your mobile devices? Well wait til you see what Richard Nicoll has designed with Vodafone! I got the exclusive first view of this fabulous (and bloody clever) bag this morning. Read on for all the deets...
Richard Nicoll has been working closely with Vodafone since last season and this morning he revealed his re-charging tote bag. I was estatic to be invited along by Vodafone VIP this morning to see bethe first to see the bag for myself and try it out.
I am addicted to my iPhone and my incessant tweeting/emailing/working from it means that I'm constantly draining the battery - it's the bane of my life. So a bag like this is just what I need! And I suspect more than a few of you would say the same. (The reaction on Twitter certaily seems to indicate a huge interest in this bag!)
The bag I pawed over today is a working prototype and the final product will be revealed later in the Spring, but even this version blew my mind. The geek in me loved to see technology and fashion so slickly merged together. I often carry clunky/ugly re-chargable devices for my iPhone, but none take the form of a handbag! I'm pretty certain this is a world first. The fact you'd actually want to carry around this re-chargeable device is definitely a world first!
So what exactly IS this bag?!
Issa London AW12 Collection at LFW
For my last show of Day 2 at LFW with Vodafone VIP it was the show I was looking forward to most - Issa London.
The Issa London SS12 show was probably my fave show of last season. Actually, it definitely was. And based on previous blown-away-impressiveness I was obvs excited for this show anyway, but when I read that the inspirations for the AW12 collection were “Trans-Siberian journey, From Russia with Love and Russian Tsars” - I was EXTRA excited. What was not to love about that kinda theme? I wanted traditional Issa glamour with extra fur and Bond Girl appeal. I wasn't disappointed.
There wasn't an appearance from K-Mid but we did have a real life Bond Girl in the frot row - Gemma Arterton - and what seemed like half of London crammed into the BFC Show Space. It was completely rammed in there.
Still, that didn't take away from the fact that once again Daniella sent stunning, elegant, sexy, womanly designs down the runway. And brilliant bouncy glam hair, it should be noted.
Issa always gets the best reaction from my followers on Twitter (probably because it's fashionable and beautiful and womanly without even the teeniest hint of 'fash twat' appeal) and these were my top ten looks...
