Burberry hits London Fashion Week
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Update time : 2021-03-01
Models show off Burberry Prorsum's spring/summer 2016 collection at London Fashion Week on Monday. Photo: IC
British fashion heavyweight Burberry Prorsum summoned a biker spirit as it presented the spring/summer 2016 collection at London Fashion Week on Monday.Models wearing leather jackets over fine lace dresses paraded in front of a star-studded audience, in a marriage of the delicate and the powerful.
Burberry's chief creative officer Christopher Bailey had treated fans to a sneak preview of the collection on Snapchat on Sunday, ahead of the show at Kensington Gardens, close to the iconic Royal Albert Hall.
Among the hundreds of guests in the church-like glass venue were actress Sienna Miller, supermodels Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne and Vogue chief Anna Wintour.
Soul singer Alison Moyet - accompanied by a symphony orchestra - kicked off the ambitious and eclectic show with four songs live from the catwalk.
The lambskin biker jackets - made at a British factory famed for creating army uniforms since the 18th century - featured ornate goldwork cording and metal detailing and were "influenced by twentieth century motoring styles," according to the company.
Earlier in the day, Serbian designer Roksanda Ilincic helped transform Marylebone's Seymour Leisure Centre into a dream world of geometric shapes.
Her show was marked by long, fluid dresses that glided down to the ankles in soft, almost pastel tones of blue, white and purple.
The soft-cut designs, which included jumpsuits and a transparent coat with black bands, were conceived with comfort in mind, giving both freedom of movement and of expression.