UNIQUE, C'EST CHIC

Right now I am in London for the final two days of Fashion Week - storming in fresh just as everyone else is on their last legs - but I couldn't resist sharing these images from yesterday's Topshop Unique show. I'm not into trends anymore but Unique manage to create a sugary pink 90s look that is super cool without screaming fashion victim. I am so utterly in love with this pink sequin midi skirt; I say this a lot but it is what my dreams are made of and I really, really hope it gets produced for retail. Imagine it with a Wildfox tee! Or the cream fluffy knit above! Or, you know, just as it was styled on the runway with an oversized leather bomber.

And can we discuss the sequinned jumpsuit Jourdan wore to close the show? Like liquid metal gliding along the runway.

Too cool.

NEXT SUMMER'S UNIFORM

The big guns of fashion (that's your Chanels, Diors, and the like) may show at Paris Fashion Week, but there is one trés Parisienne designer who has proved time and time again to exercise greater influence than those veritable fashion dinosaurs, on everyone's wardrobe, from the off-duty model to the on-duty mum. Isabel Marant - creator of the wedge sneaker, purveyor of the colourful loose knit, and catalyst for the explosion of the baseball jacket - showed today in Paris, and you better start studying this collection hard - fast - if you want to hit the ground running for spring/summer '13. The formula is the same - one part bohemian to two parts cowgirl, with a whole load of nonchalance - it's just the lustworthy pieces are new and fresh in a way that only Marant can manage.

On my list? It's got to be Aymeline's short sleeved embellished jacket and Kati's cut-out playsuit. Inevitable sell-outs, this will of course forever be only a wish-list..

  Images style.com and Into The Gloss

LFW SS13 DAY FIVE: ASHISH

Don't let my fantastic Ashish photos fool you. I wasn't in the photographer's pit, the front row, or even in the same room... I was simply in the Canon Cinema (or the Cinema of Rejects, coined by Gemma Satire) watching the show live, developing more of an urge to wear sequin socks with Reebok Classics as it went on. I'm not sure how I feel about remembering a retro trend the first time around, but it's probably not a good thing. Mr Gupta hit the mood just right with the sporty white, grey, and denim collection, with his signature sequins covering just one aspect of the garments - one leg, one arm, or one side.

I certainly am très fatigué, as evidenced by my terrible posture and spotty face in these photos, so this post will be kept relatively short and sweet. Check out the pictures of Tata Naka's pool party, Nova Chiu's silk prints, and the last of the week's street style in the fading sunshine.

London, it's been unreal. See you next season.

LFW SS13 DAY FOUR: PAM HOGG

Last season I queued up in the freezing cold to get into the Pam Hogg show, ultimately to be turned away due to a full-to-bust venue. The show that got away, if you like. This year I was determined to get in, despite knowing it would be even harder work considering Lady Mary Charteris's choice of Hogg wedding dress last month. My heart was in my mouth as I got closer to the entrance this evening but I was one of very few standing ticket holders to be allowed in. Hoorah!

The collection was entitled "Save Our Souls", so I can only assume the flimsily-clad nurses at the beginning of the show were fully qualified in soul first aid. Inventive spandex bodysuits are Pam Hogg's thing - and a thing she does very well indeed, though they're sadly not particularly wearable for us normos (Manchester may be an open-minded city but I would still get a few funny looks, and the rest, walking around Sainsbury's in one of the geometric suits. Might be alright for Canal Street mind) - but wedding attire was clearly at the forefront of her mind when creating this collection, with tulle confections smattering the runway, complete with Elizabeth I-esque headpieces. Granted they'd have to be tweaked before you ever went near a church in them - there's nipples and side-boobs galore - but at least you wouldn't look like a sickly meringue.

Check out Alice Dellal modelling for Pam, plus Jo Wood, Kate Nash, and Jaime Winstone (sat next to Charlotte Gush - that girl is smashing it) on the front row. Most shows at fashion week are full of wearable collections, of which you think "that was nice.. but where's the imagination?" The Pam Hogg show was a real show and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. To phrase it in a rather twattish Grazia way, this show was definitely my fashion moment of the season.

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LFW SS13: DAY THREE

I know I've been harping on about a clean, minimal look for SS13, but after seeing my first show of the day - Ekaterina Kukhareva - I know what I'll be wearing next year. Brightly coloured, peace-and-love-inspired geometric knits, in sexy silhouettes.. basically the Missonis on acid, dancing around an Ibizan beach in the 1970s. Best start working on my summer bod now if I want to look like that.

Today I drank a very interesting but tasty cocktail in the One Aldwych hotel, snatched a moment with the ridiculously cool Charlotte Free (be still my beating heart.. that's basically my ideal outfit), and met the infamous Sugarpuff. He was devastated that he hadn't been street-style-snapped today so I promised I'd feature his outfit on my blog - fed up of not being able to find suitably funky clothing he's taken to customising suits and embellishing his shoes.

We're over Fashion Week's hump day and everyone is starting to tire. Two more days to go, better make the most of it!