LFW S/S 11 Highlight: Mary Katrantzou's Lampshade Skirts

With London Fashion Week A/W 11 almost upon us and therefore in the forefront on our minds (of course, like, when isn’t it!?), I have been thinking about my highlight from S/S 11. After thinking long and hard about this, there were several contenders to the London Fashion Week Swarowski jewelled crown.

The shortlist included Julien Macdonald’s sexy, sheer collection , the pure shock and hilarity of Janice Dickenson flashing at the LOVE Magazine party, Erdem’s picturesque open air theatre setting and his beautiful floral collection, the 70s revival at Giles and the Mary Katrantzou lampshade skirts.

The winner is...Mary Katrantzou’s lampshade skirts. Who would have thought that our favourite everyday household appliance could be transformed into this? Katrantzou mused: "With this collection, I wanted to put the room on the woman, rather than the woman in the room." Mary, we salute you!

London Fashion Week Highlights

With Paris Fashion Week done and dusted, it marks the end of the S/S 11 international fashion weeks. From the hundreds of shows we have seen several strong trends emerge from stripes to seventies, prints to neon brights.

I attended London Fashion Week this year and it is the home of the young, daring, and exciting designer, and we saw that with neon brights from Christopher Kane, a seventies retro collection from House of Holland and an interior inspired show from Mary Katrantzou.

Christopher Kane neon brights, S/S 11.

House of Holland seventies style, S/S 11.

Mary Katrantzou interior inspired, S/S 11.

It’s hard to pick my favourite show of the week but amongst my highlights were Mary Katrantzou’s lampshade skirt, Holly Fulton’s geometric prints, ISSA’s jewel colours, Julien Macdonald’s super-sexy sheer dresses and Erdem’s incredible al fresco show space, making it a fantastic week!

Mary Katrantzou lampshade skirt, S/S 11.

Holly Fulton geometric prints, S/S 11.

ISSA jewel colours, S/S 11.

Julien Macdonald super sexy sheer dresses, S/S 11.

Erdem al fresco show space, S/S 11.