A Cykic Review "Thank God for London's Katrantzou"

This is what I'm talking about. Mary Katrantzou kept her vision true to her design aesthetic, but brought in new motifs, fabrications and silhouettes. She delved into pants and knits while still staying genuine to her signature ornate dresses. Katrantzou found inspiration in household items using clothes hangers and rotary dials in her prints. Genius, I know. She took it one step further collaborating with embroidery house Lesage resulting in surreal creations, such as hundreds of yellow eraser-tipped pencils sewn onto a tulip-shaped skirt of a silk dress. The girl can do no wrong.


I expect Anna Dello Russo to purchase a majority of the collection and style it straight off the runway since she can't seem to put her designer ensembles together effortlessly.
*Cykic

London's Best

I've NEVER been FuLLy soLd on London Fashion Week but these Top 3 FrontRunners (in my book) with the addition of Mr. Christopher Kane, I was pleasantly surprised and delightfully satisfied.

Christopher Bailey isn't one to usually delve in pRinTs, but he juXtaposed patterns to a T. I'm dying (literally) for the outerwear and shoes, mostly the outerwear, but the shoes would be a nice addition.

Remember how I mentioned fLoraLs have taken FULL reign on the Spring 2012 collections?  You may as well call Mary Katrantzou array of siLhoueTTes an ArBoReTuM. They're magnificent and I have no doubt that Anna Dello Russo and me (hopefully) will be purchasing these bLosSomed beauties.

I remember the first time I came across a Peter Pilotto dress.  Meredith Melling Burke of Vogue US was wearing a picTuresQue silhouette by Mr. Pilotto and I quickly stopped her to find out where I would be making my neXt purchase. These three outfits reminded me of a modern day Alice in Wonderland and I'm going to fall down Pilotto's rabbit hole.

There's still one more day of London Shows, but I felt confident that these are beTTeR than the rest.

Maybe someone will prove me wrong tomorrow.

Doubt it.

*Cykic