CLEMENTS RIBEIRO: A FAMILY WARDROBE, A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DECADES

You could say it's only expected of Suzanne and Inácio to send print on print down the catwalk season on season. But what we saw from them in Clements Ribeiro's spring/summer 2013 collection is something more authentic than your usual retro and vintage looks.

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DAVID KOMA: A COURT CASE

His inspiration was the female tennis player - and, looking at the bold graphic beauties he created for this collection, I can understand why the tennis dress is given a new lease of life at least once every decade. 

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CHRISTOPHER KANE: FRANKIE GOES TO LONDON

... and makes beautiful clothes. During London Fashion Week, Christopher was quoted saying the inspiration came from the nuts and bolts of Frankenstein... but the clothes, despite some slits and fastenings (OK, taping, too), bear nothing too literal of that Dr-Frankie-story aesthetic, thank goodness.

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MOSCHINO CHEAP & CHIC: FLIP THE TRACK BRING THE OLD SCHOOL BACK

This is how we do it, AlunaGeorge perform Montell Jordan's classic as a laid-back R&B tune, but don't let that fool you when it comes to the clothes, unless it reminds you of the retro vibe of the early 1990s. Was this how you did it?

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BURBERRY PRORSUM: NO FLOWERS, NO SHOWERS

In the show space by Royal Albert Hall, the mood was set by season-neutral, cartoon-like dream of a London silhouette, a sepia-toned live postcard with a flag flapping in the wind...

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KTZ: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS

There is always hope. Thanks to KTZ, prints are no slaves to Flatland anymore. While all the gothic, baroque lace-meets-leather could have belonged to the previous couple of seasons, with a dark magic that's possibly the most explicit of all, there was a twist that was something more, much more than that. 

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MARY KATRANTZOU: MIND-BLOWING MARY DOES IT AGAIN

Halfway recovered from the shock of that show-stopping, jaw-dropping beauty attack, I was quickly flipping through the images on the laptop when I heard a discreet pop from behind me - his eyes, no doubt - and the exclamation: those are reeeal-ly goo-ood!

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TOPSHOP UNIQUE: 2013: A SPACE ODYSSEY

First thing's first: Topshop, I'm in love with your retro sci-fi Show Space. The most fashion-forward of the Great British High Street never fails to put down its unique stamp, not just in high street retail but fashion design in general. Nomen est omen.

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JASPER CONRAN: BRIGHTER YOUNGER THINGS

Uh-oh. What do we have here? Where has the soft, delicate, perfectly groomed lady of the previous seasons gone? 

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HOUSE OF HOLLAND: DON'T YOU KILL MY 'BUZZ KILL'

I can't think of one better among designers of bold, punchy, cheeky, modern, print-propelled AND instantly wearable clothing than Henry Holland. And while the statement held up absolutely as next spring's collection took off with a diagonal check colourblock suit to set the mood, it couldn't prepare me for what came next.

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CORRIE NIELSEN: HOTHOUSE, FLOWERS

“My SS13 collection has a strong botanical influence - taken from observance of fauna at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The collection will feature my trademark sculptural shapes, and that’s about all that I can give away… You’ll have to come to the show!”

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TODD LYNN: TO THE HEART OF DARKNESS

At the show, Todd revealed his starting point was Heart of Darkness, a Joseph Conrad novella from 1902 in which, the narrator of the story, and Englishman, becomes the captain of a trading river boat in Belgian Africa, to discover during his journey three levels of darkness...

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KINDER AGGUGINI: HOME BY THE SEA

I don't think it's appropriate to try and unlock the secret of Kinder, or the overwhelming effect of his work on me. But without a conscious glimpse, you might be tempted to label anything and everything I say as mindless gushing. Well, I've got a mind all right. And you have to see this.

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DAKS: FRESH ABSTRACTIONS

And so London Fashion Week for spring/summer 2013 kicks off!

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