The Fashion Industry Gathered At Downing Street To Hear From The Prime Minister On The 40th Anniversary Of LFW

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After Daniel Lee’s blockbuster Burberry show closed out a season that brought us mayo bags, mums on the moodboard and Harry Styles’s freshly shorn mullet (a million miles from that lone “mysterious tent” that materialised outside the Commonwealth Institute all those years ago), designers and editors decamped to Number 10, where new Prime Minister...

When the first London Fashion Week took place 40 years ago , Margaret Thatcher was practically part of the furniture in Downing Street, just half way through her decade-long grip on power. Sarah Mower – observing in 1984 as a baffled bystander rather than the seasoned Vogue critic she is today – recalls witnessing a “great gang of people charging the catwalk in parachute-silk shirts with flying tails, cotton-drill utility trousers and, as I remember it, Dunlop plimsolls”.

He touched on many of those issues in his speech to guests including London designers Simone Rocha, Erdem Moralıoğlu, Nicholas Daley, Christopher Kane, Harris Reed and Dame Zandra Rhodes, as well as the legendary make-up artist Pat McGrath and supermodel Naomi Campbell.

 

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