Tempest and Doii: The Perfect Shot

Catwalk photographer Christopher Dadey has created a great catalogue of catwalk shots from two of our top shows, William Tempest and Doii. Each show is perfectly documented in this easy to use image gallery, so if you missed a look, or want to review your favourite floor length, all singing, all dancing, catwalk number, then search no more, this site has it all!

Fiona Anderson

F-Tape Auction: Artwork by Gemma Slack and Dean Quinn

Artwork by Dean Quinn

Artwork by Gemma Slack

The fabulous designers, Gemma Slack and Dean Quinn, have pushed their sketch pads aside, dusted off their easels and gone all high brow on us as part of an arty project run by F-Tape. Collaborating with the equally fabulous Volt magazine and Swarovski CRYSTALLIZED, Hannah Marshall, Craig Lawrence, Holly Fulton, Katie Eary, Fred Butler and Manjit Deu also join Slack and Quinn in the project, whereby each designer has customised an oversized, uber chic cover of the much loved magazine, Volt, in their signature aesthetic.

Be it minimal and modern, embellished up to the gills, or manipulated and moulded into an entirely new image, the result is a stunning array of crystal encrusted, super sparkly, one off art pieces, and the good news is you can now get your mitts of them! The exquisite art works are now being auctioned live on F-Tape, giving you the chance to keep a piece of your favourite, most innovative designer up on your wall.

The auction ends of Monday, so let the frenzied, fashion-loving, bidding wars begin!

Fiona Anderson

Jasper Garvida: Up Close and Personal

Check out these detail shots from Jasper Garvida’s show, found on the style blog, Park and Cube. We especially loved the uber chunky, deliciously ostentatious, shiny, gold zip pulls, with Jasper's name proudly emblazoned across them. In a time when the label-less, American Apparel aesthetic is top banana, this wonderful display of pure, unapologetic luxe was utterly, absolutely fabulously, gorgeous.  See more from the show here. 

Fiona Anderson

Ones to Watch: Behind the Scenes

These fabulous shots were taken backstage at our Ones To Watch show by Natalia Ilina.  With stunning attention to detail and fun, original composition, we love Ilina's fresh approach.  To have a look at the rest of her work, check out her website here. 

Fiona Anderson

Susie Bubble Interviews Dean Quinn

Queen of fashion blogging, Susie Bubble, has interviewed the lovely Dean Quinn for Dazed Digital. The quick fire questioning delves into the inspiration behind Quinn’s intricate bead work and detailed aesthetic which dominated his highly embellished collection this season. Offering up an interesting insight into this charismatic young designer, we reckon it’s well worth a read.

Fiona Anderson

Jacob Kimmie Illustrations in Amelia's Magazine

We spied these lovely illustrations of the Jacob Kimmie show, on the website for Amelia’s Magazine. Drawn by Gemma Milly, the images show the vast amount of craftsmanship involved in Kimmie’s beautiful collection, as well as being accompanied by an interesting show review, too.

Fiona Anderson

Sport Relief: Kate Moss wears William Tempest, as seen in today's Metro

Ultimate fashion icon, Kate Moss, has been snapped wearing a stunning, futuristic, strapless dress from William Tempest’s AW10 collection for Sport Relief. The dress, partially made from recycled mosquito nets, is part of a charity shoot aimed at raising money for the Malaria No More campaign, whereby giving just £5 can buy someone a life-saving mosquito net. It’s great to see one of our fabulous designers using their talent for such a worthwhile cause, to learn more about the campaign, click here.

Fiona Anderson

Desperate Housewives star wears Sado

Maiara Walsh, the super stunning, wayward teen from Desperate Housewives, certainly wasn’t playing the rebellious adolescent card at the Ernest Borgnine pre-Oscar party last week. Opting for a sleek, simple and oh-so-pretty Sado number in antique cream hues, it was the perfect choice for the gorgeous young star. Oozing easy glamour and relaxed sexiness in a slouchy, off the shoulder cut and statement necklace, Walsh clearly has an eye for chilled out, sun-kissed style. Pure perfection.

Fiona Anderson

Suzy Amis Cameron Wears Prophetik at the Global Green pre-Oscar party

Prophetik, who rocked the Freemasons’ Hall during Fashion Week with their live band, have again found themselves in the spotlight. At this year’s Global Green 7th annual pre-Oscar party, held on the 3rd March, the ethically minded Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of Avatar director James Cameron) chose to wear a stunning creation by the eco-label, Prophetik. Accompanied by her husband, Suzy was there to promote her campaign and competition, Red Carpet Green Dress, a charitable organisation which promotes sustainable design.

The black, silk, backless dress with bronze lining was straight off the AW 10 catwalk and the perfect choice for such a high glamour event, showing that environmentally friendly fashion is stylish, edgy and fabulous!

Fiona Anderson

Kelly Osbourne wears Chelsea Rebelle to Elton John's Charity Party At Soho House, Hollywood 2010

We’re loving Kelly Osbourne's new fashion forward look! Pictured here wearing the gorgeous ‘Glitter’ dress from Chelsea Rebelle’s SS10 collection to Elton John's party on March 4th, the frock looks like a million stars scattered across the heavens. Very fitting for what was a star-studded bash - click here to see who else was there.

Hannah Kane

Postcard from Paris: Iris Van Herpen

Use three words to describe your collection: Movement, metallic, elegance.

Glasses of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: Yesterday evening quite a lot.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: Lots, they don’t have them like that in Holland!

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Show my work to more people in much closer detail.

Favourite thing to do in Paris: Just walking around randomly to discover things.

Emma Drinnan

Postcard from Paris: Lidija & Dejan

Use three words to describe your collection: Sensual, empowering and luxurious

Glasses of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: I don't really count but we a few glasses of wine every night.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: Not many

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Meeting buyers, press and designers.

Favourite thing to do in Paris: To walk really, everything is close in Paris and there are so many little shops to discover.

This season's highlight: Getting an order, it's our first season trying to sell and we got orders!

Emma Drinnan

Postcard from Paris: Bryce Aime

Use three words to describe your collection: Futuristic ancient Egypt.

Glasses of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: Not much really I’m quite good.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: The normal amount a French man should have which is a croissant in the morning.

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Being part of Paris during Fashion Week. We had buyers which is great.

Favourite thing to do in Paris: I'm from here, so seeing my friends and family, but I have been living in London for the past 12 years.

This season's highlight: Probably the fact we have produced a collection when we had so many problems at the start. The whole experience of fashion weeks were amazing. At the end of last year we opened a shop which was my favourite achievement really. 

Postcard from Paris: Yan To

Use three words to describe your collection: Pragmatic sexual submersion.

Units of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: None but a lot of cans of Pepsi Max.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: Not had one, don’t really eat during these shows it makes me too tired.

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Meeting contacts and the other designers. It’s my first time here and its been a great starting point experience.

Favourite thing to do in Paris: Anything as long as you are with your partner. It’s so many different things to so many different people.

This season's highlight: Delivering my first piece from my AW collection to a customer.

Emma Drinnan

Postcard from Paris: Omer Asim

Use three words to describe your collection: Anti-modern, post-modern and pre-modern.

Glasses of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: Only three.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: Five. I would have had more if I could have got my hands on more.

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Being in Paris for the first time, everyone here is lovely and we have had good people through the doors, especially for the first season.

This season's highlight: On Thursday morning at 9am I finished and had a moment to think. 

Emma Drinnan

Postcard from Paris: Viking Wong

Use three words to describe your collection: Subtle, fluid, androgynous

Glasses of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: None, I don’t drink.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: 1 or 2 maybe.

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Meeting other designers, its my first collection and its great to see how it all works.

This season's highlight: The London exhibition. It was my first time ever showing people my work after graduation. The comments I received were my highlight.

Emma Drinnan

Postcard from Paris: Jacob Kimmie

Use three words to describe your collection: Monastic, new, leather.

Units of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: Off the record I am not supposed to be drinking - my team of two are alcoholics though.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: None but I have still put on weight.

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Meeting Harriet’s Muse. Meeting all the designers actually. Its nice to finally meet the Fashion Scout community.

Favourite thing to do in Paris: To just suck up the energy of the city, it's my 17^th spiritual home.

This season's highlight: Has to be when the baby threw up on the dress in the fitting at our London show. There were so many highlights I couldn’t name them all. 

Emma Drinnan

Spotted! Felicity Brown in Italian Vogue

 Viva Italia! Our very own Felicity Brown has been featured on the blog for Italian Vogue. Heralded by writer Barbara Grispini, expert in spotting emerging design stars, as ‘a fantastic creative talent’, the beautiful, hand dyed collection of pleats and ruffles is described as ‘raw yet refined’. Always at the front line of glamour and style, the Italians have definitely cottoned on to a winner with Brown, and we can’t wait to see what’s next for this exceptionally innovative designer.

Fiona Anderson

Postcard from Paris: Gemma Slack (womenswear) and Katie Rowland (jewellery designer)

"We met at Digitaria which is now Machine A- we are both stocked in there and we were both in one day and started talking. Gemma comes up the concept of the collection and then the jewellery needs to work in with that," says Rowland. It’s the first time she has collaborated with a designer.

Use three words to describe your collection: Black, tight and slutty!

Glasses of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: Oh my goodness, maybe we should work in how many bottles and cocktails. I’m not even sure how much we drank last night.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: We just shared some Brioche.

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Being in Paris. Does that sound lame?! It's been so good to meet a range of people and chatting with the other designers and how they are doing everyone is really supportive.

This season's highlight: Katie Rowland - the presentation in London was such a good turn out, it was busy throughout the three hours it was on and the press we got afterwards was so good.

This seasons highlight: Gemma Slack - The combination showing a catwalk show in London and showing an exhibition in Paris.

Emma Drinnan 

Postcard from Paris: Alice Palmer

Use three words to describe your collection: Edgy, innovative and wearable.

Glasses of alcohol consumed over Paris Fashion Week: Probably a whole brewery's worth.

Amount of pastries eaten in Paris: About half a dozen a day, I don’t know how the French stay so slim.

Best bit about exhibiting with Fashion Scout in Paris: Meeting with buyers.

Favourite thing to do in Paris: Eat and just walk around the streets and go into boutiques.

This season's highlight: The catwalk show and seeing everything come together and the incredible feedback.

Emma Drinnan