By: Godfrey Deeny, February 22, 2022
FASHION NETWORK
Elsewhere at LFW: Ozwald Boateng, Clements Ribeiro, Johannes Warnke and Banshee of Savile Row
Far from the established runways, London Fashion Week threw up a bunch off cool surprises, from Ozwald Boateng showing off-calendar; a Clements Ribeiro come back; and debuts by an Irish tailor and a German romanticist.
A key element in London will always be about tailoring though Irish-born Banshee of Savile Row approaches the tradition with a fresh twist – creating gentlemanly bespoke tailoring for women.
The fledgling brand staged its first show in a Mayfair Gallery this weekend, and there was certainly plenty of posh panache about the clothes.
From the crimson linen suit made with a cutaway, six-button officer’s mess jacket and the soft belted rose-hued jackets to a great midnight blue velvet theatre coat and, best of all, a flawlessly draped pink seersucker suit made with a double-breasted jacket and a single-pleat pants, paired with a tuxedo shirt.
Jaunty and coltish, and somehow just right for the current London mood of pulling together very spruce looks.
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