| The morning after a night out was the theme of Ashish’s show, which seemed fitting for this season at London Fashion Week. After the highs of LFW’s 40th anniversary celebrations in September, several designers opted to save on the costs of a full show for Autumn/Winter 2025. Some observers were even debating if LFW should consolidate into one annual edition, to be held in September only.
British designers are still grappling with the closure of Matches, ongoing challenges associated with Brexit and the pandemic, and rising costs, and it’s forcing them to rethink how they show up at fashion week. But if there’s one thing London excels at, it’s rising creatively to a challenge.
From Completedworks’s live-shopping scenes to Edeline Lee’s sparring models, Labrum’s concert at Abbey Road Studios, Tolu Coker’s immersive presentation that highlighted the process of creating the collection, Kazna Asker’s souk and ELV Denim’s celebration of circularity, London’s designers once again demonstrated their uncanny ability to build worlds. On the catwalk, SS Daley continued to go from strength to strength, while LFW tentpoles such as Roksanda, Erdem and Simone Rocha all delivered strong, evolved collections, and Burberry drew the crowds to Tate Britain.
Let’s not write off the February edition yet.
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