London Fashion Weekend, Thursday 25th September.

We caught some of the London Fashion week action at the London Fashion Weekend event, held in South Kensington.

Aside from the opportunity to grab ourselves one of the money can't buy goodiebags, given away as part of our golden tickets bundle, we also wanted to check out all the latest creations in the world of clothing, shoes and jewellery from upcoming British designers and those who are already established.



If this wasn't enough, the ticket also included entry to an exclusive autumn/ winter 08 fashion show sponsored by Samsung and Estee Lauder.

Some of the key trends that were being showcased on the runway were folk, gothic and also the highly popular plaid.





Everything from wet look leggings, lace and leather completed the gothic look with extremely smoky eye makeup and slicked back or in contrast backcombed big hair. I love love loved the lace up boots which are a must have for the Autumn and particularly Winter look. Patent black is always a prominent material in footwear and bags.




The folk look is a lot more fun, but i have to say a lot harder to pull off. It is easy to look like you have got stuck in the hippy era, but in a bad way. I wasn't particularly keen on all of the trend from the catwalk, but the sheepskin thing is definitely working for me and i have to get one of the Autumn must have chunky knits as soon as i spot the right one.

Some of the dresses were particularly pretty, lots of thick winter fabrics and lashings of bright colours.

After the catwalk, we dashed around the two floors of stalls and guess what i didn't buy a thing. I was totally strong, but will definitely be saving for the Fashion Weekend 09 in February. Vivienne Westwood coats, Armani dresses and PPQ jumpers here i come.