London style 7 days has paid out a glamorous tribute to designer Federica Cavenati, regarded as Kikka, who died in November at the age of 28 following a limited and sudden illness.
The final collection Cavenati labored on was completed right after her death by Marco Capaldo, her associate both of those in life and their independent trend label 16Arlington, and offered on the catwalk at an psychological Sunday early morning clearly show in Bloomsbury.
“This was a celebration of the most beautiful particular person in my lifetime,” Capaldo said backstage immediately after the present. “I just hope that I did her very pleased.”
The temper was sombre but the clothes have been just about anything but. Cavenati’s name was synonymous with effervescent partywear – maribou feathers, system disco boots and hardly-there dancefloor dresses – and that spirit lived on in snakeskin-printed leather-based minidresses, cut-out sequin jumpsuits and tissue-slender knit attire. Numerous of the feathers utilized in the assortment were from an archive hand-dyed by Cavenati some several years in the past.
The selection was termed Tears, referenced further more by teardrops embroidered in crystal beading on white silk shirts. But there was a playfulness in the damp-glimpse feather boas and acid-tipped fluffy bucket hats, which Capaldo claimed felt accurate to the “lavishly, fabulously generous” Cavenati who “was a luminous person”.
Alice Temperley demonstrates ‘wild west’ selection
The designer Alice Temperley produced radical adjustments throughout the pandemic to foreseeable future-proof her label, going her headquarters from London to Somerset, shifting to local production where attainable, diversifying into homeware and planning an growth of Somerset, a significantly less high priced ‘younger sister’ line.
Temperley introduced the first assortment built in her Ilminster studio to a showroom in the capital for London trend 7 days, but its coronary heart remained in the countryside.
“I connect with this my wild west assortment, mainly because it’s my appreciate of Somerset with a bit of cowgirl escapism extra in,” reported the designer, surrounded by jodhpur-model denims, ponchos, romantic complete skirts and bohemian ruffled prairie attire. A silver-studded leather-based jacket, encouraged by a vintage belt in Temperley’s personal wardrobe, nodded to James Dean, though the rhinestone-dotted collared cocktail attire referenced Dolly Parton.
Velvet trouser satisfies, which are a signature of the brand – “we simply cannot make them rapidly plenty of!” – are produced for autumn in carnation pink and ice blue, with or devoid of equipped waistcoats. A shawl-collar trouser accommodate in striped British merino wool, produced in Somerset, is the initially tailoring seem from the manufacturer to be totally manufactured in the British isles.
