Do you remember that crazy drunk guy hanging around at the Luna Park with a kickdrum on his back playing an off-tune guitar and singing bewildered?

Looks like he’s a superstar now, and girls go crazy sitting on his bouncing knees.

Bob Log III is playing in Berlin tomorrow at Kaffee Burger.
A kinky location for a kinky artist. See you there guys.

Bob Log III

When it comes to an Ashish collection, expect a sequin to make an appearance. This season he created his own country – Ashishistan – drawing on ideas from traditional Russian and Middle Eastern dress to create the wardrobe for the women of his country. In reality this was him fantastically embracing the 90’s grunge trend, mixing sequinned lumberjack shirts with chunky, cosy cardigans, paper-bag waisted trousers and elements of folk detail.
The look was relaxed yet striking and completed with all models wearing brogues and bobble hats.

Nathan Jenden went tribal with a vast array of animal prints this season. Leopard to zebra in the form of dresses, catsuits, hat and coats were not at all gaudy and tacky but wonderfully bright and powerful. The colour of the collection was a lovely contrast to the dominating black of the season. In an interesting twist, Jenden did not use any white models.

Photos by Jimmy James

Following on, another designer famed for his love of dresses and use of print, William Tempest was this season inspired by Islamic architecture and the Queen of Sheba. He sent wonderfully structured and tailored dresses in metallic hues down the catwalk. Black dominated this collection, as it has for a majority of A/W 2010 but Tempest lightened the mood with jewel greens and cream. A wide range of dresses was seen here but they flowed and had a cohesive nature, indicating Tempest’s skill as a designer.

photos – catwalking.com

The decadent surroundings of the Royal Opera House were a fitting location for the Nicole Farhi show as she showed a polished, minimalist collection. Blacks and nudes provided the base colours, which were punctuated with reds and PVC to give it an interesting angle. Key fabrics of the season, tweed and metallics also made an appearance.

Osman had a dramatic start to his show, stamping his signature style early on by sending four models in black draped dresses, walking down his catwalk in a regimented row. The collection that followed saw round sunglasses, embellished wedges, boater hats and suede thigh high boots acessorise gorgeous funnel neck jackets and fur coats, wide legged trousers and curved hem dresses. It had the feel of a 1950’s stylish lady in the country, something Katherine Hepburn may have worn in her heyday.

It is fair to say I was more than a little bit excited to be attending the Christopher Kane show. The hottest name in British fashion at the moment, I had high hopes and he didn’t let me down. He is an expert at producing concise, clean collections with clear and often simple ideas. For A/W 2010 he sent black PVC, leather and lace dresses and jacket / skirt combos down the catwalk. The first half of the collection was adorned with hand-embroidered flowers of many types and colours. The end evening pieces swapped embroidery for jewel embellishment. The overall result was striking, the tough and tender combination worked perfectly.

Photos – catwalking.com

Animation by Sjors Vervoor.

We all thought the spring was on the way but just before we pulled out the bermuda shorts and slapped on the factor 15 the snow came back. It didn’t stop the Berlin jammers- those hard bitten breed of jammers who aint scared of a bit of -15 weather. Although we broke about 10 discs because of the cold it didn’t stop us from making a great hat tournament last weekend.
A good turn-out and fantastic freestyle frisbee action proved again that the Berlin Jammers are really at the top of their game.
In first place Woo and Ludwig, second was Marc and Anton and in third place was
Makki and Noetzi.

Full length documentary on Fela Anikulapo Kuti – the charismatic and talented Godfather of African music, the originator of Afrobeat, who inspired a generation of musicians and nearly started a revolution in Nigeria.

Words: Jennifer McNulty and Deborah Latouche

At Mulberry the models walked to Jungle Book theme tune – the collection was as always polished and well rounded, stand out pieces were the total leopard print combo’s  and the exquisite tulip coats.

Photos: Deborah Latouche

You may not have heard of Doii Paris but after seeing this collection, they will stick in your mind. Entitled, ‘Walk in the Forest’ a troop of red headed ivory skinned Pre-Raphaelite models showed us a colour palette that darkened from a pink and white first half of the collection to greys and blacks of the end. There was a whimsical Alice in Wonderland theme, with Queen of Hearts and white rabbit prints on maxi dresses and jackets. Lace and ruffle embellishments completed this soft, romantic collection.

Photo: Tilly Pearman

Part of the British design establishment, Jasper Conran presented an interesting, wearable collection featuring 1950’s shapes – pencil skirts and jackets – with a futuristic twist. The skirts and dresses had sheer panels, sometimes buttock exposing, and the jackets were extreme cocoon shapes. Throw some silver plated neck collars and wrist cuffs, digital cut dresses and electric blue leggings into the mix and it makes for an exciting collection.
This show also had a high celeb quota including the Sugababes, milliner Stephen Jones, Jo Wood and random spot of the week – Richard E. Grant.

For A/W 2010 Future Classics put fur sleeves on tweed jackets and mixed it with 80’s zig-zag print leggings. Sounds strange, looks fantastic. Alongside this they deconstructed then reconstructed classic tailored pieces to create striking yet relaxed garments; that gave a unique spin to jackets, cardigans and trousers. Chiffon shirt dresses, draped, slouchy cargo pants and multi layering made this a very covetable collection.

Photo: Tilly Pearman

Matthew Williamson has grown immensely since he headed Pucci and this is evident in this collection, he is designing for women, he used an abundance of copper tones which have to be the new gold for A/W10; mixed with oranges, cobalt blue and deep purple.  he still uses lots of embellishment but is a very sophisticated manner.

Eley Kishimoto held their static presentation at their shop round the corner from liberties.  The duo decided to give us an inside view as to how their prints evolve. The collection was very Eley Kishimoto beautiful loud prints on 70’s cut clothes pieces hich would give every wardrobe a unique touch.

Photos: Deborah Latouche

I was so impressed with the grand interiors of the Royal Courts of Justice and as my bags went through the metal detector I could not help but wonder how on earth Vivienne Westwood managed to get permission to put a fashion show on here.

Her collections are full of different ideas which enable her to cater for many tastes, Fushia plaid, power suits, well cut coats and plenty of asymmetric cuts – Westwood’s shows always have such an anarchist feel to them, but after all  she is the Queen of Punk.

Photos: Jimmy James

Translucencies even at Maison Martin Margiela!
Combined with voluminous corps and layers, giving weighty looks a needed portion of ease.
Structured shoulders are a prevalent trend since two seasons; interesting how the house takes them down to the waist. Rearrangement as a logical evolution in combination with classics as turtleneck & pleated pants in grey & beige, I LIKE!

Seen at FW Paris, photos via Style.

More gentle translucencies. This time in unexpected specific manners. Layering that interlaces boyish relax with ladylike sex.
Seen at Anne Valérie Hash at Paris FW, photos via style.com