London Fashion Week AW13 - Last Day of People Watching

British artist and Creative Director of Sorapol London looking pretty in pink at the Ziad Ghanem show.

Sitting next to Daniel on the front row were Victoria and Mark-Francis from Made In Chelsea. Victoria was wearing Sorapol London.

It was a cold day even inside, but Dame Kelly Holmes braved the weather and went sleeveless at the Maria Grachvogel show - Must admit with toned arms like hers, who wouldn't go sleeveless?

And maybe not people watching but this model from the Edeline Lee presentation seemed to be watching us!

Ziad Ghanem Spring/Summer 2012 collection at London Fashion Week

After a long day running from show to show and queuing for hours, you may go in to a Ziad Ghanem show feeling exhausted and agitated, but you’ll come out feeling invigorated and on a high!

Titled ‘Matka Joanna’ the collection’s inspiration came from the Polish film ‘Matka Joanna od aniolow’ (Mother Joan of the Angels). Here is good and evil in a tale of a nun processed by demons and where love and sacrifice is her only salvation.

OK the inspiration doesn’t sound like something that will lift your spirits but Ziad uses fine art performers as well as models. These performers know how to work that catwalk and work it they did!  

 The gorgeous singer Miss SaHHara sashayed in a silk flower print evening gown dramatised with the red colour bleeding, and even more so with red drips painted down SaHHara’s shoulders.   

Dominatrix and fire performer Jessica Love Dougher showed tough love in a see through corseted dress and g string.(tattoos model's own)

Marnie Scarlet- Diva Extraordinaire mixing latex with a froth of tulle  

Contemporary dancer Laura Cherry striking a pose

Here temptation abounds in burlesque curve enhancing corsets

and diaphanous silk organza body skimming silhouettes worn with nothing underneath. 

One little black dress although body skimming, looked quite demure and ordinary compared to the rest of the collection, until....

she walked past and showed a long row of loosely tied laces exposing her back and derrier.

The colour palette was monochrome representing good and evil 

with splashes of bright red, pinks and

peaches.

Bringing innocence in to the collection was Ziad’s little niece wearing a white bridesmaid style dress, although she gave a little diva toss of her hair as she walked off the stage- bless! 

Images by Chris Dadey www.christopherdadey.com

ZIAD GHANEM AW11 Collection at London Fashion Week

Titled ‘Never End, Never End, Never End’ 

the collection’s inspiration came from the horror video game ‘Silent Hill’ and the supernatural works of painter John Henry Fuseli.

Here performers as well as models sashayed down the catwalk and sashay they did.

Opening the show saw Marnie Scarlett, an alternative performer, hunched over like an old hag in a black jacquard full length hooped gown.

Raising her head and showing her joker like mask, she grew and grew in height 

until she was way above our heads, whilst performing a fan dance with two large green feathered fans. She obviously was on stilts but everything was so gracefully done. How can you top that?

Well the rest of the show didn’t disappoint starting with male models in long evening gowns with transparent tops. Here seen in a fish tailed netted gown  or....

..... looking tomb like embellished in gold

The Prince of Darkness strides in wearing a chiffon cloak

 

 Helen Crawford the first soloist ballet dancer kept on her toes by pirouetting down the catwalk in a pale lilac ethereal strapless dress and grey veil,

transgender singer SaHHara strutted her stuff in a sparkling sequined fish tailed gown, 

whilst artists Paul and Nora Battenberg-Cartwright as a gostly bride and groom in white with black print and black veils strew petals on the floor. 

Not all was gothic and horror; there was lightness in the middle of the show with draped vintage silk chiffon strapless gowns ready to take flight as the winged messenger in grey...

or bringing a fleeting taste of  innocence in floaty pale pink,

and a touch of drama in turquoise edged in green with envy,

... raising the temperature in hot fuchsia..

and ready to take flight in blue and white.  

But it was back to Gothic black with cobweb like embellishments.

Then came to turn of the femme fatales. The first in passionate pink with a death plunging neckline.

Whilst the blood red body con fish tailed gown squeezed the breath out of the next femme fatale 

and this virginal gown was not so innocent with its precarious neckline

And the last model proved you don't have to be stick thin to look glamorous.

A great show to end the day.