a few highlights from london

i loved this look but really the entire collection was brilliant - so much texture, so much skilled layering, and so much black. definitely fantasy life, but with an element of the real life.
john rocha f/w 2010

i really love this jacket - the black on black embellishments are beautifully done. i'm imagining it on la lanphear over one of her basic outfits - thin black pants, white tee, perhaps a gray blazer layered underneath the black?
matthew williamson f/w 2010

i would really, really love to be badass enough to pull this dress off. but i'm not, so i'm going to sit in a corner and cry about it.
julien macdonald f/w 2010

coats like this almost make me wish i lived in a climate where i could wear one. not really, but i still covet really great coats. and i love pringle - when i was 16 i spent a summer in england, and was waiting at heathrow for my flight home totally exhausted, literally falling asleep in my chair when i saw the pringle store. something drew me in, and despite the fact that i was practically sleep-shopping, i managed to find and purchase a bag that i used for the next several years. still have it, but i never use it - alexander wang and i are exclusive on the handbag front.
pringle f/w 2010

can i have this look in all black, please? then add a few extra black layers, mary kate's black python ps1, some psycho jewelry, and walk around pretending i'm an olsen twin.
burberry prorsum f/w 2010

fantasy life: wear with messy hair and kate lanphear's jewelry for a picnic in griffith park.
real life: hang on wall and drool.
jenny packham f/w 2010

a note on christopher kane: i thought it was brilliant in theory and fell down in execution. it was all really well done, except for the embroidery. it was really well designed and the colors were good, but it was sad machine embroidery - which in a collection that so prominently featured embroidery was a major shortcoming. there's no substitute for hand work. obviously a rtw collection can't afford hand embroidery, but i thought that the difference in quality really detracted from what otherwise was a fantastic collection.