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 Preen designer duo Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi used floral
prints for their spring/summer 2019 dresses, which came in
various styles.
Models wore one-shoulder ruffled dresses in lace as well as silk
frocks with voluminous shoulders and sleeves. Different kinds of
floral prints as well as types of materials were often mixed
together on deconstructed dresses with overlaying panels.
Some gowns were short at the front with a longer tail at the
back. Round-collared tops, also with exaggerated sleeves were
cropped at the stomach and paired with drawstring shorts.
Like other shows at London Fashion Week, the looks were finished
with socks and sandals. Neck scarves had a belt buckle detail at
the front.
There was also lots of lace at Mouret's show, where models
walked on an outdoor catwalk under a clear blue London sky.
Mouret, whose dresses are worn by celebrities and royals, chose
an overall fluid, loose silhouette for the collection, using a
pastel color palette as well as some graphics and prints for the
outfits.
He said his line "plays with an introvert sexuality" and looked
to female independence. Show notes said the French designer drew
"thematically from the 1974 softcore pornographic film
Emmanuelle, with its sub-text that spoke for women to
unapologetically own their sexuality" through to the #metoo and
#timesup movements against sexual harassment.
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"Women across the world have found strength through the community of
shared experiences," Mouret said. "Women are the voice of our
society, and this is what I want to express in the collection."
Models wore dresses that bared shoulders or fronts, tunic tops,
loose wide-leg trousers and pencil skirts, all slit to show panels
of black lace.
The looks were accessorized with pointy lace-up mules and
high-heeled rope-tie sandals. Models also wore badges reading "woman
up".
"The idea of real romanticism that's been on so many of the runways
from New York ...(is) certainly very apparent here in London as
well," Ken Downing, fashion director at Neiman Marcus, told Reuters.
London Fashion Week, the second leg of the month-long catwalk season
which began in New York, runs until Tuesday.
(This version of the story fixes typo in first paragraph.)
(Reporting By Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Emelia
Sithole-Matarise)
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