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With her husband David and their children
watching from the front row, Beckham said the spring/summer 2020
collection highlighted her love of contrasts, mixing tailored
suits with floaty dresses and pale neutrals with bold colors.
The former Spice Girl turned designer, who has also launched a
beauty line, opened the show with sharp trouser suits in check,
cream or light colors.
The outfits were layered: jackets or coats over large-collared
shirts, which nodded to 1970s styles, with the latter on top of
rollneck tops. Trousers were long, straight and high-waisted.
Dresses came in purple, yellow, green, bronze, black and softer
colors, and were cut in various styles: from halterneck and
asymmetric to low-cut and long-sleeved. Most had feminine
ruffles on the neckline, shoulders or waist. Some had floral
patterns.
"Lightness, easiness, freedom. Those are the ideas I was
thinking of for this collection. It's about dynamic women today,
women in motion," Beckham said in show notes.
"Controlled and free, living life, reality and believability.
There is always a duality in women, moving between different
ideas, different moods. I want clothes that move with a woman,
that move with her life."
Beckham also had dabs of prints in the collection - floral or
scribbled-like handwriting.
Skirts were calf-length, pencil-shaped and slit at the front and
sides, adding to the sense of fluidity. Beckham also put ruffles
on shirts. Accessories included floral neckpieces, large brown
sunglasses and colorful heels in purple, turquoise and other
bold shades.
Ahead of the show, around 30 demonstrators from climate activist
group Extinction Rebellion staged a protest outside the venue,
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, seeking to draw attention
to the fashion industry's impact on the environment.
Holding banners reading "Fashion shouldn't cost the Earth" and
"The Ugly Truth About Fashion", the protesters gave speeches
chanted slogans like "Fashion equals ecocide" and "Repair Rewear
Rebel".
While walking to the venue, the protesters temporarily stopped
traffic on the way while grouping on a main road for a few
minutes at a time.
Extinction Rebellion, which has staged protests in recent months
calling for action to tackle climate change, had called on
London Fashion Week organizers to cancel the five-day industry
event where designers are unveiling their latest womenswear
lines.
At the Friday opening, a small group of its activists glued
themselves to a door of the main Fashion Week venue and poured
out a "bleeding" red carpet.
Earlier on Sunday, Japanese influences prevailed on the Preen by
Thornton Bregazzi catwalk, where models wore tops with Manga
comics prints and floral dresses.
Preen designer duo Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi opened the
show with black and white looks before presenting an array of
pastel-colored lace, silk and see-though ruffled frocks.
Dresses came in an array of lengths and styles - frilly,
layered, floaty, with puffed up sleeves, slits or slim-fit and
in bright colors or floral prints.
London Fashion Week ends on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Jayson Mansaray;
additional reporting by Stephen Veal; Editing by Raissa
Kasolowsky)
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