Fashion aficionos basked in strong late summer sunlight Saturday as runway shows and presentations picked up speed at London Fashion Week. Model and TV presenter Alexa Chung showed some of her latest creations in a show followed by an earnest discussion on “body positivity” in an joining room. fashion seminars featuring industry movers and shakers are part of a new British Fashion Council drive to increase public participation in fashion week.

Later shows are to feature Molly Goddard, hats of master milliner Stephen Jones, and House of Holland. main event will be model Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief gala at British Museum.

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Alexa Chung’s loyal fans flocked show

An early start couldn’t deter Alexa Chung’s legions of loyal fans, who flocked to her Saturday morning show featuring many of her newest outfits offering variations on her classic feminine mes.

Chung greeted fans with a video mess featuring a mont of what she described as “AC World.” She described new works as “clos to feel empowered in” with a me of “female solidarity” and said y were designed to “get over heartbreak.”

TV personality also offered a pep talk to her mostly youthful audience: “Enjoy life, kids,” she said. “It’s great.”

collection featured a number of long coats, including belted variations of classic trend, some worn over slip dresses or beautifully constructed longer dresses. colors were muted, with many variations of green and gray, and Chung paid hom to American west with a denim dress that seemed to conjure up open skies and endless vistas.

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re was a well-tailored double-breasted suit, but sign of Dynasty-style shoulder ps or power-dressing, and some 60s-style jumpsuits. Chung doesn’t do flash, but she couldn’t resist a few faux-snakeskin pieces.

Chung’s style is t fussy or overdone, with models wearing mostly light makeup and flowing hairstyles. emphasis is on a simple, easy look, elegant and fun.

Marta Jakubowski evokes Marlene Dietrich

A London-based designer who is gaining prominence on fashion scene, Marta Jakubowski, born in Poland and raised in Germany, has brought her minimalist aestic to runways of British capital.

She said her spring and summer 2020 collection, shown Friday night, was inspired in part by film star Marlene Dietrich and seeks to combine codes of power dressing from various eras.

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designs were asymmetric and relied heavily on a light color palette, with many shes of blue and lavender. A long black dress with a white choker was particularly dramatic, as was an off--shoulder black ensemble.

look was deceptively simple, without a riot of color or discordant prints. Some outfits featured high-waisted trousers, and ors were eye-catching in pure white and elegant draping.

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