London Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2008

London Fashion Week a/w 08 kicks off on Sunday February 10 and runs until Friday February 15 - six days packed with shows all over London. Once again, the official British Fashion Council venue is at the Natural History Museum, and this season there is one official catwalk there as well as the ever-growing exhibition.

Esthetica is back for the fourth season and from its modest start, is developing into a key part of the Fashion Week proceedings, featuring stands from 20 designers, companies and organisations all committed to ethical business. There are still designers who think that showing fur in London is acceptable, but their influence seems to be waning.

We are looking forward to seeing some debuts as well as catching up with designers whose progress we've been following. Julie Berube returns to the off-schedule catwalk after a season away, newcomers include CORE, Inbar Spector and, being launched with a low key presentation, Ossie Clark. A founder of WGSN has bought the Ossie label and AV aka Avsh Alom Gur, is the man in charge of designing the first collection.

This season, we're chuffed to have Maia Adams and Selene Pearson writing catwalk reports and Ian Gillett as our photographer. We have also hooked up with Brightonart and Mark Scarratt's team will be providing us with some catwalk videos. We'll also be taking time this season to check out what people attending the shows are thinking and wearing.

On and off-schedule there are a total of 98 shows across the six days! We'll do our best to bring you some corkers and share some genuine insights.

Enjoy.

Marian Buckley
Editor