{"id":62060,"date":"2010-09-25T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=14690"},"modified":"2010-09-25T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T13:39:53","slug":"ozwald-boateng-ss-2011-london-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/ozwald-boateng-ss-2011-london-fashion-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozwald Boateng S\/S 2011 – London Fashion Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Exclusively dedicated to menswear,\u00a0Wednesday was\u00a0also the last day of the London Fashion Week, and it’s an understatement to say that Ozwald Boateng closed this season\u00a0in style, by\u00a0offering the mesmerised audience an outstanding show with no less than 100 models on the catwalk.<\/p>\n

Taking place at the Odeon on Leicester Square, the show celebrated Ozwald Boateng 25 years in menswear.\u00a0Despite so many years in the business and\u00a0an impressive\u00a0array of A-list clients, this was the first ever on-schedule show in the London Fashion Week for the tailor.\u00a0 And what a show! Organised like a proper red carpet event, with many celebrities attending, including VV Brown, Piers Morgan & Celia Walden, Amber Rose,\u00a0Michelle Williams, Shingai from The Noisettes,\u00a0Jo Wood supporting son Tyrone on the catwalk and\u00a0Nick Rhodes, to name but a few, it started\u00a0with a 4-minute preview of\u00a0“A Man’s Story”, a documentary film by the iconic Savile Row tailor himself, covering 12 years of\u00a0 his personal life and career.<\/p>\n

Both A\/W 2010 and S\/S 2011 collections were presented. It started on a quiet note, with black and white looks, dark and neutral colours, then the collection\u00a0grew stronger and stronger with the apparition of colours, making the audience whoop\u00a0each time another model walked down the catwalk. Influences and illustrations of years of British style\u00a0showed up\u00a0through a large array of\u00a0silhouettes\u00a0from ska boy to gentleman hunter, to city boy, to nerd, but always in amazing style, representing different stages in “A Man’s Story”. The collections were a perfect mix of impeccable tailoring, with Ozwald Boateng’s signature modern suiting, and more fashion daring pieces,\u00a0through the introduction of leather shorts, cropped sleeveless jackets and shiny quilted trench coats.<\/p>\n

But can we talk about Ozwald Boateng without mentioning colours? I am nearly speechless here as the display of shades, each one\u00a0more amazing than the other, took my breath away. From bright colours such as citrus, lime, turquoise, purple, orange to more subtle and deep tones, emerald, forest green, viridian, cobalt, Prussian blue, khaki, terracotta, cordovan, it\u00a0felt like a Pantone dream… magnified by luxurious fabrics.<\/p>\n

Highlights for me included obviously the coloured suits, notably one\u00a0in a\u00a0darker shade of viridian green and\u00a0turquoise shirt, the low crotch trousers, particularly when teamed with satin black shirt and dark waistcoat, as well as the gentleman hunter looks. I must admit I also had an unexpected crush on the bad boy look with white and black shirt, high waisted trousers\u00a0styled with\u00a0wallet chains, and small fedora.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In short, impeccable from start, with this sublime man in a stunning white suit playing acoustic guitar on stage before the show, to end, when the tailor\u00a0took the catwalk\u00a0with his father, while models\u00a0walked in procession up the rows and back to Ozwald Boateng\u2019s Savile Row atelier,\u00a0through Leicester Square, Picadilly and Regent Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was a standing ovation\u00a0for the king of Savile Row.\u00a0Amazing display, amazing suits, elegance in so many different ways and styles. In one word, inspiring.<\/p>\n

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Laurie Guillem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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