While Milan Fashion Week is slowly starting to gain momentum today, the events of late that happened in the English capital, less than 24 hours ago, are still fresh on the minds of the sartorial set. And as social media platforms continue to be flooded with these trending hashtags and images from London Fashion Week, there is no time but the present to look into them.

  1. 1. #LOVEISLOVE at Burberry’s February 2018 Collection

If the lamps that oscillated to the soulful slowed-down rendition of Bronksi Beat’s Memories is not indication enough of the mood at Christopher Bailey’s swansong at the storied House of Burberry, then the kaleidoscopic spectrum of laser beams used during the finale – in every colour imaginable under the sun – can certainly attest to the very blatant message of inclusivity, diversity, and the purity of love, in the designer’s magnum opus. As never before has politics been so explicitly endorsed in fashion.

After having presented 66 runway shows, and designed over 3,400 looks during his 17 years at Burberry, Bailey spent over 18 hour days slaving away in the Burberry home base at Horseferry Road just to be able to properly dedicate his last collection to “supporting some of the best and and brightest organisations that help LGBTQ+ youth around the world”.

Worn by the otherworldly beauty Adwoa Aboah, Edie Campbell and OG Burberry IT Girl Cara Delevigne, the iconic standouts from the House’s impressive archives all get a modern spin – as the wet weather godsends that Burberry is known for are updated with the very covetable #RainbowCheck; this season’s textile du jour.

What’s love got to do with it? Everything.

Brava C.B.! We will miss you.

2. #YASQUEEN at Richard Quinn Autumn/Winter 2018

4:20pm, Tuesday, 20th Februray 2018 will forever go down in history as the time the world stood still.

Never before, since the beginning of time, have two reigning monarchs ruled side by side in one setting, in jolly old England, until now – as Her Majesty the Queen, and the Queen of our Hearts sat beside each other at a fashion show. Sure, it is not the first time that actual royalty brushed up against fashion royalty. And one would be quick to mention that the latter, Anna Wintour, was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the former, Queen Elizabeth II, in 2008, but never before at a fashion show!

And so, back to the said fashion show. In only his second season after graduating from the M.A. programme at Central Saint Martins in 2016, Richard Quinn’s recent success is also attributed to his clever manipulation of prints and textiles – skills he picked up from his internships at Dior in Paris and Richard James on Savile Row, which bagged him the impressive inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design.

Quinn’s idiosyncratic take on botanical prints are stretched and warped before turning into surface decoration for billowing silks and pretty puffers – perfect additions to the sartorial repertoires of Her Majesty’s and Dame Anna’s. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. It’s two Queens for the price of one!

Trust me, the memes all speak for themselves.

Images: Showbit.com and www.instagram.com/telegraphfashion

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