Let's celebrate the best of British Fashion.... #1

Fashion Week touched down in London on Friday, and what I've seen so far has been superb. I couldn't be more excited to catch the rest, and just generally read about it and watch the live streams... I'm like a kid at Christmas. It's one of my favourite times of the year, and in a way it motivates me, (weird I know) but I can't be the only one. It's so fascinating to see how Britain, especially London has changed and shaped fashion as well as fashion shaping London as a city.

Again as introducing a new series where I will celebrating British fashion, and taking a look back at how iconic it's been to us, but also discussing what the future holds for fashion and Britain. This will be a brief introduction for this post but for now you can enjoy a short yet sweet one.

The Best of the British Bunch 

Iconic designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane, Stella McCartney, Alexander Mcqueen, Christopher Bailey and Mary Quant and Paul Smith. Don't get me wrong Britain have many influential designers and upcoming designers (which will be in another post in the next, so stay tuned).   Especially with the best art universities... University of the Arts London especially LCF and Central St Martin, Royal College of Art, Westminster, Ravensbourne just to name a few, the talent is never ending.

The British High Street

The high street we definitely don't realise how significance to fashion and the industry as well as Britain.  Even though international chains have great style and provide great clothing it's hard to lose track of British high street shops. I'm not complaining Let's face even though we have the rise of on-line shopping we wouldn't be able to live without. I mean I wouldn't have a job for starters.

Without it we wouldn't have Arcadia so your beloved Topshop, Miss Selfridge etc. and department stores: Harrods (which actually used to be located south of the River Thames in Southwark, not Knightsbridge), Debehenhams, House of Fraser.

Carnaby Street was the most popular and "hip" (*shudders*- cringey word something my grand parents would say). Popular with the Mod and Hippy subcultures, however before the 1960's Carnaby Street would be one to avoid a run down place with cheap rented property. It's hard to believe walking down there it could have ever been like that. The massive impact it had was shown after the 1960's Carnaby Street was the second popular tourist attraction after Buckingham Palace.

Then:(source Time Out.com)

Now:

With regret this had to be a small post because there's so much to celebrate, something I will probably do again, as I enjoyed writing it, as I think we do forget about it all. This may be a bit of a lost in thought kind of post, but I wanted to talk about and reinforce how important British fashion is, whilst you may sit and blog about fashion with the expectation of instantly being invited to LFW, but there's so much we have to celebrate before you all peacock and parade, as at sometimes I think we take for granted how great Britain actually is. (I know I do).

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