London Streets
The Eye of London is an eye observing street style from above. Fashion rises up from the grassroots and from the people. In London there are no rules and the streets are the source of trends. That’s why I like it so much.
In Covent Garden, you can breathe a timeless atmosphere amongst the street artists and artisans (who aren’t always cheap). It’s a window on new trends and moods. Globalization and globetrotter: ethnic prints, bohemian scarves and platform boots, mixing is the new must. Giles and Marc Jacobs have shown us.
Walking from Oxford Street to Marble Arch, past traditional British chain stores, you can come across spacewomen in futuristic outfits of Indian colors that seems to be right off of a Manish Arora runway (stylist to whom the Victoria and Albert museum have dedicated a temporary exhibition).
Southampton Street: Trespass, The North Face, Ellis Brigham, Mountain Warehouse. A shopping tour through new leisurewear collections, just to get some ideas for technical fabrics and experimental shapes.
Must sees: Selfridges’, Harrods’s and Harvey Nichol’s Knightsbridge. Near the latest fashion and home collections, are exhibitions such as massive tetrahedrons by Conrad Shawcross and previews of new talent gems such as The Row by the Holsen twins.
What are your favorite places in London?
31 December 2008 at 12:20
There are so many great parts of London but my choice would definately have me sat on the Tattershall Castle (a moored boat which acts as a bar) overlooking Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye.
12 January 2009 at 12:21
You’re right,the tattershall castle promises amazing views of the river, the London eye and up river the houses of parliament, beautiful place!