All Women must know: Gliding with Lilly

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Gliding with Lilly

via Style Bubble by susie_bubble on 1/23/11

>> I've been making more regular trips to Topshop due to sisterly bonding sessions that involves me trying to get my younger siblings to buy everything. I camp out around the Boutique/Unique/Designers area a fair bit, and often think that it's got a pretty comprehensive core wardrobe all laid out there. Xavier Brisoux for instance makes a lovely addition to the enclave, with his sheer-backed knitwear that I'm glad Topshop have picked up for their Emerge area. The Central Saint Martins MA collection repros still linger and after going for obvious dramatics with the Matthew Harding 'lampshade' constructed top to accompany the dramatic weather of the latter of 2010, I succumbed to one of the more subtle but no less impactful pieces by Lilly Heine. It's funny that my initial reaction to the Central Saint Martins MA was a lethargic and wrongly underwhelmed one and as months have gone by, seeing the designers to progress to various stages of showing their post-MA collections, winning accolades and doing collaborations have made me eat those initial thoughts. This slow burning effect has trickled on to the point where I've actually written more about the individuals of this particular crop of CSM MA graduates than any other year preceding it. Then again, this could also be the breadth of opportunities that have become available to the students - Thomas Tait collaborating with ASOS, the aforementioned Lilly Heine and Matthew Harding reproducing collections for Topshop, Tze Goh being stocked exclusively in LN-CC - to name but a few. In any case, I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to directly buy and wear pieces that previously existed only as Catwalking images or on student portfolio pages and wonder if this process of MA talent showcasing will expand come February when the next lot of students present their work.