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[quote=BBQQ,276975]The LFW exhibition area for independent labels was as deserted as the poultry aisle of a supermarket after an avian flu scare when I dropped by. “Footfall is down,” said William Stewart-Brown, UK representative of Indian designer Rohit Bal. “The climate is very tough because of the credit crunch.”

The models stalking the catwalk at a fashion show I attended looked equally disgruntled. But you would too if a couple of Marlboro Lights and a celery stick were all you could expect at dinner time. One etiolated figure was wrapped in a garment like a miniature black duvet. Lisa Murray-Peacock, a Debenhams design boss, explained that “cocooning” was a big trend. Well-dressed women are apparently wrapping themselves in protective layers of clothes, in reaction to economic instability and the Clash of Civilisations.

The way things are going, they could soon be wearing Kevlar waistcoats with their life savings sewn into the linings. Piquant, therefore, to see hot talent Christopher Kane exhibiting a rah-rah dress in an army camouflage print. This should help the wearer to avoid attracting mujahideen rocket fire if she wanders into a war zone on her way back from the boutique.
The correlation between fashion and the broader zeitgeist should not be exaggerated. But it is true that Dior’s flamboyant New Look marked a revolt against postwar austerity drives in which the authorities urged women to reduce waste by making hats from carpet offcuts. The idea that skirt lengths rise and fall in line with the economy has, meanwhile, gained underpinning from the lower hems displayed at some catwalk shows this week.

I could find little consensus at London Fashion Week on the impact the downturn might have on consumer behaviour. Some fashionistas thought customers would buy an expensive dress or two and lay off the tops. Others expected a tops splurge to compensate for retrenchment in dress-related capex.[/quote]

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