5 London Fashion Week Trends We’re Recreating On Campus
5 London Fashion Week Trends We’re Recreating On Campus
How To Wear High Fashion On A Budget and Style Looks For Student Life.
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London Fashion Week’s Autumn/Winter 2024-25 show celebrated its 40 year anniversary this year, showcasing both the new wave of fashion and some of history’s most iconic looks. Fashion influencers love to recreate their favourite looks, but designer labels carry a hefty price tag, posing an issue for us students with a smaller budget. Here’s how to thrift some of the LFW looks for less and how to make these trends wearable for student routines:
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Colossal Coats
Burberry’s show honoured the best of British fashion with a sense of nostalgia, using an iconic Amy Winehouse soundtrack and featuring both past and present British models on the catwalk. Designer Daniel Lee’s third collection for the fashion house featured statement outerwear pieces designed to endure British weather. He described how:
"Burberry’s heritage of the outdoors continues to inspire me," he said “I wanted this collection to feel warm and protective.”
We see a revival of Burberry’s iconic checked trench coats in their signature print, utilising earthy, natural tones of browns, greens and pops of mustard yellow. We even see Phoebe Philo’s daughter, closing the show holding a miniature umbrella to further nod at the theme.
Get The Look For Less
Invest in a quality, neutral coloured trench coat that will last and match all your existing outfits so you too can brace the cold and rainy British mornings on your walks to campus.
£74.99
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Floral Fantasies
Erdem’s collection was inspired by American-Greek singer Maria Callas’ fashion, featuring floral prints to symbolise the flowers that were thrown on stage after her performances. Designer Erdem Moralıoğlu described:
“The collection explores the thin realm between myth and reality, on stage and off stage”
This materialised into the collection through the fashion house’s use of floral-printed fabric on sheer mesh, as well as three-dimensional floral applique. The motif can also be seen in the fashion house’s use of brooches fastened to dresses and coats, particularly with the repeated use of the gold, single stemmed rose broach.
Get The Look For Less
If you're a floral fan working on a student budget, instead of buying a whole new outfit why not start out accessorising with a floral barrette or jewellery piece in your preferred metal?
£13.00
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Trendy Textures
Molly Goddard used fabric scraps and vintage pieces to inspire her latest collection, using a variety of textures to create unique shapes and voluminous silhouettes. She described her designing technique as:
“Textures combining, pushing in pushing out, squashing everything so it is sort of fuzzy and blurry”
Molly Goddard makes use of tulle to create rounded, ruffled skirts in bold colours such as hot pink, red, maroon and mustard yellow. We also see a more organic style of the skirt using larger, layered sections of tulle to create a ‘bubble skirt’ effect.
Erdem have also adopted the use of various fabrics to create tactile looks, adorning the first model of the show with ivory, feathered shoes. Their use of feather detail and embellished lace demonstrated Maria Callas’ glamour.
Get The Look For Less
Dress up your typical ‘jeans-and-a-nice-top’ with a lace or mesh top and your favourite pair of jeans for your next trip to the student bar.
£22.99
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Pronounced Prints
Statement prints are making a comeback for the AW24 season, with many designers returning to their archives to reinvent some of the classic designs.
We see Molly Goddard make use of polka dots, favouring a red fabric with white spots.
As well as the florals, Erdem also uses gingham print and a thin chevron pattern.
Many were delighted to see the return of ‘The Burberry Check’, which has been a defining feature of their fashion house since the 60’s.
Get The Look For Less
Make a statement on campus by choosing an all black ‘fit from your existing wardrobe and pairing it with a bold printed scarf or accessory to really make it stand out.
£12.00
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Naturally Neutral
In keepings with Autumn, many of the fashion houses used greens, browns and neutral tones to provide a sense of unity for their collections.
Burberry’s collection was connected by khaki and cool-toned browns.
Erdem incorporated tones of jewel green and mustard to compliment their use of floral patterns.
Molly Goddard primarily stuck to red and pink tones, but used a touch of mustard.
Get The Look For Less
Stick to buying neutral pieces that compliment each other to create a capsule wardrobe, this will save you money in the long run!
£19.99
Whether you’re dreaming of floral frocks or polka prints, there’s always budget options for the latest fashion trends on the market. With enough leftover student loan to -hopefully- afford your weekly food shop, there’s no excuse for STILL showing up to your lecture in your college leaver’s hoodie…