At events like London Fashion Week it’s only latex suit natural that the menagerie of fashion editors, spider man costume stylists, PRs and general liggers size up the competition and attempt to gazump each other with ever more fantastical outfits. So my scruffy appearance, care of Top Shop, GAP and an obscure Soho trainer shop managed to hit a level of disdain usually reserved for cold-callers and obsessive ex-boyfriends.
In contrast, to call the fashion pack’s look “directional” doesn’t do justice to the way in which half the wildlife from Tongariro National Pink Shiny Metallic nurse uniform Catsuit Park seemed to stampede down into South Kensington and onto the feet, backs, and handbags of London’s style leaders this week.
This is all very well for serious style victims who don’t mind looking daft if they can claim the costume zentai fashion high ground in the process, but are we “normal” folk prepared to follow their example? Well, yes. Sort of. I think, for instance, that most of us will have already succumbed to at least one piece of faux Mixed color Shiny Metallic Sexy Dress animal fur this season. I myself have a pair of furry clogs that my workmates have likened to a duo of hyperactive guinea pigs.
