Fasten your boob belts! Eight trends from London fashion week(0)

Belts and boobs. No, not a Stereophonics B-side, but two problem areas for fashion. First, belts. The past couple of seasons have seen designers insist on anything but conventional buckling, most notably the paper-bag style (Margaret Howell) and the rope belt (Gosha Rubchinskiy). Boobs, meanwhile, continued to be celebrated and going bra-less is having a moment in Kardashian-Jenner world. Donatella Versace has tried to fix things by creating the boob belt, which she showed at her Versus show. Worn as part of a futuristic-looking outfit (bodycon trousers, tight jacket with exaggerated sleeves), the look was very Mad Max Fury Road and suggested a way to re-house any chunky 80s-style belts. PE

Plastic-surgery bandagesThe geometric Anya Hindmarch show was an Olympically precise dance of tightly choreographed winding and unwinding that resembled a synchronised swimming event. The models wore elegantly placed rolls of thick, white bandage tape around their head and neck. Some wore oversize sunglasses and the overall effect was that of a wannabe Hollywood starlet unveiling her new appearance after some career-altering face work. We’re calling it “Hervé Légering for the head”. PE“Lampshading” may be all the rage now (making your silhouette big at the top and smaller at the bottom) but next season it will be all about literally looking like a lampshade from the 70s. Mary Katrantzou’s pear-shaped silhouettes featured psychedelic prints mixed with ancient-Greek vase imagery. Add some circular perspex beading and you’ve got something you might fit with a 60 watt bulb at Timothy Leary’s Etsy store. Multi-tiered dresses (very Ikea lampshade) featured at Erdem, Henry Holland and Ryan LO, suggesting inspiration is now to be taken directly from your desk. PE

Street casting and Instafame has meant that the catwalk has moved away from the conventional ideas of beauty into something more global. Some designers have even pushed that idea further, with traditionally “ugly” tropes morphing into something else. At Christopher Kane, he styled his models with wet-look mullets, and the overall effect was Frida Kahlo meets the Bloomsbury set. At Gareth Pugh’s dramatic and ominous show, models had liquorice strips of black lipstick and hair that was in between a crow and Medusa. Equally disturbing were the beauty elements of the occult-inspired Preen show: models wore dry pressed flowers on their lips (very Kate Bush), while sporting girlish plaits and Pentagram earrings. PE

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