With diving models and female-directed Greek odysseys, this years event felt anything but ordinary
London fashion week is back, but not back to normal.
Roland Mouret, whose regular pre-pandemic fashion week turn was a catwalk show at the National Theatre, commissioned a film in which actors wore his new collection as costume while their characters ate dinner, danced and rode motorbikes.
Meanwhile, Rejina Pyo’s show opened with Team GB athletes plunging from the diving board at the London Aquatic Centre, rather than with a model walking a runway.
“I’m not going to pretend that the world is as it was before,” Mouret said before the screening. “A shock on this scale [the pandemic] is like divorce, or grief. It will take five years at least for society to recover, for politics to recover – and the same goes for fashion.”