There are two great things that occur when Vivienne Westwood chooses a charity to promote on the runway at London fashion week. Number one, the charity gains awareness, which is great. Horray charity.
This year it was the Prince's Rainforest Trust; a charity that tries to raise awareness of the Rainforest's destruction. Their site has a counter telling you how much rainforest has been cut down whilst you've perused their site. It's great, really terrifies you in to adding your email address and a smug tweet to tell everyone so.
Secondly, when the charity's mascot of a Frog is paraded down the runway riding hats and bags, you gets some great shots. Not only this, but add some back stage action and posed photographs, and you get some excellent demonstrations of models trying to act. It's brilliant stuff.
Westwood not only took the frog to cosy up with pouting models, but also dressed in Rainforest style herself - perhaps green dresses with dark felty leaves are the next big thing. There was also a frog on display designed by in Vivienne Westwood's studio, covered in hand prints which sat a top a mighty pile of business cards.
The Red label show paraded for a 'St Trinians' inspired collection for AW 09/10 and loosely based clothes on school groups - the geek, the goth - and then tangented off into the realm of fairy tale stories with pirate and woodland style appearances.
Whilst the line was described by some as more sedate than expected, there was the touch of back-combed hair which fits with the key themes from this year along with colours that try very hard not to match. The Telegraph has a great video of everything I've mentioned and is well worth a look, specifically for a great sneer at 1:57.
Interestingly The Prince's Rainforest Trust had a bit of a campaign this Monday, involving Prince Charles appearing on a large video screen which led to a kerfuffle on the charity's Facebook page. After queries as to who the Prince was, it was decided that he was quite dishy and obscurely Indiana jones was asked to "move over," although moving from where I'm not entirely sure.
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