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All you have to do is enter in your email address to go in the draw. With labels like Alexander Wang, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Alexander McQueen and more it's certainly worth entering now. Click here to enter. London Fashion Week: Fall 2011 The Fashionising.com team have been hitting London's top venues to bring you the most intimate details of fall 2011's new fashion trends. Scroll down for some of our highlights from the shows to date, or visit our dedicated London Fashion Week portal for the full coverage so far. Burberry Prorsum: all the photos and detail With the memorial to Prince Albert, the queen Victoria's consort, looming over it Burberry Prorsum had picked something of the perfect location for the unveiling of their autumn fall 2011 collection. Nestled in-between two rows of mature maples, their their leaves long lost to the cold of winter, and on the green grass of Kensington Gardens, stood Burberry Prorsum's tent, a modern design set amongst this majestic and pictuesque slice of Britishness. The setting couldn't have been more perfect for the fashion house. Nor too could the fact that the day remained overcast and the fog scarcely lifted have been more appropriate; the unveiling if winter collection on sunny days never have the same feeling, and London, typically, did't let Burberry down. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Burberry Prorsum: all the photos and detail' Cruella De Vil a Unique inspiration Just three days into London fashion week and, to the globetrotting fashion set, New York already seems a distant dream. At least, it did until Topshop Unique hit the runway with a feast of 1930s big city Americana. If Cruella De Vil seems an unlikely style icon, consider the inspirations of the autumn 2011 collection and you'll be forced to reconsider: it's all about the culture of luxury and status in the industrial age of America, the show's notes tell us, and Cruella is the collection's poster girl. It's unsurprising then that the show opened with a Dalmatian print coat, followed by a slew of models, puppy-nosed and with poodle-esque double topknots. Unique don't hold back on the opulence with feathers, furs, luxe velvets and rich prints - and yet for all its Cruella-like excess it's still got the young, fresh feel you'd expect. The (somewhat cliche, but effective none the less) Deco motifs of whippets, luxury cars, and 30s architecture carry through on a variety of garments. But while some of the more casual daywear pieces are a little to the cutesy side, its the evening wear - a patchwork of old world glamour meets modern cool - that will likely be the biggest hit with the Topshop girl. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Cruella De Vil a Unique inspiration' PPQ: for the superhero in you When PPQ's London fashion week show opened it was easy to imagine that the designers had taken the term sex kitten somewhat literally. A comic book-esque cat ear hat sat over Pippi Longstocking plaits, a black high necked frock and high heeled feet feathered with ruffles of black lace below them both. There's a sexy sternness to PPQ's autumn 2011 offering, the kind of sexy sternness that often is reserved for empowered female comic book characters. What then, if you're not much of a crime fighter by night? 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'PPQ: for the superhero in you' Issa: glam country appeal Bringing on a feeling of glam 70s, Issa's autumn / fall 2011 showing kicked off its London fashion week showing with model Abbey Lee Kerhsaw more than working the catwalk to the sound of Candi Staton's Young Hearts Run Free. The colour palette was richly autumnal: teals, plums, frosty greys and chocolate browns infused their way into printed silks and thick jersey. The feeling was equestrian-cum-country elegance - but with a masterful injection of sexual confidence. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Issa: glam country appeal' John Rocha: heavily inspired It may have been another of the autumn 2011 shows to work in the season's on-trend statement reds and faux fur, but John Rocha's London fashion week showing will be remembered by those in attendance for its blacks, its copious fabrics and its intricate hair braiding, all of which worked to set the show apart. Thankfully the latter two of the show's standout qualities weren't lavished upon its menswear component. While the use of tumbled yarn and tufted threads was kept at a minimum for men, each pieces' boxy cut thus appealing to my eye all the more for it, within women's it came out thick (pardon the pun) and fast. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'John Rocha: heavily inspired' Sass & Bide: boldness without power It's rare for sass & bide to fall down or fall flat; and having just sold off the majority of their brand to Australia's Myer, now is probably not the time to start. Yet fall 2011's toned-down take on their signature style was simply lacking a key ingredient: that fierceness, that fashion-forward sense of cool, that hyper-embelishment that sets the prices high and the demand higher. sass & bide's fall 2011 girl is still part of a tribe, but she's no longer a warrior. Colours may be bold (a fact that is a somewhat refreshing change from last season's black, white and gold) but cuts are relaxed and the sense of power and confidence has been brushed aside; the ethnographic prints and vibrant block colour pieces are not without charm, but nor do they carry the wow factor we've come to expect from dynamic duo Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke. It's a collection that attempts a change in direction, and carries it off, but not with as much cohesion as we would have hoped. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Sass & Bide: boldness without power' New York Fashion Week: Fall 2011 Before London we were making our way around New York Fashion Week to bring you all the latest. Visit our New York Fashion Week portal for the full coverage from the week, or read on for some of the highlights. Prabal Gurung: ready made layering Under the warm lights the catwalk is glowing. Not too strange a fact in itself - lights at a fashion show always have ability to give you a tan - but this is certainly the first catwalk I've noted to have a textured catwalk, such is my vantage point. And so it is that Prabal Gurung's fall 2011 New York fashion week showing opens on a marbled catwalk and Karlie Kloss emerges, like the goddess that she is, to slink down the catwalk and open this showing. And she does so in a red, one shouldered statement dress. The kind that you might label as reminiscent of the recent trend if it weren't for the fact that, with the cut slanted across her chest, she does it so much justice. Statement red soon fades to winter off-whites and black. Black lace and black sheers on which the opening is reduced to an accent colour on the pieces. And this is collection with accents galore. Mostly accents of layers, with different cloths layered upon one another. And there in lies its real strength. Most winter collections look to provide fashionisers with a plethora of layers, conscious that they're going to spend autumn and winter taking layers on and off as they go about their business. Prabal Gurung has by passed that, instead mostly creating layers within each indivual piece. Sometimes they're in silvers, other times in crochet. Sometimes they're matt, though more often with a sheen to them, though pieces even exist at the other end of the spectrum in all their sparkled glory. On the whole though, the collections layers are done in ruffles but, at their best, done in sheers. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Prabal Gurung: ready made layering' Backstage at Diesel Black Gold Backstage at Diesel Black Gold's fall 2011 show, models are smouldering. Hair is side-slicked into a rough, textured style that manages to traverse the territories of rock-chic and romance all at once, and make-up is as hard as the collection's tough leather pieces. Creating a perfectly coherent look isn't always easy, but creative director Sophia Kokosalaki just gets it. Today's completed look at Diesel is in perfect unity with the collection. The beauty look is all about the eyeliner, makeup artist extraordinaire Pat McGrath tells Fashionising.com. Specifically, it's lashings of Covergirl's Liquiline Blast being used to create the youthful, sexy look. As the girls and boys are preened and primed for the runway we catch a few moments with models from glamazonian Estonian Karmen Pedaru to Australian darling Bambi Northwood-Blyth - the photos from which you can see at the bottom of this article. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Backstage at Diesel Black Gold' Herve Leger goes glamazon Prior to its unveiling Lubov Azria, one half of the husband and wife design team behind the label, described the Herve Leger fall 2011 collection as glamazon, an armoured retake on the bandage dresses that the fashion house is known for. And she certainly wasn't wrong. Figure hugging as always, this wintery take on a well-established formula is something of a revitalisation of the warrior fashion trend. While others have interpreted the warrior aesthetic as one of cuts and fabric, the latest Leger offering instead communicates its chosen glamazon appeal through adornment. Relying largely on a colour palette in shades of nude, black and white (with the nudes showing a subtle houndstooth pattern), Leger's adornment comes in the form of patent later, and silver and gold embellishments fused into each garment thus avoiding a change to the tight aesthetic the label is known for. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Herve Leger goes glamazon' Ruffian's masculine ruffles The catwalk darkens, leaving only the glaring screens of the crowd's iPhones and Blackberrys to light it. After moments, metre at a time, the white catwalk and, eventually, Ruffian's monogram are illuminated. And out steps model Siri Tollerod, with presence. So much presence, in fact, that my first thoughts have scant to do with Ruffian's fall 2011 offering, and yet there it is. Dark. Richly detailed. Often masculine. Or at least, from the tuxedos to the skirt suits, it's a feminine, dandy take on the coming season. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Ruffian's masculine ruffles' Rebecca Minkoff: urban appeal Should I mention "gypsy fashion" it's likely that a vision of the last incarnation of the trend will materialise in your to mind. At least, that was the case for me and so I carried this false assumption with me to Rebecca Minkoff's fall 2011 showing at New York fashion week, having been previously informed that 'gypsy' is the collection's underlying theme. My imagined picture of the collection was, however, well off the mark. It is instead far more urban and far less gypsy. It has a bohemian tilt, but feels like it's walking a line between having a free spirited attitude and being outwardly conservative. In short, it feels like a collection for the girl who excels at bohemian layering. The sort of girl who effortlessly works a gent's fedora into her wardrobe. A collection that is for the Frida Gustavssons and the Charlotte Kemp Muhls of the world. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Rebecca Minkoff: urban appeal' Jad Ghandour: head turning glamour Updated: All our catwalk pictures from Jad Ghandour's showing are now online and can be found at the bottom of this article. When your show begins with "I used to dream about cars and things, 'bout being a star and things" playing over the music system courtesy of performer Jazmine Sullivan's Famous, you're setting the tone for a collection aimed at those with aspirations. And that was precisely what for Jad Ghandour, protege to Elie Saab, did with his latest offering. Showing at New York fashion week, Ghandour revealed a glamourous take on fall 2011. One of party dresses and long gowns. One that mixes blacks with colours and embellishments. One that allows the woman wearing it to set the tone for how she wants to be perceived. One that had a distinct and welcome point of difference from the casual offerings that have so far dominated this city's latest offerings to the fashion world. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Jad Ghandour: head turning glamour' Kevork Kiledjian: defining the little black dress The fact that there in the front row sat Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, daughter of former Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld, left me in no doubt that Kevork Kiledjian's New York fashion week showing would have visual impact. Those in the front row, when carefully invited, often give a hint of precisely what's in store, and Julia sat there in a hot little shoulderless number that mixed mesh with leather. And so Kevork Kiledjian gave us just the impact I expected, from his front row to his catwalk, from his music to his cuts. Kiledjian's take on the coming fall 2011 season is a collection of dresses, leathers, lace and sheers, and flares. All of them, even those that failed to work in the face of better pieces from the same collection, are heavily sexed up. Simplistic, perhaps even crass, to say but that's precisely what this collection is about. Some pieces have micro short hems. Others are offered with trains that lashed behind the model as she pounded the catwalk. And between both cuts are some that are more demure in having floor length hems. But no matter the length of cut, it was clear that this is a collection all about defining precisely what a dress can be. In doing so it made it clear that this was a collection for women who simply have that it quality in abundance. The Restoin-Roitfelds of the world. The fashionisers with a rock-chic edge. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Kevork Kiledjian: defining the little black dress' Derek Lam: wearability perfected Update: You'll now find all the catwalk pictures, including a number of detail shots, at the bottom of this article. A mix of the sleek and the sumptuous, Derek Lam's autumn / fall 2011 collection took to the runway of New York fashion week with look after look streaming out onto the catwalk with such frequency that it hosted up to four models at any given time. It's unlikely that most would have noticed, however, with each look clearly capturing the focus of the crowd. Where others have turned to excessive detail to do just that, Lam's next collection is one of subtlety. At times minimalist and at other times classically detailed, Lam opted to to avoid any one aesthetic. Instead, throughout this collection, different looks and feels are tied together by overt quality and an obvious wearability that ranged sumptuous furs to jumpsuits with a sheen. 
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