ALISON CATCHPOLE

‘You can have it any colour you like…’ In the so-called Roaring Twenties, Mr Henry T Ford told the newly enabled car-buying population that ‘you can have it any colour you like, as long as it’s black’. His namesake, Mr Tom Ford, seems rather more versatile. Tom Ford’s catwalk events really are as good you’ve heard. The showmanship, the atmosphere, the FROW, the champagne – and then there’s the clothing. From sparkling floor-length gowns emblazoned with pop art lightning fl

Going bananas in pyjamas. The challenge with pyjama-style fashions is that unless they are perfectly executed, they really do look as if you didn’t have time to get changed. Which may be OK if you don’t mind or you want to save time in the mornings, or if the ever-reliable Paul Smith is in charge. His latest offering brought nightwear into the LFW daywear arena with a characteristically witty show. Even former model Coco Rocha was getting into the party spirit as she slipped

London. Wet and wonderful, and ever stylish. Home to Burberry under the skilled and purposeful guidance of Christopher Bailey. In case you don’t know, forty something Yorkshireman Bailey, son of a joiner and an M&S window dresser, was nurtured in the early stages of his career by Donna Karan and then Gucci under Tom Ford. He joined Burberry in 2001, invited by then CEO Rose Marie Bravo, and has been there ever since, even suggesting her successor Angela Ahrendts in 2006, with

Jasper Conran was destined to be creative. BFC Designer of the Year in 1986, his great talent is in still being relevant today. His shows are consistently precise and feminine. The girls look comfortable and youthful, elegant and expensive. There are no cheap tricks, with handfuls of very classical fairy dust in the shape of sequinned skirts and laser cut outs. With the Conran name in the UK comes both a design and a literary heritage, in the form of Habitat guru Sir Terrence