Queen Elizabeth II created a surprise in 2018 when she appeared at the Richard Quinn fashion show during London fashion week. The image of the monarch, dressed in light blue tweed, joking with her neighbor, Anna Wintour, the editor of vogue, had then charmed all the fashion elite. The 2022 edition of this high mass promises to be more dreary.
The program of fashion shows for the women’s ready-to-wear collections for the spring-summer 2022 season, which was to take place in the British capital from Friday September 16 to Tuesday September 20, has been revised. Scheduled after New York fashion week and before those in Milan and Paris, London fashion week falls during the ten days of national mourning imposed by the precise protocol preceding the funeral of Elizabeth II. The date of this ceremony is not yet public. But, without waiting, two major fashion houses have announced that they are canceling their parade.
Hard blow
” By respect ” for the period of mourning, the luxury brand Burberry confirmed, Thursday, September 8, to give up holding its show scheduled for September 17. It’s a blow for the small world of British fashion. Burberry, a heavyweight in the economy of the sector across the Channel, was to sign its return to the official calendar of London fashion week. In March, a month after the official week dedicated to the autumn-winter collections was held, the luxury brand presented its silhouettes during a banquet in the Central Hall Westminster, a historic building located opposite Westminster Abbey. , in London.
Riccardo Tisci, the artistic director of the tartan brand, then found his audience, after presenting his collections for two years, in 2020 and 2021, only on the Internet, given the health measures imposed by the pandemic. This time, the one responsible for relaunching the British brand since 2018 was to be the star of this official week.
Raf Simons is also forced to give up the presentation of his collections in London, scheduled for Friday, September 16 in the evening. The Belgian designer, co-creative director of the Italian brand Prada, had decided to unveil his creations across the Channel for the first time. He has not “not communicated yet” if he considered rescheduling this event, according to a spokesperson for the brand in France.
Dress code specified
The British fashion chamber, the British Fashion Council (BFC), which manages the organization of the one hundred and ten parades for this 2022 edition, did not, however, call on the designers concerned to dismantle their podium and give up their presentations. For the time being, the federation has made recommendations by inviting brands to cancel the only parades scheduled for the day of the funeral and to give up other events. “non-essential”. The houses will then have to cancel parties, cocktails and other store openings.
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