Depending on who you follow, your Instagram feed may have been flooded with the image of an oversized inflatable swimming pool dress last night.
So far, so fashion week, right? Well, sort of.
The pool dress featured in the Central Saint Martins MA line-up, which showed at the BFC Space, and is known for launching the careers of fashion's elite (Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Marques'Almeida, Mary Katrantzou, Molly Goddard, the list goes on and on).
So the fashion college is not only intensively creative, but the course actually encourages its students to be radically progressive. That's why the emerging designs are some of the most exciting around. And that's why it's not silly that Edwin Mohney's inflatable swimming pool dress walked down the runway. Or Trumpetto heels, with actual Donald Trump rubber masks fashioned into the stilettos, did their thing last night.
Liam Johnson opened the show and kicked off the surrealism with rigidly hemmed dresses, clown-like oversized suits and big grey triangles the models literally carried down the runway.
Ernesto Naranjo rammed up the layers, shapes and coloured headpieces:
Mohney, from Buffalo, New York, closed the graduate show with some of the show's must out-there/avant garde designs. Aside from the swimming pool, it featured inflatable life-size dummies, Trumpetto heels and red/pink-esque mosquito nets that collected about 30cms above the models head.
'Sultan of sequins' Michael Halpern is the Central Saint Martin's alumnus currently dazzling the fashion scene - and is the school's latest success story. Just two years since graduating, the 29-year-old presented his third third standalone show at LFW and set up his own sequins-centric label. He's not only smashing it, but simultaneously reminding everyone exactly how important this institution is.
