London Fashion Week - Simone Rocha

Simone Rocha unveiled her third collection to a packed salon audience at Portland Place. Interestingly, the location is where scenes from The King's Speech was shot. Unlike George VI however, Rocha expressed her design vision with a fluidity and ease that belies her years. Irish model Danielle Winkworth opened the show - a collection of twenty looks anchored in black and white with shots of hot green and pink. A mistress of fabric manipulation, Ms. Rocha played with sheer panelling and overlays on classic shirt fronts adding plastic collars and treated lace skirts - challenging the traditional masculine/feminine interplay. Her signature perspex-heeled floating brogues - this time in summer leather and plastic - were utterly waiting-list worthy. One to watch without a shadow of a doubt.

Edited from my weekend show report in The Irish Examiner. CLICK HERE for the full report.