As London Fashion Week celebrates its 40th anniversary, Sarah Mower looks back at the history-making inaugural event and the four decades of creative capital it inspired.
London Fashion Week never existed until 1984, when a mysterious tent went up outside the Commonwealth Institute on Kensington High Street. I remember it because I’d been walking past, heard music pumping, gone around the back, waited for a security guard to look in the other direction and snuck in through a gap in the tent.
It then devolved into a staggering, disturbing, fantastic performance on vanity, insanity and narcissism: spectacular dresses, bound heads, towering castles-in-the-sky headdresses, and full grandiose break-downs acted out by Jade Parfitt, Erin O’Connor, Kate Moss and the rest. Then there was a sensation of a whole different order the season Christopher Bailey brought Burberry back to London in 2009 .
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