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Trailblazing female artists inspire bold styles at Roksanda and Emilia Wickstead
Designers deliver dramatic and very different aesthetics that pay tribute to pioneers who inspired them
On the 16th floor of a Brutalist office block, actor Joely Richardson chatted in the front row at the Roksanda London fashion week show, her salmon-pink two-piece accessorised with kingfisher tights and dramatic hand gestures. Photograph: Stuart C Wilson/Getty ImagesOil paintings of admirals and a marble bust of the Victorian explorer Lady Jane Franklin loomed over the wooden galleries, a catwalk for the day for the demure-with-a-twist clothes for which Wickstead is famed: a sugar-pink ballerina-length strapless cocktail dress, courtly tailoring in baby blue. Photograph: WWD/Getty Images“She was asking questions about the planet and our society’s priorities, years before global warming was understood,” said designer Ilinčić, who paid homage to Denes with harvest golds and pale straw tones, and opulent fringe trims that whispered in movement-like ears of wheat in the breeze.
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