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Wayne Hemingway was on BBC1's 'Live and Kickin' telling the kids how to make it big in fashion whilst his autumn/winter collection showed at the Natural History Museum. Entitled 'A Trip Across America' Wayne twists our memory dials through a variety of ideas and impressions and takes us on a sartorial cruise through the heartlands. The sheepskins in Alaska are ice white and electric blue with the seams showing. In Seattle it's hooded jumpers and random knitwear; lots of laddered looks from ragged hemmed skirts to chunky mohair jumpers worn with hippy pouch bags. Huge mittens are attached by safety pins to women's fluffy jumpers. The man's look is polo necks, check shirts, the odd beard and plenty of stripes. Through Salt Lake City and Middle America womenswear is urban grunge: purple muffs, denim waistcoats, spearmint leather blousons and animals on mohair jumpers. Grandma and grandad model sheepskins and win extra applause but the climax for me happened before the clothes appeared when a jet-black haired crooner by the name of 'The King' serenaded us before the show with 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and 'Come As You Are'. Pure magic.
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