fuk.co.uk goes off-schedule

Our coverage of London Fashion Week spring/summer 2004 focuses on off-schedule events. This season, the creeping mainstream monotony of the official catwalk shows organised by the British Fashion Council has led us away from the tents and the champagne receptions, into a tube/bus challenge to cover an underbelly of fashion events in central, east and west London.

Show Reports

Backstage Reports

Here you'll get an insiders' look at some of what happens before the models reach the catwalks. The designer's work is usually done and it's the job of the stylist, hair and make-up artists and choreographer (if there is one) to ensure that everything looks and runs exactly as it should.

Depending on budget, temperament and taste, backstage can be an oasis of calm - as it was at Johann Bester's National Army Musuem show - or a mad house. Debonair Debonair's backstage was particularly wild: models were made-up in the label small shop inside the Portobello Green, but finishing touches took place outside in the shopping arcade. In the area behind the catwalk random madness reigned.

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