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What's going on? The Red or Dead show was scheduled to start at 10.45am and it almost did! Trust Wayne Hemingway to break with London Fashion Week's legendary custom of starting everything at least 45 minutes late! 'Beautiful Freaks' was the magical mixture of daftness and daring we've come to expect from Red or Dead. A slide projector at the rear of the catwalk announced that "f.u.ck is a trademark of the U.K" and the soundtrack offered Nirvana classics, Radiohead and cheesy 80's hits ('Escape' and 'Summer Breeze' - yuk!). The spring/summer look for women is a gentle retro blend of synthetics, baby florals and patchwork Holly Hobby prints. The childhood theme contrasts nicley with super-skinny mini dresses, micro shorts and boob tubes. Dresses are short and feature drawstrings at the bust, or tight and tarty leather with back splits and piping. Pedal pushers with hipster waists appear alongside short and girly floral frocks, cropped gypsy tops (off the shoulder) and tight-fitting track suit jacket tops. For chaps, shorts are long and narrow, tank tops are V-necked and some feature diamonds (Wayne's homage to menswear label Pringle). The Hawaiian shirt is back and now available with matching shorts. As well as leather jackets there are classic cotton coach jackets and white track suits with luminous yellow panels and red trims. For women there's white stilettos (which one model had to remove because she couldn't walk) and spiked-heeled pixie boots. The finalŽ frock looked like a mint green towel with a plastic beaded blind attached - gorgeous! The colour palette focuses on baby blues, soft and shocking pinks and muted purples. It takes you back, and that's exactly the point isn't it?
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