LONDON—Models and fashion insiders have descended on the British capital for London Fashion Week, the biannual style showcase featuring a five-day whirlwind of runway shows, parties and celebrity-spotting. Here are some of the day’s highlights as the event kicked off Friday.
New Digs, New Vibe
London Fashion Week has found a new home — and it’s a parking lot.
Fashionistas and models are making themselves comfortable at central London’s Brewer Street Car Park, an unremarkable building that has been transformed for a week into a catwalk space and a glamorous showroom for clothes, bags and shoes.
It’s a far cry from the event’s old headquarters, the stately, elegant Somerset House on the banks of the Thames. But the car park is smack in the heart of bustling Soho, right in the middle of the capital’s densest concentration of shopping streets, theaters and gay bars.
It’s gritty, brash — and very much London.
