Womens Fashion By Joanne Louise

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Project Catwalk Week 5 Series 3   

Fashion Future The remaining designers went East this week and were whisked off to Brick Lane, the trendy heart of London’s East End - where they were greeted by the multi-coloured designer du-jour, Henry Holland, famous for his extravagant printed t-shirts featuring risqué slogans. 

Henry‘s challenge for the team was to ‘divine inspiration’ and create ‘fashions next big trend’ by reinterpreting ideas from the past. To start them on their fashion forward journey, he took the team back in time to vintage clothing emporium ‘Beyond Retro’. Giving each a budget £75 to spend in just 20 minutes, on items that would inspire them or could be re-worked in to something that was truly ‘cutting-edge’. Jasper instantly took to some silver netting and conjured up an idea based on a ‘1950s - future robot’. Confused? So was Viv, who was at a loss of where to begin, realising that this challenge was one that would require her to start thinking outside the box and come up with something original. 

Back in the work room, Fionnuala was feeling confident with her design and colour choices, a grey and red military tailored dress, until mentor Ben De Lisi brought her down with to earth with a great big, thud. His critique of her military coloured layered dress was so savage it left her in tears. The twist this week, came in the from of a party thrown by HH at a hip London club, at which the designers would present their models in their designs to a fashion journalist, who would be critiquing their work, and then writing up her thoughts on the style site vogue.com, which frankly is almost like getting into the hallow magazine itself, right? 

But not everyone’s ideas of where Fashion is heading struck gold with journo Louise Roe, Clinton’s disappointed her, as too much metallic was not her thing, but her article the next day revealed she liked Viv’s “Audrey Hepburn” style Dress, with a modern take and Jasper’s design was something she had never seen before. Poor old Ross didn’t even get a mention in the review she wrote, for it seems as the amount of alcohol consumed by the young man had taken its toll before she made it round to him and he could explain his notions of body-architecture.  Judgement day saw Clinton and Fionnuala in the bottom two, Clinton’s jacket saved him just, whilst his harlequin-esque jumpsuit was derided for being, ‘just bad taste’ by judge and mentor Ben DL. Fionnuala’s take on military tailoring also failed to hit the right target for the judges , although she defended herself to the bitter end, but it was never going to be a battle she could win and for her the Project Catwalk campaign was over. Meanwhile, Tom’s avant-garde reworking of the classic white shirt, dazzled the judges and he sailed through to his first blinding victory. Get in!