LONDON — From Burberry’s soft weekender bags to Erdem’s rose earrings and Emilia Wickstead’s pillbox hats, accessories were hard to miss during London Fashion Week, which ended Tuesday.
Brands leaned into warmth and comfort, with designs made from materials including faux fur and knitted fabric. They opted for muted color palettes with warm browns, earthy greens and pops of red.
Holzweiler offered up oversize puffy crossbody bags and felt messenger bags with knitted fringe in colors including light blue and purple. The brand also had a quilted shoulder bag in black and red tie-dye.
There were knitted handbags at JW Anderson, too, in shades including white and lilac. The brand’s Corner bag, which debuted last February, came in different variations. One style had a furry exterior and another had a tassel top handle.
For his third collection as Burberry’s chief creative officer, Daniel Lee designed roomy bags that chimed with his camping theme. A weekender bag came in earth-toned leather, fur, and the brand’s classic check pattern, while a slouchy crossbody was adorned with zippers and a massive fur pom-pom key ring.
The brand also accessorised its looks with long scarves in Burberry’s signature check looped around models’ necks, and paired with styles including chunky coats and ribbed knit dresses.
Susan Fang envisioned a fantasy world which she narrated through bags. Her surreal designs included honeycomb shapes, holographic effects and florals. They were produced using various 3D-printing techniques as part of the brand’s sustainability push.
Ancuta Sarca also prioritized sustainability with a design made from deconstructed velvet hoodies in a rainbow of ruby red, orange brown and mustard yellow.
Conner Ives and Emilia Wickstead focused on hats. Wickstead, whose collection focused on the style of midcentury Manhattan women, sent out pillbox hats, while Ives favored beige trappers, and Holzweiler went for beanies.
Others favored statement jewelry.
Designer Erdem Moralioglu turned roses into gold brooches and earrings in a collection inspired by Maria Callas. Drop earrings with pearls and gemstones with gilded edges were another addition for fall. Similarly, Conner Ives used flowers and leaves as ornaments on shoelace chokers.
As part of an ongoing design narrative Completedworks worked elements such as pearls, gems and bows into earrings, necklaces and rings.
British actress Joanna Lumley performed at the brand’s presentation, reciting a poem called “Confessions of Lilith,” written by author Fatima Farheen Mirza.
“It is a great innovation to commission a poem from a very beautiful poetess, and then to have this staged scenario of half dream world, half real world,” Lumley said backstage.
