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As readers of my FightForYrWrite blog will know, I'm a huge fan of the American fashion and lifestyle brand Kate Spade New York so, as they prepare for the next phase of their UK store expansion, despite the current sunny spell I wanted to bring you this look at some of my highlights from the new AW12 collection.

In March 2009, Belarusian model Maryna Linchuk opened John Galliano's autumn 2009 show. She was the embodiment of the eastern peasant top to toe; from the headwear to the pointed almost primitive shoes she wore. Two and a half years on, and elements of a similar aesthetic have crept their way back onto runways worldwide, both in Autumn and Resort collections, 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Kate Spade New York does playful uptown girl sophistication like no other. For Autumn though, the all American girl seems to be drawing on her European gap year as ladylike chic, so on trend for Winter, gets a French twist.

What would we do without Whistles? Solving smart women's sartorial dilemmas since the early 1980s, the British brand has become something of an institution.

For the last few seasons, designers have dipped and dabbed in their primary coloured paint pots and mixed around with hues and shades until their collections became bright, bubbling specimens of vibrant colour. But now, the Crayola boxes have been stacked away, paint palettes washed and prepped for a new age; the age of the return of monochrome.

Presented during London Fashion Week in February 2012, Schwab's collection comprised a diverse range of elegant skirts, dresses, and jackets that kept taking to the runway before a very pleased audience.

Comfy, cute with trousers or dresses/skirts and easy to fling on to add some quick cool to any look, creepers are my go-to shoe style when trainers just won't cut it.

Fashion label twenty(2)too unveiled their Autumn/Winter 2012 collection a few months ago during Berlin Fashion Week.

Last week, British designer, the eclectic pink-haired Zandra Rhodes, hosted a dinner party for an intimate group of journalists and I was privileged to be one of the guests

Bodybound's menswear collection for Autumn/Winter 2012 stood out amongst the four menswear labels that showed as part of Vauxhall Fashion Scout's 'Ones To Watch Men' initiative during London Fashion Week.

Any review of E. Taut'z most recent menswear collections needs to start by acknowledging that it is virtually impossible to differentiate between Patrick Grant, the man, and E. Tautz, the label.

British designer Paul Smith showcased his womenswear Autumn/Winter 2012 collection as part of London Fashion Week a few weeks ago. Eschewing the main runway space that the British Fashion Council reserved for most designers, Smith chose (for the second consecutive season) the vast and sumptuous surroundings of the Royal Horticultural Halls.

Having vicariously followed her career via Gabby Young (who frequently wears Inbar Spector ensembles on stage) and Katie Antoniou, and then seeing her...

Since graduating from London College of Fashion (LCF) in 2009 with a BA Menswear degree, Danish designer Asger Juel Larsen has been producing consiste...

The past two seasons, I have missed Bora Aksu's catwalk shows at London Fashion Week, due to it clashing with others. Both times, I have massively regretted not attending, so there was no way I was missing out on the designer's showing of his Autumn/Winter 2012 collection at Somerset House.

With his sharp and yet subtle sartorial designs influenced by uniquely individual perceptions of art, Christopher O'Brien is a designer whose talent and working ethos are to be undoubtedly commended and closely followed.

British supermodel Naomi Campbell returned to the runway on Monday (27 Feb) to close Roberto Cavalli's Autumn/Winter 2012/13 show - the last of Milan ...

One of the most popular menswear runway shows during London Fashion Week is the one that Fashion East and Topman organise under the moniker MAN to display the work of three promising and emerging labels.

Anya Hindmarch's London Fashion Week presentations are legendary for their OTT fabulosity - but this season we think she might just have excelled hers...

For her DAKS womenswear Autumn/Winter 2012 collection in the year that the brand celebrates 50 years as holder of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Warrant, Sheila McKain-Waid took inspiration from the inherent dichotomies and similarities that are found in British landscape and architecture.

Corrie Nielsen is a fashion designer who is clearly not afraid of dissecting the history of British fashion and costume in order to find inspiration for her collections. Whether as manifestly influenced by Elizabethan court and drama costumes or by Victorian dresses and capes, Nielsen's garments are unapologetic embodiments of a personal reclamation of British ancestry.

Fashion designer Georgia Hardinge's star is undoubtedly shining brighter every season. Her Autumn/Winter 2012 womenswear collection, with the title 'Inverted', confirms not only her sartorial ingenuity but also her competent command of print, texture and volume as ways to appropriate art to the service of fashion.

The twisted and dark undertones of Henry Darger's mind and his 15,145-page opus The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the U...

There was something naively perverse and yet intensely British and alluringly eccentric in selecting Antoni & Alison's runway show to open London Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2012/13.