Basso & Brooke's 'Journey Through Clothes' for S/S'12

Fashion has finally caught up with Basso & Brooke. Inaugural winners of the Fashion Fringe award and pioneers of digital print they may be, but previous collections were declared “difficult” by buyers. Nevertheless, Bruno Basso and Chris Brooke have steadfastly held their course, and next Summer could well be their moment.

You can’t discuss digital prints these days without mentioning

Chutzpah's Weekly Barometer - London Fashion Week special

A light hearted look back over the past week’s good, bad and indifferent including the “don’t even go there’s”.

LOVINGTHE TWENTIES - Blame Marc Jacobs, or maybe next Summer's remake of F.Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' directed by Baz Luhrmann, but the refined elegance of the Roaring Twenties was brought bang up to date by the savviest London designers. Having an impact in Milan's

MARY KATRANTZOU AND SWAROVSKI

AMAZING is an abused and over-used word nowadays, especially on the Internet where it is applied to almost anything of merit. We are not given to hyperbole at Chutzpah Towers; however it would be an understatement to say that Mary Katrantzou rocks our world.

Open a newspaper, or listen to the BBC’s self-fulfilling prophet of doom Robert Peston, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that we are

Chutzpah's Weekly Barometer - LFW special

A light hearted look back over the past week’s good, bad and indifferent including the “don’t even go there’s”.

LOVING

London's Golden Girls  Holly Fulton (catwalk pic, left), Mary Katrantzou, Roksanda Ilincic and Alice Temperley take it to the next level.

High Swishy Ponytails  Slicked back hair and high top ponytails agogo. Time to colour match that hair extension.

Let's Hear It For

Ta da! The Katies - 2010

WINNERS


THE TEAM CHUTZPAH FASHION GENIUS AWARD - Mary Katrantzou. Manolo Blahnik loves her lampshade, the Swiss love her textiles, we love her S/S 2011 collection.  Now the recipient of BFC NewGen sponsorship, we can't wait to see what Mary does next.


THE AWARD FOR MOST CRIMINALLY OVERLOOKED COLLECTION - Richard Nicoll for Cerruti.  Restrained.  Elegant.  The kind of clothes that rich, white