No one was more surprised than medieval armourer Matthew Finchen. One of the most memorable looks from all of London Fashion Week was not made in an airy studio in Stoke Newington, but crafted with a forge and anvil in Mansfield Woodhouse, the town in Nottinghamshire.
This season Finchen, owner of Lancaster Armoury, who is on a mission to keep the “back-breaking”, highly-skilled tradition alive, was in luck, for the new style pin-ups are not waif-looking supermodels sucking cigarettes in the Nineties but the knights and heroines that fill up history books.
