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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

From Prue Leith to Romeo Beckham and Lucy Bronze, London fashion week is hard to beat

Prue Leith in a long red puffy dress
Prue Leith made her catwalk debut for Vin + Omi. Photograph: Vin and Omi/PA

Where else can you find Jerry Hall, Romeo Beckham, Prue Leith, Barbara Hepworth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucy Bronze and Marina Abramović all in one place? For an eclectic cast of characters, London fashion week is hard to beat.

Hall starred as a “diva psychic”, using clairvoyant powers to hawk bracelets in a short play by Laura Waldren staged by the jewellery brand Completedworks, while Beckham and Leith made their London catwalk debuts, for H&M and Vin + Omi. Hepworth and Mapplethorpe came along for the ride in spirit, on the moodboards at Roksanda and Emilia Wickstead respectively, while the England footballer Bronze and the performance artist Abramović had front-row seats.

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