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

From Withnail to with style: Richard E Grant steals show on Burberry catwalk

Actor Richard E Grant on Burberry catwalk at London fashion week on Monday.
Actor Richard E Grant presents a creation at the Burberry catwalk show during London fashion week on Monday. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Thirty-eight years after his film career began in a swaggeringly shabby coat in Withnail and I, Richard E Grant gave us another pop culture moment at the last show of London fashion week, modelling a rather smarter olive tweed number on the Burberry catwalk.

A starry line-up at Tate Britain on Monday also included White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs and Lesley Manville (Naomi Campbell was relegated to the supporting cast.) It was the heartwarming feelgood ending that a muted London fashion week badly needed.

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