Designers wow ’em on catwalks

LONDON Fashion Week revved up a gear on the catwalks around Chelsea yesterday as some of the biggest names in British design made day two of the week-long spectacle one to remember.

While the scheduled shows of which there are about 10 a day were keeping the fashion pack busy as they moved from venue to venue across the city, off-schedule events proved no less exciting with the opening of the London Designer's Exhibition at Fashion Week's base on King's Road.

Amongst the 110 designer's to partake in this season's exhibition is renowned Irish milliner Philip Treacy, who had decided against staging a catwalk presentation in London in favour of showing his wares in New York next week.