‘Kate effect’ designers to create a buzz

WITH a flash of colour and the click of a stiletto heel, London Fashion Week opens today with a showcase of work from Irish designer, Paul Costelloe.

After another seven months in which the sartorial choices of Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, have continued to grip fashion-watchers here and in Britain, styles and designers favoured by her are expected to create a buzz.

Among these is Montreal-born, London-based Erdem, in whose creations Kate stepped out on her summer visit to Canada.