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As we move on from the season of designer debuts, it is time to look at fashion away from the runway. TWIN stylists, photographers, and teams show us their narratives, and what is making fashion exciting today. What we show is that there are a new elegance and a new relaxed attitude to style. Turn the pages to be inspired and see fashion with a modernity and understated chic that tells the story.

Who wears these clothes must be about style and character; with Miranda Kerr, Jourdan Dunn, and Tsunaina amongst our models this is made abundantly clear. Diversity, like sustainability, may be an overused word but with London, Sydney and Nepal in their profiles TWIN shows this can only be an asset in the casting for image making.

Read about the arts, so closely allied to fashion, where amongst our stories we look to France, Brazil, and Japan. We observe how artist Sonia Gomes and her work with textiles and found details is so closely allied to the fashion wardrobe created by Ronald van der Kemp. When we dive into the never never land worlds of artist Jodefa Ntjamm and of couturier Franck Sorbier we see how they are both story tellers and makers of magic.

Turn the pages of this issue to see how style is about the balance between experience and knowledge, weighing the hand skills of the past with the technology of the future. It is a fact that fashion reflects the world the pieces are worn in; at a time of global political and social uncertainty, TWIN understands this must be a narrative of beauty tempered by reality. 

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Tags: Franck Sorbier, Jodefa Ntjamm, Jourdan Dunn, Miranda Kerr, Ronald van der Kemp, Sonia Gomes, Tsunaina

For Burberry Prorsum’s A/W 12 show, a love of youth and an understanding of heritage both found their place on the catwalk. Reflected in Christopher Bailey’s title Town and Field, this was a collection that melded the sophistication of a urban living with the guts of the country. Skinny tweed pencil skirts and flatcaps were matched with quirky animal cartoon knits for a look that was young socialite on a country shoot – pheasant rather than fashion that is.

The Burberry stamp was firmly placed upon the collection with enough coats and jackets to suit all tastes. There was everything from waxed cotton and cropped puffa jackets to Cara Delevingne in a beautiful dark purple belted princess coat. Throughout the collection the skirt reigned supreme, from tweed pencil skirts with bellow pockets to lace skirts with peplums, the silhouette was nipped at the waist with cute bow belts for Forties flare.

Burberry is undeniably a mega brand moment within London Fashion Week’s calendar, with a front row packed with celebrity fans and a model roster to match. But Bailey perfectly matched the brands worldwide popularity with its place in British fashion tradition. The simmulated downpour of English’s perennial rain to finish, couldn’t have been more apt.

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Tags: Arizona Muse, Burberry Prorsum, Cara Delevigne, Christopher Bailey, Jourdan Dunn, Kensginton Gardens, london fashion week