Just a few of the quotes overheard at Beach Blanket Babylon's after-party last night:

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Irish born designer, John Rocha has come a long way since graduating from Crydon College of Art. Okay, so maybe that's just a little bit of an understatement. Since the 1980s, Rocha has been presenting the world with classic, timless designs. Named British Fashion Designer of the Year in 1993, Rocha now runs his own 'John Rocha', 'John Rocha Jeans', 'Rocha John Rocha' and "John Rocha Jewellery" labels alongside a diffusion clothing, homewear and accessories label for the department store Debenhams.

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After sensing the anticipation about young designer, Kinder Aggugini, in the latest Vogue, I knew it was a show that could not be missed. I say young designer but in actual fact Aggugini's CV reads like the whos who in the fashion industry having worked at the likes of Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Paul Smith.

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The story behind young British design duo Alexander Stanic and Fiona Sinha, that make Sinha Stanic is more than just a fairytale. After showing a capsule collection in London Fashion Week as a part of Fashion Fringe in 2004, they were instantly snapped up by Albertta Ferretti's AEFFE Group and offered a licencing deal. Since then, the duo regained full control of their company and have grown from stregnth to stregnth.

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London has always been known for being at the cusp of emerging design talent. The schedule this year has been a sham. Lots of the big shows are all running at the same time leaving smaller brands in the shade. But something was telling me that the Ana Sekularac show could not be missed. she definitely did not disappoint.

Sekularac presented some of the best experimentation we’ve seen with knitwear since Louise Goldin. Knit dresses in red had chunky knit pieces on the shoulders, sides and breast. Sculptural shoulders were created on knit jumpers in black.

Best of all, Sekularac identifies with the movement of the time and space she is living in; therefore her collections are often developed before its time, apparent in the sci-fi references in the structured shoulders on knitwear.

The designer creates the designs like a couture designer; each garment is made in her fashion atelier where each piece is created by seamstresses and finished by hand. Evening dresses are desperate to make a red carpet appearance and highlighted Sekularac’s great attention to detail.

The Ana Sekularac signatures are the interlocking of colours, neo-modern architectural cut, excellent craftsmanship, superb execution and striking detailing. The Ana Sekularac signature colours are scarlet red and black and every season a third colour is chosen to set the mood.

The collection was full of statement investment pieces such as evening dresses and well made black coats with a ruffled detail on the neckline

Whilst most designers are pulling back from the extravagant show locations that we’ve seen in the past, Graeme Black is moving the opposite way. The show took place in Spencer House, originally owned by Princess Diana’s family and now home to the Rothchilds. Not bad for a designer that showed his debut collection at London Fashion Week in 2005.

The inspiration for the collection was not as planned as Black’s choice in venue. The collection was spurred from a wrong turn in the Natural History Museum into the mineral room.

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What is it with the fashion industry this season? Is everyone listening to the same music and feeling nostalgic about the 80s and 90s at the same time. Designer Charles Anastase was definitely in on that memo citing the ‘spirit of Kurt Cobain’, the legendary member of Nirvana, as an inspiration, which is ironic as I am writing now in the BFC Tent media room with ‘Smells like teen spirit’ playing in the background.

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