London Fashion Week DAY 1

Our objective was simple: put Status Symbols and Collect-ive on the radar at London Fashion Week...

We began by heading up to Vauxhall Fashion Scout, where a lovely young lady offered to put our postcards on the seats of the Julia Smith show.... Then onto the Royal College of Art and the Art Fair where we dropped off postcards and posters. So far so good.

We then headed over the the V&A to check out the scene of visitors and gave some flyers to a select few, before stopping off at the Young British Designers: Mapping Future Fashion Event to do some style scouting, where we spotted fantastic shredded union jack dresses by Saint Martin's MA graduate Thomas Vicary, and this partygoer in the coolest military jacket, which was our find of the day!

We spent most of the day scouting for street style outside the main entrance to the BFC tent at the Natural History Museum, look at these great snaps of fashionistas in royal inspired clothing. We particulary loved Alex's tartan dress (we believe it was the D&G one!) who we spotted having lunch in Pret but didn't wish to snap her with a mouthful of salad, so when we saw her (many) hours later we seized our opportunity and got a fabulous photo on her way into the Central Saint Martin's MA Show.

We even managed to snap Anne Lomax from the British Fashion Council as she dashed out of the Tents, wearing a Twenty8Twelve union jack punk inspired dress.

Hoards of students buzzed around outside the tents for the CSM show, hoping to be allowed access into the coveted spot of the day. Try as we might to blag our way in, it was to no avail. The word on the street was that the tickets were ranked, and some silver ticket holders were turned away! Still a fabulous day despite not getting into any shows, and some insider reports are heading this way soon....

Steph and Eve