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London Fashion Week A/W 2010 Catwalk Review: Basso & Brooke

A review of the Basso & Brooke catwalk show in the BFC tents at Somerset House, where we got given wine and I bumped into a number of strange characters...

Written by Amelia Gregory

Basso & Brooke a/w 2010 by Katie Harnett
Basso & Brooke by Katie Harnett.

I was running late for this show due to the evil evil cocktails at the Laden Showrooms website launch party in the concrete house at the end of my street. (It's on sale for £2.2 million. Nuts. I've been in there and it ain't all that: it's like the interior of a multi-storey carpark.)


The rooftop view from the house on Bacon Street, complete with poncey rainbow fibre optic light display.

As I hurtled into the courtyard of Somerset House I passed a girl I haven't seen since I left the University of Brighton back in the mid 90s, so I sort of waved, aghast, at her. Inside I sat down next to a sniffy man who I once knew vaguely long ago, and who literally turned his nose up at me, and then turned his back. I don't think I did smell but I… read more

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