Models splash through a sea of colour

Yesterday Hamish Morrow proved London Fashion Week is still the centre for nurturing fresh young creativity.

Yesterday Hamish Morrow proved London Fashion Week is still the centre for nurturing fresh young creativity.

For his first on-schedule fashion collection, the South African-born designer produced a tightly edited show that recalled the exciting theatre and imagination of Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen.

Models presented an all-white collection inspired by sportswear fabrics and luscious frilled and asymmetric silhouettes.

Fifteen models in fine cotton voile asymmetric shirts, long Aertex dresses with knife-pleat skirts, and belted nylon mesh jackets twinkling with crystal-beaded harnesses stepped through a pool of purple dye.

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Like a piece of performance art, the dye left its colourful imprint on trailing skirts and white leather bootees, while long drips filled with more dye and hanging from the ceiling left their imprint on gilets and shirts.

Morrow's concept, the evolution of function, sounds very highbrow, but beneath it was a very commercial and inspiring collection.

Rocha's collections are a fusion of Eastern sensibility, expressed in pure easy silhouettes, and a huge respect for Western craft and tradition.

His experience in architecture seems to subconsciously influence his work.

Clean geometric silhouettes inspire the shape of his tailoring and the prints and embroideries he uses to decorate them.

Betty Jackson's spring collection sizzled with the heat and vibrancy of Cuba.

Flounced cotton and lace blouses tucked into frilled tulle white skirts, trouser suits with cigarette-slim pants trailing colourful ribbon streamers and white coats painted with flowers illustrated the Caribbean spirit dressed in its Sunday best.