Designers rock runway for London Fashion Week

The biannual London Fashion Week finished Sept. 17, after a week of fashion highlights and successes as designers displayed their spring and summer 2025 collections.

The week marks London’s 40th year of LFW. According to LFW’s website, the event’s goal is to highlight London’s position as a “world-leading cultural capital.” As the designers showed off their creations to all in attendance, many notable looks walked the runway. Here are the top four brands of the week:

Burberry

Burberry’scatwalk took place at the Royal National Theatre in London, where the brand creatively displayed ready-to-wear looks for the outdoors. The show’s theme was meant to highlight the end of the summer months as outfits dawned pastel shades and resembled a flower meadow.

Notable looks from the runway show included various dresses, which appeared to be draped with silver and gold sequins. The models moved down the runway with flair and grace as the sequins bounced around them. Various necklines made the dresses unique from each other keeping the runway interesting and different.

Jackets played a large role in Burberry’s runway show as well. Jackets of all styles, including button-ups and leather, walked the runway. A popular look appearing on the runway was coats dawning feathers and ties. The extra additions made the coats in particular difficult to ignore.

APUJAN

APUJAN’s runway show was one with a clear theme throughout the show. The show’s theme was “Mirror, Keys and Drink Me,” which referred to “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland.”

While the garments were the focal point, large props completed a few shown pieces. The props included items relating to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” such as a watch, a chess piece and a stuffed cat. The items complemented the looks and created an illusion of force perspective as shrinking is a large part of the “Alice” story.

The garments themselves included many asymmetrical elements, completing the psychedelic world of Wonderland. Accessories anchored a few pieces that walked the catwalk. Hats played a large role in the show as they added a fun element to many pieces. 

MYL BERLIN

MYL BERLINwas a runway show and a performance. The show began with models moving around the stage in intricate and interesting ways. The runway is complete with a swing a model moved through. 

The jungle-like scene was perfectly designed for the catwalk’s theme, “Metamorphosis.” The theme was made to represent MYL BERLIN’s designer, Sebastian SK. He spent his life in Germany with a passion for fashion, yet he was afraid to embrace his full potential because of fear of not fitting into the social norm. The “Metamorphosis” collection represents SK breaking out of his shell and embracing his identity. 

The outfits themselves fully embody SK’s vision. The runway is full of powerful colors such as reds, blacks and whites. Various textures, such as mesh and leather, were frequent in the collection. The combination of these fabrics created a harsh yet powerful look, which was completed by intense makeup. 

Erdem

Inspired by “The Well of Loneliness,” Erdem Moralıoğlu created a collection based on the work by Radclyffe Hall. The story tells of a woman living as a man, and the book was banned from circulation in 1928. The garments tell a story of femininity and masculinity and create a beautiful picture for fashion enthusiasts.

The looks were dawned with jewel accents and embroidered appliques that complete every look. Florals were also a common theme throughout the garments, with gender concepts more prominent throughout the runway.

“Radclyffe was most famous for writing ‘The Well of Loneliness,’ which has become a kind of queer, lesbian bible of sorts,” Moralıoğlu said in a Vogueinterview.

The looks of dresses and soft silhouettes contrasted with the suit jackets and powerful forms in the collection. The contrast made the collection interesting yet uniform. 

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