London Fashion Week: Jasper Conran goes green
LONDON (AP) — London Fashion Week is emphasizing downtown chic this year over British tradition, abandoning its home in the venerable Somerset House on the River Thames for a converted parking garage in Soho. At the glitzy five-day fashion extravaganza on Saturday, the audience appeared with more expensively-torn jeans than with neckties. Here's a look at some London Fashion Week shows: JASPER CONRAN Jasper Conran started things off Saturday by showing shades of green in a series of relaxed outfits comprising his spring and summer 2016 collection. The pieces were a confident celebration of summer, with easy lines, clean detailing and a minimum of fuss. Models wore their hair long and natural. Dozens of shades of green were on display, some in prints, some standing alone, others mixed with white. The designer seemed to be running out of adjectives to explain the pallet: "leaf green prints" or "bottle green" or "avocado." He put an emph...