London (AFP)

One has successfully converted into fashion, the other celebrates 50 years of its brand, the third is the queen of color: designers Victoria Beckham, Margaret Howell and Roksanda confirmed their talents on Sunday, at the third London Fashion Week day.

- Victoria Beckham's "sweet revolutionary" -

For her fall / winter 2020/21 collection, Victoria Beckham wanted to "pay homage to tradition while defying convention. Being subversive but also sophisticated," she explains in her collection notes. This game with codes, "this is what I call my sweet revolution".

Fluid black dresses worn with platform boots that would not have been denied by his former Spice Girls companions, culottes in small checks enlivened by a yellow sweater, turtleneck sweater dress with diamonds cut in the sleeves: for his fall collection / winter 2020/21, the designer explains that she "thought about the tension between refinement and rebellion".

The models paraded on reflective floors in the magnificent Banqueting House, in the heart of London, under a ceiling painted by Rubens.

The designer stealthily came to greet the audience at the end of the parade, dressed in a white silk blouse and high-waisted black pants.

After years in New York, the ex-Spice Girl returned to his homeland in 2018 and celebrated its tenth anniversary with a parade organized for the first time in the British capital.

She has since launched into cosmetics with Victoria Beckham beauty.

- Happy Birthday Margaret! -

Briton Margaret Howell is celebrating this year the 50th anniversary of her brand, which is sold worldwide, with around one hundred points of sale in Japan. She started making handmade accessories shortly after graduating from the Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College at the University of London in 1969.

"I started by designing clothes for men, then I discovered that women wanted them," says the designer on her website.

Attached to designing authentic and time-resistant products, she remained faithful to so British materials like Harris tweed and Scottish wool and cashmere.

For Fashion Week, she presented her fall / winter 2020/21 collection in the building housing the Rambert dance company, not far from the Thames. Women parade in striped high-waisted suit pants, tie casually tied at the side. Pleated skirts or shirt dresses are worn with socks going just below the knees, in eggplant, taupe, black or lime green tones.

The men wear wide pants rolled up at the ankles, with high boots and rain hats, a style comfortable in the countryside as in the city.

- Roksanda, queen of color -

Present at London Fashion Week since 2005, the Serbian Roksanda Ilincic seduces the stars, from Kate Middleton to Melania Trump via the actress Cate Blanchett who attended the front row at her fashion show on Sunday. It was organized at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a majestic courtyard surrounded by three floors of granite columns, surrounding a marble floor.

Anglo-Bangladeshi artist Rana Begum hung brightly colored fishing nets on it, which stood out in the classic decor.

To better bring out the light, Roksanda introduced a deep black into some of his creations, inspired by the American expressionist painter Lee Krasner, whose work was marked by the death of her husband the painter Jackson Pollock in a car accident.

"I enjoyed this very moving trip: start with the color, enter into this mourning and rediscover the color," explained the designer behind the scenes.

The fabrics are juxtaposed and the materials intermingle, with a dress mixing garnet imitation leather with Japanese wool jersey or a hand-knitted coat, where the relief springs up in the form of braids and multicolored giant bows.

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