Spring/Summer 2013 Meadham Kirchhoff

MOULIN ROUGE met Little Bo Peep this afternoon at Meadham Kirchhoff's spring/summer 2013 show – one that continued with the super sweet and flowery trends we’ve been seeing at London all week.

           

There were screens placed all the way down the catwalk with bunches of flowers arranged just so beside them and an ornate armchair for the models to elegantly loiter around or linger upon as they made their entrance. And when they did, they turned out to be some way between Mary Poppins, Minnie Mouse (though that reference was on purpose and part of a special celebration collaboration), and Can Can girls. But that’s the thing about the Meadham Kirchhoff duo, Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff – you know you’re going to be taken into some sort of surreal world but you can never quite be sure of which one. You just have to stay tuned and go with it.
The models played along for today’s game, walking airily and mystically down the catwalk in their over-smothered ribbon boaters; their embellished Edwardian bodices atop be-bustled short skirts, petticoats layered over the top; huge puffy-sleeve corseted jackets; and layers and layers of frills and flounces, feathers, bows and ribbons.

It was a very concentrated collection to begin with – of all things embellished, ornate, decorated, textured, jewelled and encrusted, but then it worked its way into the more wearable realms, still loud and proud but less costume-y. So jackets turned into white denim variations of what we had just seen and bodices were worn over T-shirts, those full skirts worn with just a long-sleeved grunge one. It didn’t last for too long though.
With Shirley Temple ringlets in their hair and every type of ornamentation going, these boys were certainly in the running for the sweetest collection of London Fashion Week.