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After New York comes London, I hope you like it as much as last weeks video!

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With a queue that went all the way around the venue, actual fans waiting for hours and hours to catch even the slightest glimpse of Rihanna ánd an afterparty that even kept me (partypooper alert) awake, up and running – ermmm dancing – until late (or should I say early?), the collection she came up with for River Island can surely be found in the top 3 most buzzed about shows from London Fashion Week.

Was is the best one? Probably not, it did not make me cry like I did at Burberry*, but it was most definitely fun. The collection is way less ‘swagger’ as I had imagined it to be. I mean there was a lot of exposed midriffs going on on that blue and purple enlightened stage, but it is more toned down and therefor wearable than expected.

So, what I wanted to talk about are high street brands tapping celebrities to design or attach their name to a collection. Anna Dello Russo x H&M, David Beckham x H&M, The Kardashians x just about any brand and Chloe Sevigny x Opening Ceremony (ok, not high street at all, but you catch the drift!)… What do you think of these collaborations in general? Do you buy things more easily when there is a familiar face behind it? Would you pay a higher price for it? Do you think these celebrities actually sat down with a pencil in their hand to draw their ideas on paper or sat down with a team to do it for them ór do you think the high street brands just come up with things that they think would fit the celebrity and ask for an OK? If it is the last one, ís that ok?

I personally think in this case it all just feels very natural and Rihanna seems like the perfect fit for River Island. Anna got to go backstage and shot some perfect footage of a very confident (and super sexy if you ask me, I really believe confidence if one of the sexiest things a woman can have) Rihanna that could not wait to show what shé came up with to the London crowd.

Also, I secretly think this collaboration is a huge step towards introducing and expanding the brand to the United States…

*almost, almost.

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Aaah, backstage at Mary Katrantzou. Enchanting space, enchanting make-up, enchanting vibe…

Make-up by MAC Cosmetics.

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A classic hair look with a tough twist. Just my cup of tea.

Hair by TONI&GUY.

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There have been stories about this circling around the internet for the past couple of days already, but I wanted to share my point of view anyway. Apart from visiting few of the shows, I regularly hang out backstage during all four major Fashion Weeks – partly for a new project I am working on -, have appointments in between, but also very commonly wobble on my heels in between de Tommy Ton’s and Scott Schuman’s to photograph the cool people in looks that I personally think are worth snapping.

Last Friday, on my first day during London Fashion Week, I recall myself holding my camera in my hand waiting for them to arrive. Fact is that they never really came.

Trust me, I am not saying everybody in the city of the Big Ben and the red phone booths is just dressed badly, it sure has a lot to do with taste et all. But I got the feeling it was more about dressing up than getting dressed. There was this guy walking around on heels all day (something that I usually do not find disturbing at all. I mean who declared that it is normal for women to walk on heels, but not for men anyway?) pretending to be blind and another guy was dressed as a sex doll. Final score: one streetstyle picture in four days of London Fashion Week (above). There might have been a few looks that I would have wanted to shoot at Burberry if only I had not been on such a tight schedule.

Now for a little moment there I thought I could have just travelled to the south of the Netherlands to celebrate what we call ‘Carnival’ – a dress up party just as big – taking place during the British week of fashion.

On that same first day, I had a conversation with two well-known streetstyle photographers about London being a complete circus, which was before I read Suzy Menkes ‘The Circus of Fashion’ on T Magazine, a piece Leandra Medine also picked up for publishing her genius own thoughts on this whole thing.

And even if I only joined that ‘circus’ a few seasons ago myself, I am noticing the exact same thing. It is not only about the shows any longer, the what Menkes is calling ‘fuss’ around it not just seems, but is equally as important.

At Lincoln Center, Somerset House or in the Tuileries Gardens, there are bloggers that are looking for a tiny teeny little piece of fame in between the already established ones by hanging around there all day everyday. But I also very regular spot some of the biggest editors pretending to be calling someone or fake-hailing a cab just because they know it looks better on a streetstyle image.

There is a fine line between getting dressed for oneself and getting dressed for either your readers, the photographers, to get attention or even that tiny teeny little piece of fame. Of course have I found myself occasionally letting go of my – quite simple – style a little bit in the past, for the sake of getting photographed. I mean it is easy to either get lost or loose your mind somewhere in between New York and Paris. And if I am being completely truly honest, I even got out on another metro exit once, because I knew that was the place to catch more photographers (and it worked!).

Even though it is absolutely fantastic to get featured on the homepage of American Vogue – that other metro exit might have even been worth it – and I am convinced of the fact it helped me to get where I am right now, getting photographed is of course not what Fashion Week is about.

Fact is, I am still young, I like to experiment with my clothes every once in a while and I am definitely putting more effort in getting dressed in the morning when it is Fashion Week than getting dressed for the office (which is currently my living room), but I find that very logical. Wether it is a green plissé skirt some of you loved to the bones and some of you hated so much you wished you never even followed me in the first place or a pair of heels that made some of you think I had no toes left by the end of the day while I was sweating my *ss off backstage because I was dressed too warm to handle. I get dressed in the morning in something that I want to, not in something that I know will only receive positive comments.

And maybe that is exactly what the pretending blind and the sex doll were up to, even if I find that hard to believe. I am just very curious what’s next? And what should be next? Should we go back to the exclusiveness of the nineties Menkes is talking about? Back to being a crow instead of a peacock? Is that even possible?

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