Vogue Festival 2013

This years Vogue Festival, at the Southbank Centre, got off to a great start today with talks from J.W.Anderson, Mary Katrantzou, Natalie Massenet, Paul Smith and Michael Kors, among many others. I was lucky enough to go to the talks by Natalie Massenet and Paul Smith being interviewed by Alexa Chung and, from an aspiring designer's point of view, found them both extremely inspiring and helpful. Not only was it amazing to be in the presence of such aspirational and successful people, their talks also had anecdotes and quotes which I feel are going to help me, and other young designers, in their path to success. I'll do a blog post of each to share some of what I got out of the talk.

Designer to watch out for...

This week, I'm loving the designer Alexis Mabille! He's a French designer who worked at Dior, alongside John Galliano, for 9 years. Mabille began his own line in 2005 and since then has burst onto the fashion scene creating a new look for old fashioned minimalism.

The combination of fitted bodices, slim waistlines and floaty skirts creates a flattering silhouette and the flower and bow details make up for the lack of colour.

This is possibly the most inspiring minimalism I've seen since Dior's New Look and I will definately be keeping an eye out for Mabille in the future!