IT'S not often that you leave a show and hear people actually say that they're almost in tears, but it really happened on the way out of Christopher Kane this morning (they won't let me tell you who they are though, sorry).
Kanye West (who didn't cry), flanked by Jade Parfitt and Laura Bailey, the Misshapes, Talullah Harlech, Eliza Doolittle, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Erin O'Connor were in the front row - but they didn't really warrant a mention once the clothes got going.
It started with pale leather-look shift dresses, slashed diagonally up from the hips and across each elbow, that from a distance glimmered as if they were wet but as they came closer we saw they were smothered in fine gold and silver embellishment.
Shorts and matching jackets shimmered by with matching rubber soled sandals, then pale mint leather mini-skirts were teamed with oversized sleeveless cricket jumpers, and more mini dresses in pale and bronze brocade or thick tailored grey nylon featured bold black and white, glitter fringed applique - the flowers then repeated as clutch bags carried alongside.
Later the bold, glittering prints became bright plastic fridge magnet embellishments on nude chiffon dresses overlaid in shimmering organza that made an optical illusion out of each dress.
Then the arrival of a twinkling, embellishment story was heralded by a touch of glitter on each knee of a pair of frayed jeans, before tactile, densely encrusted sparkling mini dresses, jackets and mini-skirts went by in a line-up of what will surely be known as the London Fashion Week crown jewels.
"It was lovely, so light, just gorgeous," said Lucinda Chambers after the show. "It was such a modern way to do embellishment. I loved it."
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With thanks to Mercedes Benz.