The Burberry Collection 2012

For fall 2012, Burberry chief artistic officer Christopher Bailey continued to specialize in the label’s own complete of class with a showing of contemporary outerwear. Employing a color palette of neutrals with accents of olive-green, amber, plum and teal; the Burberry lady stands out with the season’s robust silhouettes and detailing.Tailored coats matched with flared skirts and ruched bow belts convey a flirty edge to the structural shapes. wealthy materials of silk, velvet, wool and lace juxtapose the balance between class and coolness for the upcoming autumn season.

There’s a definite atmosphere of one thing softer and additional romantically English country house–like around Christopher Bailey’s pre-fall Burberry assortment.


It’s not that he’s plunged utterly into a vintage narrative, however there’s a feel of a thirties aristocratic house party within the long, slim, langorous crêpe evening dresses with their puffed sleeves, the good tailored coats with fitted, seamed waists, the corduroy jackets and slender skirts with peplumed pockets, the muted colours and vaguely chintzy chrysanthemum prints. Agreed, the slender flares, military bomber jackets, and sweaters with an owl cartoon on the front are hardly “period” dress—these are the expected continuations of Burberry’s young, up to date items. Still, despite the stylized manner Burberry pictures its lookbooks, there’s enough of the Nancy Mitford heroine (or is it Wallis Simpson?) concerning this assortment to hazard a guess at what the most Burberry assortment would possibly seem like by the time it’s absolutely fledged for the runway show in London in February. Even the accessories that are on exhibit at Burberry’s large headquarters on Horseferry Road provide a touch concerning the thirties analysis that has to are done by the planning groups. On display: modernized cloches, felt hats that wouldn’t look out of place walking the moors at Balmoral, and new, box-shaped evening luggage whose ancestry clearly goes back to Art Deco Bakelite minaudières.