Exhibitors air grievances about LFW

Brands showing at London Fashion Week have challenged the last minute changes in scheduling of The Exhibition after visitor numbers fell by 20 per cent. The catwalks ran from Tuesday to Saturday, but there was a two-day wait before the exhibition began, which ran it's own course until Sunday. Exhibiting brands said the gap confused buyers and numbers fell by 4,000 from 5,000, according to Drapers Record.

London Fashion Week this season, for the first time in 4 years, was visited by Anna Wintour: an enormous publicity boost for the ailing fashion week. A source told Drapers as "There's been a lot of spin about how well the show did and all the people who came. It's all well and good to have top executives from Barney's and Bergdorf Goodman, but those guys don't write orders. The actual buyers were in Milan and Paris."

This was the first LFW under then new British Fashion Council executive Hilary Riva.