Or Red to Accessorize...

Lot's of Red...

MY LONDON FASHION WEEK FEB 2011

Day 2: The morning was very wet with torrential rain...

My view-finder kept steaming-up...

The Most Elegent Lady I saw on the first day...

Naturally, she had just attended Caroline Charles. I'm always searching for the definitive 'English Rose" and my search may have concluded...I hope Madonna is in touch with her and that she going to appear in her up-coming movie

Because this woman in an open scene even as an extra, would set the tone and solidly place the movie in that period between the war... If your interested in that period read the diaries of "Chips" Channon or Duff Cooper(Channon as a lifestyle recorder, Cooper for everything else and both can write)

UPDATE DUE SOON: Thanks for confirming "its Emilia Fox - one of the most English of actresses"... I actually have a family connection or it could be five or six degrees of separation but I'll let you all decide… Meanwhile, I need to do the background research and read this>>> The book is about some of the British Regiment's Cavaliers who were "Better known for their elaborate dress than their success on the battlefield, the Cavaliers of the English Civil War have long been regarded as flamboyant libertines. The literary historian John Stubbs looks beyond the lace ruffles and velvet, at the makings of the royalist faction and explains how reading their largely forgotten writings shed new light on one of the most turbulent eras of the country." as discussed on Start The Week on the BBC

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War is published by Viking.

As a tease, I think Miss Fox’s Grandfather my have been my father's CO in the “Family Regiment” Household Division…

(I knew she was a true “English Rose”, even her full name confirms my intuition when I first saw her, Emilia Lydia Rose Fox >>>

The Lady from the Daily Mail...

Who would have guessed? When I had photographed this woman six months ago I do not recall a big rock on her finger then)...Update: the wedding is in June and as I loved to say when I lived in NYC "Mazel Tov"

First Impressions: There is a dystopian vibe is in the air...

Some Of The Faces of the Fashion Business....

London was eletric last night...

Excitement in the air last night, with events all over town, to launch London Fashion Week which starts today.

My first stop was the VOGUE and GUESS Jewellery Event in Knightsbridge...

I had planned on attending all the events I'd promised to photograph at but once I'd gotten settled at Guess I couldn't managed to leave.

A special thank you to Audrey, Hannah and Charlotte for a great evening....

Also, I need to conserve energy to get up early and go to Somerset House to take lots of photos which I will share with you over the coming weeks...

Best Regards, Robert Cassidy, StyleScout LDN

Friction on the Front Lines of Fashion in LDN...

Not till the final day of LFW last season did it get crazy! For example as I got onto one knee to shoot a close-up, this mad student literally pushed in front of me to steel my shot, needless to say I was a little irritated... Knit Collar >>>>

I know a full-moon is looming but yesterday was beyond trying. Especially dealing with some of the smaller understaffed PR firms in LDN (you know who you are)...

Believe me, it's never fun having a PR person meltdown over the telephone and hang-up on you twice... The PR professional I was calling was trying to juggle too many calls simultaneously and misconstruing all their conversations, while repeatedly asking (screeching at) me "what exactly is the purpose of your call?" whilst in the same breath saying to us both "you know what you said!" as I wonder who are they, speaking to us in that tone? Small designers pay good money in good faith, to have to rely on them to promote their names...

They are all mad and the show is not actually scheduled till tomorrow... but it already seems to have kicked off... I hope that style and fashion manages to be as mad as usual, then it all will have been worth it.. because let's be honest that's what keeps people coming back to London...

Loved this woman's look, especially her make-up...

Below, two stylish ladies with tickets to the Vivienne Westwood show last season...

Kitty McGee -who's now, Press Officer for Womenswear at Selfridges (former press officer at the BFC)- and her LFW colleague, still smiling on the last day of last season's fashion week...