Ashish: London Fashion Week S/S 2012

Heavily use a floral theme Leave it to Ashish to heavily use a floral theme, crafted from multicoloured sequins, for his collection and still come up with an underground Londoner look. We would have skipped

right over this collection had it gone all flower power, but thankfully the ultra-feminine vibe was immediately countered by Goth makeup and hippie-fied military steel-toes.

Working with his favourite embellishment material – sequins – Ashish created a cohesive range of shirts, frocks, shorts and blazers covered entirely in shimmering sunflowers, oxeye daises and all sorts of unidentified flora.

Other pieces combined familiar prints with oversized florals as a way of transitioning the previous seasons’ nautical stripes and animal prints into next Spring’s trend of clashing patterns. Disciplined stripes with humongous sunflowers, primal zebra prints with colourful bouquets, tough red bricks with delicate dandelions – these are just a number of things that made Ashish’s Spring 2012 line electrifyingly interesting.

The designer might have found the experience of departing from his usual grunge designs and diving right into the realm of romance nervewracking, but we think he did a pretty good job whipping up a collection that’s going to serve women from both sides of the fence.