This is The Run Through, and I'm Nicole Phelps.

Today on the show, we're talking London Fashion Week.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of London Fashion Week.

So, of course, we had to invite Mark Holgate, my colleague and Vogue's fashion news director,

to give us a dispatch from the shows.

We've also got a conversation

with Amelia Wickssted, who has dressed everyone from Lady Gaga to Carrie Washington to Olivia

Coleman to a very special Vogue editor, which you'll be hearing all about. But first, hi Mark,

welcome to the show. Thank you, Nicole. Nice to see you. It seems like yesterday that you were here

in the studio with me, but you have since flown to London and seen many, many collections at London

Fashion Week. So tell me what you saw. Well, that is exactly right. The joys of transatlantic travel.

I got to London Sunday morning, bright and early,

well, early, I don't know if I was very bright, dashed off the plane, got in the cab, and

before I knew I was in the venue for the J.W. Anderson show at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at old Billingsgate.

And Billingsgate, for those who don't know, and probably most people wouldn't know,

there's an old fish market. Thank God they'd managed to strip any residual sense of cod and

tuna and salmon from the building. But it was a great show. I mean, what I loved about Jonathan's show was just the kind of absolute rigor and

focus on a silhouette and exploring that, you know, short, sculpted, constructed, and then sometimes

kind of a little more, you wouldn't say soft, but a little bit, a little more giving, but also very short,

and anchored with this incredible kind of cutaway biker boot and one bag. I seem to remember it

was one soft, suede kind of satch whole shoulder bag with this detail that looked a bit like

the band that you might see on a penny loafer,

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