Now let’s talk Sophia Webster’s cheerfully colorful birds-of-paradise tailored heels, Mary Katrantzou’s bright Greek geometric prints, Burberry’s luxuriously flamboyant military clothes and Erdem’s hauntingly beautiful nautical themed collection (phew that was a mouthful!). Did I say talk? I mean see. I mean, pictures say a thousand words, no? With concepts derived from movies like Dreamgirls and The Birds, one’s roots, or from Queen Elizabeth to Charles of England whose first of their names, one can truly see how these creative minds gave them new life in today’s day and age.

Revisiting childhood days can bring up plenty of things. For Kane, anywhere from World War II’s war victims evacuating their homes as they abandoned everything, to an era of make-do-and-mend, fur coats and silvery leopard brocades were paired with crystals and semiprecious stones picked out as dangly jewelry. As for Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, the Spanish Baroque influence they picked up from their recent vacations to Peru and Colombia can be seen in the dresses and draped taffeta!