At Victoria Beckham, for the first time I found myself bewitched not just by the shapeliness but by the rich colours of the dresses: a yolky, 60s yellow in cotton waffle and a glorious deep purple silk gazar. (“I love colour for summer,” said Mrs B, which I must say surprised me, as I feel like I only ever see her wearing black.) Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Downtown at DKNY, I fell in love with an emerald silk blouse tucked into Delft blue shorts. Photograph: PR
We saw the first collection by Diane’s new creative director, Yvan Mispelaere. Being Diane’s creative director is a bit like being a water-diviner: you have to be able to sense where the DVF feeling is in fashion right now; seek out the right form by which you can help your customers express their inner Diane-ness this season. (DVF is, after all, all about the Diane-ness in us all. How could it not be? She’s fabulous.) A lime-green georgette halter neck silk top, worn with jade bermudas, came down the catwalk and I realised that (although, personally, there is no way I can pull off that colour combination, more’s the pity) I do not want white to be the colour of next season. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for IMG
I want colour. I want clothes that conjure up those first days in March when the sunshine turns lemony. Lucky me, looks like I got it. Photograph: JP Yim/WireImage
The colours at Marc Jacobs – peaches, pinks, purples and pumpkins – were 70s YSL, but with the volume turned up so that they were lurid rather than nostalgic. They were the colours of the kind of holiday cocktails that come with a pink umbrella and two straws. Perhaps the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective exhibition that was staged this year in Paris, where Jacobs is based part of the year, fed into these clothes. (Jacobs always breezily admits, with the casual confidence of someone to whom ideas flow free and easy, that he takes fashion influences from the past when it suits him.) But there was also more than a touch of Biba; and – in the kohl eyes, the frizzy hair, and the big hats with the pushed-back brims – a hint of Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. Photograph: Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images
