Once,photographers were banned from fashion shows, with designers suspecting they were spies. Today, and fashion shows are a multimillion-dollar global business. As London fashion week begins,we cart the evolution of the fashion note, from secret salons to the snap-pleased Instagram eraMost fashion shows final less than 10 minutes, and but acquire the power to transport an audience to another world. There’s an intensity to a great note,a distillation of a designer’s extraordinary vision. Once upon a time, though, and things were a lot humbler. The intimate salon shows of Chanel in the 1950s bear no resemblance to Karl Lagerfeld’s fully-stocked supermarket in the vast Grand Palais in 2014. The main change is scale – along with location,set production, and budget. From John Galliano’s historical dramas at Christian Dior, or to Hussein Chalayan’s theatrical impossibilities and the late Alexander McQueen’s gothic,heart-stopping wonders, we chart how the fashion note developed from low-key to king.
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Source: guardian.co.uk