Top of the Class in Stylish at London Fashion Week

“It’s rare to find a designer who sticks to her style guns through thick and thin but [New Zealander] Emilia Wickstead isn’t your average fashion creative,” the Daily Mail’s Ruth Styles writes from London Fashion Week, where Wickstead showed her Spring/Summer 2014 collection.

“True to form, this was a collection carefully calibrated to appeal to the ladylike, the kitten of heeled and the violently allergic to London’s wackier names.

“No wonder, then, that Wickstead counts the ever-elegant Samantha Cameron among her faithful fans.

“There was nothing here that could be considered wacky, outré or in bad taste: instead, what we got was a masterclass in stylish summer dressing.

“Like the fabrics, colours were sumptuous with buttercup yellow, delicate blush pink, shimmering cornflower blue and vibrant crimson among the most eye-catching.

“There was the odd touch of print, a charmingly quirky piano motif, but nothing to scare the horses – it was playful Britishness at its best.”

Wickstead was shortlisted for the British Fashion Council (BFC)/Vogue Fashion Fund and Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize in 2013.