Cannot wait for the full summer '13 collection to drop but still loving the pre summer offerings from Pray For Paris

With Milan Fashion Week now underway, SHOWstudio friend and fashion writer Camilla Morton will chair the live panel on Prada’s Autumn/Winter 2013 collection. Watch the discussion surrounding this hotly anticipated show on Thursday 21 February at 17:00 GMT.

Taking their seats besides Morton are artist Carlo Brandelli who contributed to the Political Fashion project in 2008, DJ and producer Jeremy Healy and creative consultant Yasmin Sewell. 

Before you tune into the panel, why not check out our on demand footage of the Pattern 'Book Club' where Sewell shared her thoughts on the next generation of fashion design talent. 

Wherever Miuccia Prada leads the fashion pack follows. Discover where Prada will take us this season.  

Day two of Milan Fashion Week sees Caryn Franklin return to lead the Fendi live panel discussion, following her debut chairing the Gucci discussion. Tune in on Thursday 21 February 2013 at 11:30 GMT to see the latest offering from Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi. 

Joining Franklin is PR guru and panel veteran Mandi Lennard and fashion filmmaker Ruth Hogben. Our third and final panelist is Lainey Sheridan-Young, head of sales at London agency Finch & Partners. 

The first Milan live panel discussion took place today, 20 February 2013, with Caryn Franklin chairing the debates on Gucci’s A/W 13 offering. The contested response to the opening event of Milan Fashion Week marks SHOWstudio's aim to constantly present unedited responses to fashion collections with varied perspectives offered by the expert panelists.

The engaging dialogue in all the live panel discussions offers critique on many of the London and New York collections. On demand footage of the last London live panel discussions, looking at Meadham Kirchhoff, Simone Rocha, J.W Anderson and Louise Gray are also worth recapping.

Peruse the on demand footage of the live panel discussions on the collections page for all our previous reportage. 

Greg French reports on the final shows from London’s Autumn/Winter 2013 collections. His thorough reviews cover the Simone Rocha, Roksanda Ilincic and Meadham Kirchhoff shows highlighting the setting, textures and even the smell from these anticipated shows. 

French’s fluid prose reviews Simone Rocha’s collection entitled 'Respect your Elders'. He provides a comprehensive vision, noting contextual details such as the comforting touch of family reiterated throughout. He covers topics from the the direct interpretation of Rocha’s inspirations (her Irish and Chinese grandmothers) to the pre-show aroma of cheese and ham toasties to the active support of Rocha’s family, both backstage and front row. 

Although the palette at Simone Rocha may have been sickly sweet with its ladylike pinks and soft pastels, Roksanda Ilincic’s spooky and sensual collection confirmed this trend with a ‘muted palette’ of mint and pink. French’s review marked Ilincic’s undoubtedly secure position amongst ‘London's fashion elite’ as a vantage point to present a collection that 'returned to her love of dark drama - something that characterised her earliest student work’. Presented ‘with a sense of confidence and ease’, the textures conferred with rich sheens, bold PVC and faux fur scattered throughout.

Another confident collection was presented by Meadham Kirchhoff, which French unpicked in his review. He noted that the duo transcended their clashing aesthetic to offer a monochromatic show entitled 'Helter Skelter'. As the obvious masters of storytelling, Meadham Kirchhoff referenced gothic fairytales that takes the audience on a journey ‘somewhere between Victorian matron and fairground freak’.

Read the full reports on our collections page for the rest of the details on the last lashings of fashion festivities that London had to offer.

Presenter and stylist Angela Scanlon gives her take on the opulence and glamour of Gucci's A/W 13 collection following our live panel discussion. Listen to the soundbite above to hear her thoughts! 

Producer and representative of moving image at Art and Commerce Andrea Geraldin gives her opinion on the Gucci A/W 13 show in a soundbite taken straight after the live panel discussion.

Watch the soundbite now!

Inspired by her work with Reptile Youth, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie selected rising artistic talent - and SHOWstudio discovery - Rei Nadal to direct the video for the band's latest release. Inspired by the pointed lyrics of 2013, the full nine minute video unpicks themes of dissent, anger and unrest using the signature dark yet romantic visuals that Nadal promoted on her Tumblr. As we launch an exclusive 9 minute version of the work, Bobby Gillespie tells us the ideas and inspirations behind the dynamic new video...

'I discovered Rei after my wife Katy England came back from a meeting with Nick Knight who showed her some Tumblr blogs he was grooving on. Rei was the main one Nick was enthusing about. There was a film she made for a band called Reptile Youth that I thought was great in terms of the images she had chosen and the way they were edited. Seeing this film gave me the idea that we maybe shared a similar aesthetic. I got in touch with Rei and we met up and  had a good talk and I played her some music and we started sending each other our favourite Tumblrs/blogs and we took it from there.' Read the full interview here.

Watch Rei Nadal's video for 2013 now!

SHOWstudio continues to champion fashion illustration as an important medium of fashion communication. As such, our Milan coverage sees Fiona Gourlay handed the task of illustrating the latest collections from Italy.

Trained at The London College of Fashion, Gourlay draws upon personal experiences to provide depth and substance to her drawings as opposed to what she describes as 'cookie cutter' artworks. Gourlay's drawings have a confident texturisation to them, through the use of unconventional materials such as branches, dead flowers and gold leaf. All help demonstrate the innovative fabric choices of the designers.

Keep an eye on our collections page for all the shows that Gourlay will be covering. Also our Tumblr page will pull in all the illustrations for your viewing pleasure!

With New York and London collections behind us, we now look forward to the polished glamour of Milan. A decidedly different aesthetic prevails with Gucci, Alberta Ferretti and Francesco Scognamiglio beginning the Milan season today.

Our live coverage of Milan kicks off with the Gucci live panel, chaired by fashion journalist, Caryn Franklin. Some live panel discussions scheduled for the next few days include Fendi, Prada, Versace and Bottega Veneta. 

Our new illustrator Fiona Gourlay also takes up residence at SHOWstudio to interpret the best of Milan’s offerings which will include Dolce and Gabbana, Moschino and Trussardi. 

To coincide with the anticipation of each show, our collections pages convey the backstage and front row activity via Instagrams and tweets from those attending. It's all rounded off with catwalk photos from our partners NOWFASHION, and Lou Stoppard's instructive show reports. 

Make sure to tune in at 13:00 GMT for the Gucci live panel. Visit the collections page for our comprehensive collections coverage.

Today saw the last day of the London collections, ending in a real furore of activity with Simone Rocha, Roksanda Ilincic and Meadham Kirchhoff. These amazing shows followed a frantic day of fashion moments with Christopher Kane, Louise Gray, Burberry Prorsum, Giles and J.W. Anderson to highlight just a few. 

If you didn’t get to see the shows, make sure to visit SHOWstudio for a comprehensive perspective on all the London collections. With varied and conflicting views presented, our coverage aims to encourage a critical dialogue and engagement with fashion. Explore SHOWstudio’s collections coverage with tweets, Instagrams, illustrations, catwalk images, show reports and live panel discussions each offering diverse and unedited perspectives on the collections. 

Navigate your way through SHOWstudio’s collections pages to recap on the New York and London Autumn/Winter 2013 season so far. With two cities down and two to go, the intense and constant fashion stimulation absorbed during collections no doubt require some digestions. Uncover exclusive industry points of view and then decide for yourself! 

Kiki Georgiou’s lastest show reports from London Fashion Week are in!

From the crazy cheers to the Hitchcock’s Psycho, Georgiou’s reviews on Louise Gray, Fashion East, Christopher Kane, Erdem, Peter Pilotto and Burberry Prorsum are well worth the read. 

The energy and excitement of the London collections comes through in Georgiou’s quirky conversational style. Her report on the much anticipated Louise Gray collection, titled ‘Hey Crazy’, notes that, 'the only crazy thing about it was how seriously good it was'. When reflecting honestly she acknowledging that in fact there were some crazy bits such as the nylon carrier bag hats by Stephen Jones, the loo roll accessorised coat, silver cupcake case earrings and roasting tray bum bags.

The crazy fun seemed to continue at Fashion East with a report that highlighted the contrast between show endings where some conclude 'in a rather anticlimactic way [with] the odd sad clap breaking the silence. Not at a Fashion East show though! People cheer and wolf-whistle and stand up and clap their little hearts away and I swear, I saw someone punch the air today'.

Obviously a resounding success, perhaps not so much at Erdem where Georgiou states that Erdem Moralioglu's 'dark mood this season' was presented with 'familiar, and rather worrying, notes from Hitchcock’s Psycho' adding to the collections intrigue but concluding with a clear instruction. 'Don’t be afraid of the dark, Erdem!'.

Read the full reports on our collections for all the details on Louise Gray, Fashion East and Erdem and get the full coverage on Christopher Kane, Peter Pilotto and Burberry Prorsum as well. 

Kicking off the Milan collections is our first live panel discussion looking at Italian luxury goods giant, Gucci. Tune in on Wednesday 20th February 2013 at 13:00 GMT for a critique on Frida Giannini’s anticipated show.  

Having expertly contributed to the Louise Gray and Meadham Kirchhoff live panel discussions, Caryn Franklin is back as our guest chair. Franklin’s industry experiences started at Dazed & Confused but have since included authoring How To Look Good and Woman in the Mirror. She has also produced documentaries on fashion designers such as Agnès b, Philip Treacy, Vivienne Westwood and Matthew Williamson. In 2009 Franklin co-founded All Walks Beyond The Catwalk with Debra Bourne and model Erin O’Connor, an initiative that aims to change the way fashion is taught in colleges.

Joining Franklin in the live panel discussions is Irish presenter and stylist Angela Scanlon, LibertyLondonGirl.com founder Sasha Wilkins and moving image producer and Art+Commerce representative Andrea Geraldin.

Make sure to find out what the panelists think of Gucci’s A/W 13 collection and whether it follows on from last season as the clearly marked ‘new aesthetic dynasty’.

Stylist and fashion consultant Kim Howells shares her honest opinion on the Meadham Kirchhoff collection taken directly after participating in the live panel discussion. Watch the soundbite to hear what Howells had to say!

Fashion writer and author of How to Walk in Heels Camilla Morton gives her thoughts on the Meadham Kirchhoff's A/W 13 collection which was filmed in this short soundbite, straight after the live panel discussion. 

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The final London live panel is in action. Catch Lou Stoppard, Camilla Morton, Caryn Franklin, Hywel Davies and Kim Howells as they dissect the Meadham Kirchhoff Autumn/Winter 2013 collection. 

Tune in now!