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Catwalk Report: Jasper Conran

By Carla Bevan. Photograph by Mitchell Sams on Tuesday 18 September 2007

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Jasper Conran SS08

AT MIDDAY ON Monday - halfway through London Fashion Week - Jasper Conran strove for fashion gold, bathing his catwalk in a gilded light and sending the models down a metallic runway. The cosseting glow was the perfect backdrop to a sensual collection crafted from bronze silks and burnished satins.

The precious metals theme ran through the entire show, from the colour palette and fabrics to the accessories, with fine gold hoop earrings adorning the models' ears and some amazing flattened gold orbs acting as the most dramatic of belt fastenings.

Backstage before the show, Conran told us the collection had a very 'sporty' feel - but you wouldn't have risked too much activity in any of these clothes. Rather they were cut to show off a woman's body at its very best: a flash of leg here, a toned, sunkissed arm there. Certainly model Olivia Inge's gold bodice, an

Amazonian piece of jewellery which had been sculpted to her curves, was fit for posing purposes only.

Other names on the runway included Erin O'Connor, Jade Parfitt and Lily Cole - a trio which provided a welcome, grown-up air to proceedings. Grown-up clothes after all, require grown-up women to model them.