Fashion Collection-Burberry Prorsum

"Cheerful, optimistic, nostalgic" is Bailey's own words to a collection which ruled in favor of the digital age ... well, try this scenario on for size: A military wife, whose husband was stationed in the Far East, for example, to fill his idle hours by watching and learning from local artisans. Then he applied his new knowledge to apparel decorating themselves, perhaps with beads running down placket lined trench or collar, or a large wooden beads that form a geometric pattern around the neck, or raffia trim on the hood of my parka. And maybe he'll replace the buttons on a cardigan with a beautiful stone he found on the beach. OK, the scenario may be a luxury flight too far, but full of charming skirt fell to just below the knee showed a polite soldier's wife in ancient times. Crepe pleated dress in green leaves with a line flowing forty outlined on the theme. Sexpot in a basket of knitting sheath stretching also looked back. And Miss Sadie Thompson himself may have stepped out in Pago Pago skirts wrapped and tied in a batik print.

If the print looks good in harmony with the tastes of the season for ethnic exotica, Bailey insisted it was inspired by the shape of the legendary British artist Henry Moore. But, given that Moore was influenced by Picasso, you could say there no end to Africa. And the texture and pattern undoubtedly has the edge tribe. However, they are only means to end the latest Bailey: Burberry jacket lifted into the spotlight that has traditionally been occupied by the trench. It gets the full treatment, from the leather sleeve hems whipstitched to weave all the beads and raffia Burberry workshops can throw at it. And, thrown into bold block print ruched dress, with a bobble hat and raffia platform sandals with leopard wedges, jackets sashay confident of taking on the 2012 must-have. Tim Blanks