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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 18 sepTember 2018

Bright colors, neons light up runways at London Fashion Week

By SYLVIA HUI glimpsed through openings
Associated Press in a wooden panel.
LONDON (AP) — Win- When the models finally
ter coats with sandals? emerged, they wore an
Furry bags with long satin array of lacy camisole
gowns? Anything goes slip dresses, capes acces-
as the fashion pack de- sorized with headscarves
scends on London to take and dresses with postcard
in the latest runway shows, prints. There was something
where bright colors, clash- for everyone, from a sexy
ing neons, a '70s vibe and sequined party dress to an
sports-chic vied for atten- egg-blue PVC raincoat to
tion. Veteran designer Jas- dorky-cool cream dunga-
per Conran, model-turned- rees and boiler suits.
designer Alexa Chung and Some of the silhouettes
House of Holland were had a distinctly '70s vibe.
among those showcasing A cream, double-breasted
their spring and summer suit featured high-waisted,
designs at Day 2 of London slightly bootcut trousers.
Fashion Week on Saturday. Brown suede coats and
A look at some highlights: separates also recalled
JASPER CONRAN Models wear creations by designer Alexa Chung during their Spring/Summer 2019 runway show styles from that era.
Conran, one of the found- at London Fashion Week in London, Friday, Sept. 15, 2018. ___
ing designers of London Associated Press HOUSE OF HOLLAND
Fashion Week, chose the Slogan T-shirts, loud clash-
Royal Academy of Arts as Some models wore the boy I remember seeing Long a fashion week regu- ing prints, exaggerated
his show venue and fittingly same bold shade from my mother working hard lar, model and TV presenter shapes: Designer Henry Hol-
offered up a collection of head to toe. One sported a lobbying to gain rights for Alexa Chung made her land isn't known to shy away
bold, saturated colors — bright pink jumpsuit, paired women . it is clear that the debut as a designer at Lon- from over-the-top designs,
and a surprising dose of with forest green hair. Clas- battles fought for equality don Fashion Week. and this season is no differ-
women's rights activism. sic, elegant shapes en- are still far from over." Known for her quirky fashion ent. There's neon — lots of
There were monochrome sured the overall look was Actress Kristin Scott Thom- sense, with her penchant it — as well as large logos,
striped dresses, graphic tasteful, not garish. as, who watched from the for boyish styling, schoolgirl body-hugging lurex, sports-
prints, beautifully tailored Sharing the catwalk was front row, said she loved collars and penny loafers, wear, snakeskin, plus slinky
bias-cut dresses and sporty a T-shirt dress with large, the simplicity and sophisti- Chung offered a look-book crystal-encrusted dresses.
outfits, all in clashing hues abstracted letters reading cated tailoring. for fans keen to replicate Titled "Pull in Emergency,"
taken straight from the art- "Equality not Minority." In his "The colors always amaze her style. the show is themed around
ist's paint box: pea green, show notes, Conran cited me. And that pink jumpsuit Playing on a theme of "ar- hectic city life, and Hol-
tangerine, butter yellow sobering statistics about has my name on it!" she rivals and departures," land said the neon pops
and fire engine red. Some women's pay and refer- said. guests were first treated to of color are meant to con-
outfits even featured paint enced the #MeToo move- ___ a theatrical show of mod- vey a sense of "panic and
splatters. ment, writing: "As a young ALEXA CHUNG els coming and going, half- urgency."q

Gary Shteyngart's road novel in the time of Trump

By ANN LEVIN of repentance and self-dis- to pen a "thoughtful, mid- on the bus.
Associated Press covery. dle-aged" update to "On "Lake Success" is a big-
"Lake Success: a Novel" When the novel opens, the Road"? hearted book about many
(Random House), by Gary a battered and drunken Awash in nostalgia, Barry things. It's a brilliant satire
Shteyngart hedge fund manager buys a bus ticket to Rich- of hedge fund managers,
It's possible there's a hedge named Barry Cohen is in mond, Virginia, to visit the their trophy wives and gau-
fund bro out there whose the Port Authority bus ter- parents of his college girl- dy apartments; a heart-
heart is as big as his AUM minal, fleeing his crumbling friend, Layla, whom he rending but ultimately
(assets under manage- marriage, autistic child and now regrets not marrying. hopeful account of raising
ment). Who thinks Donald a looming SEC investiga- He throws away his cell- a child on the spectrum;
Trump is scary, diversity is tion. Just hours before, at a phone. Soon he'll get rid of and a raucous celebration
great and the solution to his dinner party with a couple his credit cards, all to prove of racial, ethnic and gen-
mid-life crisis could be to, who lives in his fancy Man- he could still be "out in the der identity in America to-
as the slogan once put it: hattan apartment build- world solving his own prob- day.
"Go Greyhound and leave ing, Barry's wife, Seema, lems." It also explores the ways
the driving to us." accused him of having no In the course of his travels, large and small that Trump
It's possible but not likely, imagination, which wound- he'll mentor a crack deal- has changed the coun- This cover image released by
and part of the goofy, ram- ed him to the core. er in Baltimore, reconnect try, rupturing relationships Random House shows "Lake
bunctious charm of Gary Hadn't he secretly aspired with Layla in El Paso, Texas, and forcing people to take Success," by Gary Shteyngart.
Shteyngart's latest novel, to be a writer at Princeton? and pay grudging last re- sides. Associated Press
"Lake Success," is that he Named his hedge fund spects to his difficult father In his acknowledgments,
makes you believe in such This Side of Capital after F. at his grave in San Diego. Shteyngart thanks Grey- strange, almost melan-
a character and even to Scott Fitzgerald's first novel? He'll also have sex with a hound "for spiriting me from choly competence." It's
root for him on his quixotic Even thought of using ma- man and hide his Jewish one coast of our troubled a ride you won't want to
cross-country bus journey terial from this very bus trip identity from white bigots land to the other with a miss.q