40 years of London Fashion Week: Behind the scenes with the women who started it
The first ever edition of London Fashion Week took place in a tent located in a Kensington car park in 1984 - with the newly-formed British Fashion Council hosting a brand new three-day event dedicated to British designers. PR legend Lynne Franks - who founded her own agency at 21 years old - was one of the masterminds behind London Fashion week. “The designers were young, fresh out of art college with huge dreams, they were big talents with very little backing,” Franks tells Euronews culture. New York’s fashion week had been running since 1943, while Milan’s was launched in 1958 and Paris’ in...