London Uprising: A Look at the British Capital’s Fashion Crowd

HERE AND NOW: Young and not so young, household names and niche players, rich, struggling, on the cusp, in their prime, or still going strong after decades in the game, London’s fashion crowd is nothing if not a complex mosaic of personalities. Tania Fares and Sarah Mower have aimed to snap a picture of the fashion crowd in a coffee table book that’s published this week, “London Uprising: Fifty Fashion Designers, One City” (Phaidon). The book is a paean to 50 London-based talents ranging from Margaret Howell, Paul Smith and Vivienne Westwood to other establishment names such as Tom Ford and Stella McCartney, to emerging designers Molly Goddard, Sophia Webster and Thomas Tait. It also includes a recent history of London fashion, and the moment a decade ago when it started flourishing once again thanks to a new generation of designers such as Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou and Roksanda Ilincic, who studied under the late Prof. Louise Wilson at Central Saint Martins. Inside the pages of “London Uprising: Fifty Fashion Designers, One City”  Courtesy Mower penned many of the profiles, while other writers include Alexandra Shulman, Tamsin Blanchard, Susannah Frankel, Lisa Armstrong, Rebecca Lowthorpe and Melanie Rickey. Portraits were shot by photographers including Tara Darby, Mary

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