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                                  Avsh Alom Gur leaves Ossie Clark!

Its been a tough couple of seasons for the relaunched brand. 

Many Fashionistas felt that it should've been left where it was, in the archives of fashionable history and unfortunately, the brand that made Avsh Alom Gur a household name and helped him finally bring in the crowds for his own label, has now lost Gur as Creative Director. G-d only knows who will take over the job!

This is probably for the best, after all, I think whatever he did, people were always going to bitch about it, as the 're-invented' brands are forever bogged down by nostalgia.

I for one will remain a devoted Gur fan.

His S/S 09 line absolutely floats my fashion boat!

Roving Reporter : Avsh Alom Gur

I love him! 

Gur was the very first, 'real' fashion week show I ever saw and ever since then I was hooked. I have to admit though this season I was a bit bereft by the collection. This is the first Gur season where I didn't desperately want to buy the whole lot. 

But if you as me if I enjoyed it? . . . well Hell Yeh!

This collection was definitely meant to be tongue and cheek, an ironic poke at the 'economic crisis' and it's about time someone stopped skirting around the issue and just said, guess what?! We are all broke!

Confused?! Well, the most talked about pieces at Gur were those embellished in beautiful beaded 'credit crunch' phrases. I love the irony of blinging up the word, after all if you had no money, you would definitely not be so sparkly!

Every dress, even those beautifully made in chiffon and printed silks incorporated cartoon, Pop Art style slogans. 

Other influences for the more wearable pieces was 'Russian folk tradition'. Huge skirts embellished in crochet flowers. Autumnal tone, abstract nature prints also decorated skirts, blouses and silk wrap trenches.

Fav piece: Purple, knitted tube dress and black bodice/printed lilac skirted dress - I want these please!

Final thought : EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS SHOW!

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Fashion week invites sometimes look a little crazy. Sometimes designers try to out-weird one another by coming up with the most abstract-looking piece of paper they can think of to ask buyers and editors and stylists to come look at some clothes. I actually had to use Google to help me figure out one of them this year, because the writing was so jacked-up I couldn't read the designer's name.

Sometimes, though, they look great. Like these. From left to right, we have Avsh Alom Gur (who also designs for Ossie Clark), Mulberry and Modernist.

Avsh Alom Gur gets points because, well, anything that comes in an envelope within an envelope is as fun as those Russian dolls everyone likes when they're kids.

For Mulberry: Hello, it's a glossy beetle on top of matte baby beetles. And plus, the beetle swivels. I actually cried once when I had to kill a spider (didn't like the way it was looking at me), and even I know when something is both buggy and well designed.

And last, and most impressively, we have Modernist. Sorry, didn't hear you? You can't read the fine print? That's right, it's a packet of seeds for a special Modernist bird of paradise. A freaking bird of paradise. Hell. Yes.