During London Fashion Week last month Top Shop screened its own fashion shows live in its flagship store in London's Oxford Street.
"The fashion industry's promotion of beauty as meaning stick thin is damaging to young grils' self-image and to their health, " said British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell at the weekend, urging London Fashion Week to follow Madrid's example.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The term "behind the scenes" will take on a whole new meaning when it comes to describing London Fashion Week in future, as fabrics get more high-tech and science becomes a key part of the business.
This time the venerable British brand is staying one step ahead of its already digitally-advanced self by working a partnership with Twitter to tweet backstage photos of each and every look in the collection before livestreaming its London Fashion Week runway show.
To pay for it all, including the one employee who works for him, Torres teaches one or two days a week at a London fashion school, and in the meantime has become more than a dilettante in chemistry.
When a runway show ends at Fashion Week either last week in New York or this week in London buyers and members of the industry elite hurry on to the next show, all the glitz over quickly after a show that lasts just minutes.
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Artists who contributed works to the riverside event -- which formed part of the week-long London Boat Show -- include the fashion duo Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto, portrait artist Christian Furr, as well as musician and actor, Goldie.
Yet this week, with fashion weeks under way in Madrid and London, models are finding their lifestyles under examination for different reasons.
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