Let me set the scene: Christopher Bailey, chief creative officer + president of Burberry for 17 years, is launching the most iconic show of London Fashion Week. The lights play for a couple minutes and then Adwoa Aboah (both model and activist) opens the show with a white dress painted with rainbow stripes down the front left side, paired with a large jacket and large drop earrings. The show continues to drop jaws with pairings of both retro Burberry pieces from Bailey's beginning and rainbow color patterns all over the runway. From incorporating the rainbow flag into Burberry's signature print, to adoring it on everything possible: hats, vests, dresses, jackets, sweaters, you name it... what an iconic show. Now picture this: the last walk is none other than Cara Delevingne, known to be sexually fluid and openly supportive of the lgbtq+ community. If that wasn't enough to make me love the whole show, I don't know what would. The whole show was breathtaking (it is very slow starting... but if you watch it all it is so worth it!), and I love how it all came back to center at the end when Bailey walked out. As a gay man, it was his final stand to shed a light on the LGBTQ+ pride. In a snippet taken from Vogue: "That is surely why Bailey chose to wave farewell to Burberry in the way he did: with a collection full of the symbolism of gay pride and with a large donation to youth charities that support LGBTQ+ rights and mental health" he paraded (literally) out a collection of rainbow adorned pieces and what a freaking amazing show it was.
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