Battle of the bands as Oasis kids and Blur hit the Burberry show
GIVEN their rekindled affection and imminent tour, it was hoped the Gallagher brothers would be among the guests at yesterday’s Burberry show – not least because Liam’s son, 25-year-old Lennon, modelled in last year’s presentation.
But it was Britpop royalty of a different kind that took a prime seat at the London Fashion Week event – Blur frontman Damon Albarn, Oasis’s arch nemesis.
Whether the legendary Blur v Oasis feud has been passed down through the generations is unclear, but perhaps to be on the safe side, Albarn and his daughter, Missy, were seated far away from any Gallagher guests.
These included Noel’s daughter, Anais, Liam’s daughter, Molly, and his sons Lennon and Gene.
Lennon’s mother Patsy Kensit was also in attendance, and looked chic in black ankle boots and a belted black Burberry trench coat.
Despite recently falling out of the FTSE 100 index of British companies after shares hit a 15-year low, Burberry adopted a ‘no expense spared’ approach to its VIP guest list.
Celebrities of stage, screen and sport joined luminaries from the music industry to watch the unveiling of a spring/summer 2025 collection that Daniel Lee, the brand’s chief creative officer, will be counting on to reverse its fortunes. The Gallaghers weren’t the only guests to make it a family affair. Also in attendance were Jerry Hall and her daughter Elizabeth Jagger as well as husband and wife duo Rio and Kate Ferdinand.
They were joined by models Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Iris Law, David Gandy and Poppy Delevingne, actors Olivia Colman, Barry Keoghan, Jodie Turner-Smith and even royalty in the form of Lady Amelia Windsor.
Team GB Olympic gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson was also spotted, dressed in an eye-catching orange biker jacket.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour showed her support by swapping her US election Harris-Walz 2024 scarf for a Burberry one.
Should these stars wish to attend next summer’s Oasis reunion too, they should have no shortage of inspiration for what to wear. The collection was a tour de force of outerwear that looked ideal for a soggy English summer.
Longtime Burberry model Lily Donaldson led the charge in a pale blue parka with an embellished hood, while another familiar Burberry face, Edie Campbell, wore a similar cropped version.
Rainwear came in various iterations, including capelets, belted safari jackets, bomber jackets and blousons, in a washed-out pastel palette of pale green, tangerine and lilac, offset with neutral earthy tones. Trench coats – the cash cows of the brand ever since Thomas Burberry created them in 1879 – were reimagined for spring in a delicate daisy print, as well as appearing in more traditional neutral hues.
Fabrics were light, and included cotton, silk poplin and bonded linen.
The collection borrowed heavily from the Nineties, with mesh polo shirts, zippered combat pants and cagoules all making an appearance, worn with the decade’s stalwart, the clog.
As for whether it will prove strong enough to boost the brand’s ailing sales, the verdict is ‘definitely maybe’.
Like the British weather for which this collection was designed, fashion is notoriously fickle.
‘Combat pants and cagoules’