The London College of Fashion staged its MA collections fashion show at the Victoria & Albert’s Raphael Rooms, in London recently. The audience was just as outrageous as the clothes while Sven Hoppe, claimed the award for the Student Collection of the Year, whose futuristic-dandy, menswear designs were one of the highlights of the show.

Hoppe’s features blended traditional tailoring and classic wools and suiting, with flashes of metallic, neoprene. Jackets, capes and coats.

The important feature of the show was men’s wear of modern tailoring, sportswear including variations on the oversized, white poet’s shirt, worn with skinny trousers or “long-johns”, by Steve Corcoran, Wouter Baartmans, Jurgen Bertsch, Keido Kida and Domingo Rodriguez.

Trendsetters as well as those who were after the trends were at the place watching names in fashion and the ones, in years to come.

Thomas Miller’s kilt, either knee-length or to the floor, worn with a billowing, white Byronic-shirt, or a tailcoat and Merve Tuna the young Turkish designer, with her take-no-prisoners collection, assembled from “roadkill”, with the aid of a taxidermist, appalled and astonished the crowd.

The artist, Grayson Perry, was seen in the front row, resplendent in his “artist’s robe”, while Jodie Harsh and Mika joined him. Perry’s robe was of an elaborate, appliquéd coat-of-many-colours, made by his dressmaker, Sonja Harms. He wore it over a cocktail frock designed by a Central Saint Martins graduate, and a pair of very on-trend, red, lace-up clogs, by Natasha Marro.

The singer, Mika was in a bouffant beehive and dazzling drag and sat next to Jodie Harsh, who wore a charcoal-and-white check jacket, emblazoned with black PVC, by Jun Takahashi whose Undercover label is a Japanese cult brand.