1. Alexander McQueen's debut collection in 1992 won headlines with his almost-rude, ultra-low-cut bumster trousers. Here, for his spring/summer 1996 show, McQueen's trademark clever tailoring was put to cheeky use.
2. In 1995, Kate Moss made a special appearance on the catwalk for Stella McCartney's Central Saint Martins graduate show causing a media storm and generating a lot of interest for the young designer.
3.Christopher Kane’s first collection was shown at the Central Saint Martins show for autumn/winter 2006-7 and a fashion star was born. Every fashion editor wanted everything.
4. Vivienne Westwood sent the opening model strutting down the runway in Guantanamo-orange underpants emblazoned with the slogan "Fair Trial My Arse" in 2008.
"We need a whole change in ethic, otherwise we really are heading for disaster," commented the iconic designer.
5. In 2001, the Prince of Wales was guest of honour at the British Fashion Awards, held at Battersea Park Arena. That year, Alexander McQueen won the Designer of the Year prize. The moment held special irony since, during his days on Savile Row, McQueen had famously scrawled "I'm a c**t" inside a jacket that was being made for Prince Charles.
6. Kate Moss won the Model of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards in 2001 (pictured) and again in 2006.
7. Alexander McQueen showed his spring/summer 1994 collection entitled "Nihilism" at the Bluebird garage in Chelsea in September 1993, when the British Fashion Council sponsored a new talent section for the first time.
8. The first London Fashion Week in the format that we know it happened in March 1984: John Galliano, Ghost, Betty Jackson, Wendy Dagworthy, Zandra Rhodes and Jean Muir Bodymap were featured on the schedule. Here, a young John Galliano is pictured receiving the British Designer of the Year award three years later, in 1987, from Trade and Industry secretary Lord Young.
9. Sophie Dahl's first appearance at London Fashion Week came in 1997 – two years after she'd been discovered "crying on a doorstep after a row with her mother" by Isabella Blow. During the autumn/winter 1997-8 collections, Sophie and her famous curves modelled knitwear that left little to the imagination by Lainey Keogh.
10. Hussein Chalayan’s table dress from his autumn/winter 2001-2 show – during which models took off chair covers to dress themselves before using the furniture itself - was the epitome of conceptual fashion.
Sources: Vogue UK, Daily Mail
