My phone buzzed, it was one of my backstage contacts, the message said you need to be at Victoria House later for Tran Hung, it’s EPIC. And so it was that I found myself trotting up through Holborn to see the debut London Fashion Week collection of Vietnamese designer Tran Hung.
Readers, I was not disappointed.
It’s one of those collections that makes you think in 10 years' time you’ll be telling the story of how you and a handful of other journalists were at his debut, and those round the table will curse they were elsewhere that night. The collection is steeped in the ideas and traditions of Vietnam, the handwoven fabrics produced by local workers in villages and the inspirations of the colours and the embroidery hint to the nation's past while being placed on the most modern of chic and seductive looks.
The lightness of the garments belies their structure and form, it’s almost impossible to comprehend how Tran has taken such feint textiles and created s much shape and structure from them, if I hadn’t of seen it with my own eyes I would have struggled to believe it's possible.
Tran Hung, isn’t just an emerging designer, he's a name you should take down and start adding to your wardrobe today.