AS big tickets go, there were plenty up for grabs today: Christopher Kane, Erdem, JW Anderson and Burberry , but it's the latter that pulls in all the really big front row names (Dita Von Teese, Andy Murray, Victoria Pendleton and Harry Styles), and makes the biggest fashion fanfare, taking over the Queen's Gate arm of Kensington Gardens.
Today the luxury label was going that extra mile and live-streaming the show in its Regent Street store as well as globally on BURBERRY.COM and here on VOGUE.CO.UK which was why we all had to arrive very promptly on time.
If you didn't, you missed out on that Quality Street moment - as trenches and capes in foil shades of fuchsia, raspberry, maroon and gold, green and cerulean all made their way down the catwalk. They looked like they had been spun from fine gold strands, ending up in jewel shades somewhere and somehow on the way, wrapping themselves tightly around the body. But while there were obviously trenches - the label's staple - there was a distinct shift into cape shapes for summer.
They were sweet and small and perched on shoulders in short lengths or, in the case of the opener, fell all the way to the floor. There were little transparent rain versions to show that Christopher Bailey knows a British summer too well and there were those that worked their way into shirt backs.
