EDELINE LEE Autumn Winter 2025 Film

LONDON FASHION WEEK 22 FEBRUARY 2025 10AM THE DORCHESTER HOTEL For Autumn Winter 2025 EDELINE LEE presents an explosive happening in the calm, elegant surroundings of the Orchid Room at THE DORCHESTER HOTEL - a dynamic collaboration with acclaimed fight director KATE WATERS and film and theatre director JOSIE ROURKE. A genteel breakfast is suddenly thrown into disarray by the eruption into the space of two women, armed with rapiers. As they thrust and parry, rouleau tassels tumble over structural pannier peplums, revealing their limbs in sinuous black dresses cut into monastic, Elizabethan silhouettes. Flurries of action follow - manga fighters move like water in layers of crisp poplin, Samurai-inspired cutaway robes over pyjama palazzos. Two boxers spar on the table, ducking and weaving in elegantly pared down brown outfits - the flexible layers of ruching on a bandeau top bring to mind a boxer's shorts. In a spectacular finale, a quartet of masked combatants armed with katana swords moves in hypnotic formation, silver chainmail jersey draped and knotted over their bodies, the gunmetal sheen of their sequined gowns revealing flashes of leg. Skirts are draped over steel hoops that swing as they fight. Each bout ends with a nod of approval; a handshake - good work ladies, we're ready. Let's go. The designer commented: "I was thinking about all the powerful women in my life, and it struck me how actively we support each other whether that's professionally or in our pers