Depressingly for London, VivienneWestwood'sdiffusion line, Red Label, is as big of a show as it gets for fashion week, bar the odd special appearance. We love Viv, it's just that London would be a more exciting place if she showed her main line here too. This season, Vivienne seems to be sticking to the old "don't mess with success" adage by continuing last season's journey through various looks: from 1960s air hostess through the pie lady inSweeney Toddand disco chic, to a model sharpening a knife on the catwalk, surely with intentional overtones of menace (but in truth just looking concerned for the safety of her spindly hands).The show took place in the Old Bailey, the highest criminal court in the UK. Janet Jackson was there too, and it looked like she enjoyed the show. Maybe she could relate to the Gaia theme, since brother Michael did write the "Earth Song."The great thing about anarchist Westwood is that even if you don't dig the latest collection you can always buy some of her greatest hits from theAnglomanialine. Vivienne was using the red show to shock people into doing something about the environment, as she's expecting 7 billion of us to die before the year 2100.PHOTOS: JAMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE WORDS: SAM VOULTERSSince late last year, everyone's been talking aboutaugmented reality, but it took Carri Mundane, the designer behind Cassette Playa, to grab this technology by the balls and use it to put a show together--the first ever augmented reality fashion show. Since budgets and technology don't allow us to AR this blog, you'll just have to check out the 2D pictures below.YUM. Er, I mean what a kick ass t-shirt design—the word "violence" and an electric blue medieval alien dude all with some sort of electro screen interference. Drawing on your forehead has no right to look this good.Then, after taking a lot of his clothes off, his shirt and that square symbol on it start to glow, and then the music kicks in and loads of stuff starts flying out of his head. Wow, we're all definitely wide-mouthed and blown away.Later he turns into this guy. Guess this all means that this is what is hidden beneath this guy's calm, serene exterior and, by inference, all of us are metal-faced warriors.A glowing slink alien spins out of this woman's forehead. This look owes a bit to Bernhard Willhelm's space Austrian menswear, but Carri's done it for women.This guy has armor-like tattoos all on his face and up the side of his head where most of us have a fade. He too had stuff fly out of his head.PHOTOS: JAIMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE WORDS: DARYOUSH HAJ-NAJAFI
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