LFW DAY 5: BURBERRY RUNWAY

Photos by Getty Images/Getty Images for Burberry

It was back to the trenches for the final and biggest show of LFW--Burberry's monumental return from Milan to show at its new global headquarters at Horseferry House in Westminster, boasting the week's longest catwalk and front row. However, it was not long enough to accommodate the likes of yours truly. But thanks to the roving lens of Getty Image's Image Net, there are pics aplenty to go around from the runways to the front row to the late night reveling thereafter.

From what I can tell from the pictures, Burberry injected a dash of the cutesy, fem and flirty into their homecoming collection--coming in for a soft landing on their native soil. They mixed up and softened up their traditional trench by rendering it in candy pink mini-dress versions with puff shoulders and tossing in a few mint green and otherwise pastel separates. The message was clear; with belted, bunched and way-above-the-knee being the buzzwords of the day, Burberry's Baily is no longer after Slone-Ranger or provincial aristocrat at large, but the young, trendy and papable. This candy-floss trench clad girl, complete with socks and ankle boots, can't be more than 25 and she is ready to take Mayfair by sweet storm.

Still, for all the adorable trench dresses and softening of the brand's British heritage bottom line, in the culmination of LFW's 25th bday (as in, the Burberry show was the icing on the birthday cake) Creative Director Christopher Bailey still couldn't resist the urge to flaunt a bit of that brash Italian-luxe-informed attitude in Britain's face with the uncharacteristic appearance of knitted rabbit pastel jackets and shawls. Why is a house famous for its oh-so-heritage-feeling-of-the-moment macs churning out bundles of bunny in one of the world's most stringent anti-fur capitals? And for spring, no less? Maybe they heard Anna was coming, but, alas, she left Andre at home.

Should they choose to stick around for another season, particularly with it being autumn/winter, they should perhaps be a tad more discreet as they aren't likely find as warm a welcome (I mean from the masses, not the fash pack) the second time around.