View all the photos of the beauty & make-up at the PPQ spring / summer 2013 showing at London fashion week. Read the article to see the full gallery.

View all the detailed photos of the PPQ spring / summer 2013 showing at London fashion week. Read the article to see the full gallery.

View all the catwalk photos of the PPQ spring / summer 2013 showing at London fashion week. Read the article to see the full gallery.

PPQ have a way of finding that steady equilibrium between fantasy and reality. Their autumn / winter 2012 collection at London fashion week (LFW) left some ambiguity as to whether these girls were superheros, fairytale characters, or 1940s silver screen stars. The answer is, to the collection's credit, a mix of all three.

Powder puff pink, palest mint green, faded peach – the first few looks out on the PPQ spring 2012 catwalk made us sit up and wonder where the label’s usual don’t-mess-with-me attitude had gone. Well, it hadn’t disappeared entirely; the super short hems on those dresses still provided sass in spades. Nonetheless, design team Amy Molyneaux and Percy Parker’s favourite colour soon showed up and…

Tom Ford, though oft quoted as being largely anti-fashion week, will show his spring 2012 womenswear collection at London Fashion Week this September. Though not the first time he’s shown during London Fashion Week, this year presents a marked difference: his presentation on the official schedule. Now released to the public, you can see the full schedule after the break.

When PPQ’s London fashion week show opened it was easy to imagine that the designers had taken the term sex kitten somewhat literally. A comic book-esque cat ear hat sat over Pippi Longstocking plaits, a black high necked frock and high heeled feet feathered with ruffles of black lace below them both. There’s a sexy sternness to PPQ’s autumn 2011 offering, the kind of sexy…