Pringle of Scotland autumn/winter 2010/11 collection

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at London Fashion Week Published: 11:52AM GMT twenty-three February 2010

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Pringle, one of the oldest names in the Scottish borders, has a prolonged story of "sweater" girls who have been members of the chosen "cashmere club": the actresses, Jean Simmons, Margaret Lockwood, Deborah Kerr, Brigitte Bardot, and the prima ballet dancer assoluta, Dame Margot Fonteyn, only for starters.

Now there is a new and startling name to supplement to the list: Courtney Love, the feisty, blonde rockn roller, and widow of Kurt Cobain.

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There she sat, as proper and honeyed as a meadow-flower, in the front row at Pringle, last night, wearing a Pringle, grey cashmere sweater, and a grey/black plaid kilt!

"Im unequivocally required at heart, Im unequivocally a nation girl," she confessed, tossing glossy blonde girls that were 100% free from back-coming or product, "I used to go to Summerhill boarding propagandize in Suffolk and Im shopping a residence in Buckinghamshire."

The collection, written by Clare Waight Keller, essentially reflected a lot of Loves some-more fashionable nature, as well, due to the actuality the show was styled by Panos Yiapanis, who is her own stylist, as well.

The mood was impassioned and extravagant, branch a imperishable thesis in to civic luxury, with touches of musty functionalism.

Long-sleeved, dim sheer blouses, were ragged with "Highlander" kilts, in leather, with sheepskin hip-bands. A tweed coat, was accomplished with sheepskin "armlet" and deer-fur gloves.

A beautiful, sheepskin, drifting jacket, surfaced an additional small frock in Locharron plaid. Intricate, spiders web knits came in black and oatmeal; a black hideaway dress was slung with a tanned hide "apron".

Alternative kilts came in dual layers; duffle-coats were fixed with 3 china buckles, the same item practical to pewter, hooded, cashmere cardigan-coats. Uneven argyle patterns featured on dresses with "gladiator-pleat" short skirts.

Then came the farfetched knits, in loops and oversized ribbing, combining a carapace on small tops, ragged with loose, baggy, velvet shorts and trousers with "bag" pockets fluctuating at the hips. Kilt touches were practical to cashmere dresses, the dress swung to the left, and buckle-fastened.

Deep, moss and sharp-olive were the key colours for evening, seen in the relaxed velvet shorts, with long-sleeved, sheer blouses; in a knitted dress, full-skirted, over a lattice-stitch, petticoat-hem; and a final, olive velvet, drape-backed dress, held on one hip.

The show, staged in The Serpentine Gallery, additionally noted a vital partnership in between Pringle, celebrating the 195th anniversary, and the gallery, with variations on the classical twinset and the important "Argyle" pattern, finished by assorted artists and celebrities, together with the actress, Tilda Swinton; the art executive and photographer, Ryan McGinley; David Shrigley; dual Turner Prize winners, Douglass Gordon and Richard Wright; Stephen Sutcliffe; Alastair Gray; and Luke Fowler.

Tilda Swinton is believed to have taken detached and reassembled a little of her grandmothers Pringles. The work will be exhibited at The Serpentine, and accessible in stores from September.