The second was in Selfridges' Car Park for the Fashion Fringe shows. Fashion Fringe is a new concept, launched to offer the best of UK's young fashion designers a chance to showcase their talent and imagination.
The main tent at the Duke of York's Barracks seated approximately 500 people and saw 24 of the finest and most prominent collections of next season revealed, including Jasper Conran. Simon Tutchener was the lighting designer, in his eighth year and 16th season of lighting LFW events. Production manager was Tom Brunsdon for S2 Events, who has been involved in LFW for the last 23 years, and Bandit's Lester Cobrin project managed the lighting elements for his 13th season running.
The lighting get-in started with the supply of a large A-type trussing grid - of which a large generic lighting rig was hung. The grid was suspended on 10 points and measured 120 ft long by 32 ft wide and was injected with two 120' LiteBeam trusses from which the majority of the lanterns were suspended directly above the catwalk.
The fixture list was dominated by approx. 160 x Source Fours Profiles & Pars. These were joined with a scattering of 2K and 5K fresnels, single cell floods and PAR 64's plus all the various additional specials which ranged from 5ft mirror balls and Martin Mac 2Ks to Lycian follow spots.
Dimming was provided by two 72-way Avo racks and the shows were run off WholeHog II console, programmed and operated by Tellson James. For Fashion Fringe at Selfridges the lighting designed by Thierry Dreyfus and production by Inca Productions, Bandit supplied 202 Source Four PARs with barn doors for this show - a mixture of 10, 26, and 36 degrees, plus seven Molefays with colour changers. All fixtures were floor mounted because of the lack of ceiling height and rigging points in the Selfridges car park.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
