PPQ Party

If I wasn’t coughing blood and sipping lemon and hot water yesterday whilst muddling through a backlog of emails back at work, I would have put on a party frock, donned my invite rosettes and rocked up to the PPQ show and then the after party later on.  This isn’t because I have a huge amount of love for PPQ but because as soon as I opened my trap about fashion slowing/calming down and getting a bit serious yesterday, PPQ came and slapped me in the face and said ‘Hey, girls still like to wear their 80’s prom dresses with pride.’  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, is what I think about PPQ’s latest collection which was in fact a parade of prom princesses and also had an accompanying front row consisting of London’s natural prom dress-addicts (Peaches, Pixie Geldof, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Lily Allen).  This isn’t me showing masses of affection for the collection but in a weird sort of way, I can’t really fault the collection, the show and the after party as a whole, purely because it is so representative of young London, famous or not who are out gigging, drinking and riding night buses loudly.  It’s not romanticising anything and in fact, outfits seen at PPQ’s show will probably resonate on the streets more so than other collections simply because the tried and tested cute, short, flirty prom dress combo hasn’t really died out since vintage shops went into overdrive providing them in the 90’s.  So knock the celeb appearances at the show if you will but PPQ shouldn’t be knocked for reflecting a reality.