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Walk around Soho these days and canada goose coats uk many of the seedier spots have been replaced by trendy restaurants and boutiques. Yet the Soho in designers minds is one rooted in fantasies of its nightlife, when Blitz club kids fell out of Le Kilt or Billy in the early hours. Those were Gareth Pugh reference canada goose outlet location points, as he sent his models out in a glut of sequins, bows and helter skelter stripes with faces dramatically painted and roughed up with latex masks. This was a joyful celebration of Soho sleaze and a blatant criticism of the area rampant gentrification. It was Pugh second show back in London where his ideas as a designer were formed and it clear the city suits him. The three young designers of the Fashion East line up took over various venues on Greek Street, which was turned into Freak Street instead.

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