{"id":27829,"date":"2016-02-15T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T11:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/?p=27829"},"modified":"2016-02-15T13:11:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:11:22","slug":"from-the-catwalk-to-the-car-park-showroom-by-david-collins-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/from-the-catwalk-to-the-car-park-showroom-by-david-collins-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE CATWALK TO THE CAR PARK SHOWROOM BY DAVID COLLINS STUDIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>London Fashion Week started last Friday, 18th september, with all the coolest proposals of the biggest designers for the next\u00a0SS16.\u00a0Earlier this year when it was announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonfashionweek.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">London Fashion Week <\/a>was moving from its much-loved home in Somerset House (its base for the last five\u00a0years) to the second floor of a <em>car park<\/em> in Soho,<a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/where-to-stay-during-london-design-festival-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"> London<\/a>, there were more than a few raised eyebrows.\u00a0Regarding this new spot, the British Fashion Council has tapped <em><strong><a href=\"www.davidcollins.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">David Collins Studio<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the design firm that created interiors ranging from The Wolseley to Harrods Shoe Heaven to Jimmy Choo\u2019s Bond Street flagship, for its new\u00a0London\u00a0Fashion Week show space in <em>Soho<\/em>. A trendy showroom created in an unexpected place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED HISTORY: <a href=\"http:\/\/bocadolobo.com\/blog\/fashion\/best-events-at-london-fashion-week-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">BEST EVENTS AT LONDON FASHION WEEK 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27837 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg\" alt=\"FROM THE CATWALK TO THE GLAMOROUS CAR PARK SHOWROOM BY DAVID COLLINS studio\" width=\"705\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\">Although less conventionally beautiful than its former Neoclassical locale, the Brewer Street car park does offer a much needed upgrade in terms of space and flexibility that reflects the current growth within the UK fashion market.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27835\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg\" alt=\"FROM THE CATWALK TO THE GLAMOROUS CAR PARK SHOWROOM BY DAVID COLLINS\" width=\"705\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/p>\n<p>David Collins, founder of David Collins Studio:\u00a0born and raised in dublin, david collins\u2019s childhood ambitions might have denied the world some of the most treasured interiors of the 20th and 21st centuries. Fortuitously, his family put pay to fashion designer and musician aspirations while an aversion to latin prevented a career in law. Instead, David followed in his father\u2019s footsteps with a degree at Bolton Street School of Architecture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27833\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg\" alt=\"FROM THE CATWALK TO THE GLAMOROUS CAR PARK SHOWROOM BY DAVID COLLINS\" width=\"705\" height=\"1058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-428x643.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10988\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/banner-blog-brabbu.gif\" alt=\"BRABBU All Products\" width=\"800\" height=\"158\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27832 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg\" alt=\"David Collins Studio\" width=\"705\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27836\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg\" alt=\"FROM THE CATWALK TO THE GLAMOROUS CAR PARK SHOWROOM BY DAVID COLLINS\" width=\"705\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27834 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg\" alt=\"David Collins Studio\" width=\"705\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3-london-fashion-week-david-collins-car-park-fashion-trendy-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/luxxu.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23219\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxxo-banner-BB.jpg\" alt=\"Luxxo banner BB\" width=\"705\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxxo-banner-BB.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxxo-banner-BB-300x39.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/a>If you are in London just go to\u00a0Brewer Street Car Park till tomorrow, 22 September 2015, and visit this cool <em>showroom<\/em>. The floor has been divided into product categories to help navigation and ease. Sub-sections include RTW, Emerging RTW, Shoes, Bags, Accessories and Multi-Label Showrooms.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/7-interesting-exhibitors-in-the-interiors-section-at-100-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">7 INTERESTING EXHIBITORS IN THE INTERIORS SECTION AT 100% DESIGN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/london-design-festival-to-showcase-color-trends-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL TO SHOWCASE COLOR TRENDS 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><strong>Brabbu<\/strong> <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/inspiration-and-ideas\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Inspirations and Ideas<\/a><\/strong>\u2018 page and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">News<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Fashion Week started last Friday, 18th september, with all the coolest proposals of the biggest designers for the next\u00a0SS16.\u00a0Earlier this year when it was announced that London Fashion Week was moving from its much-loved home in Somerset House (its base for the last five\u00a0years) to the second floor of a car park in Soho, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":31467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1695,7],"tags":[148,7125,7126,40,117,2041,227,2826],"class_list":["post-27829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design_agenda","category-lifestyle","tag-brabbu","tag-car-park","tag-david-collins-studio","tag-lifestyle-2","tag-london","tag-london-fashion-week","tag-showroom","tag-soho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}