Designers on the high street

Every fashionista’s dreams are coming true this season, with the new celebrity collections now available at local high-street stores.
This winter there seems to be a growing trend of designer clothing ranges on the high-street, with H&M paving the way for other stores by recruiting A-list designers Jimmy Choo and Sonia Rykiel.
The store’s new season pieces include an amazing lingerie collection from the up and coming Sonia Rykiel, whose range boasts some inventive uses of corsages. Pieces from her collection start from around £6.99 so definitely a reasonable price for such an inspirational artist. There are also rumours of Rykiel going on to design a range of affordable unique knits ready for the spring 2010 collection.
Not forgetting the new Jimmy Choo compilation, which saw women camping day and night, come rain or shine outside their local H&M store waiting for the launch of the designer. Not only does this party wear collection include variations of the iconic shoes but also handbags and clothing. The collection is heavily eighties inspired, with a strong theme of electric blue and keeping with current trends leather is also largely featured. Not good enough for you that Jimmy Choo has come to the high street?? Well H&M are charging high-street prices for these staple pieces – so it’s definitely something for everyone!
Topshop is also catering for those of us who have a desire for designer, collaborating with the likes of Christopher Kane and Peter Jensen. Kane describes his new collection as “bad in a good way” and I couldn’t agree more, the line features some rather risqué see-through embellished hotpants, certainly something for those of us who are a little more daring! However Jensen’s limited collection does feature some must-have cream ankle boots, which would go with almost anything. All of these pieces are at affordable prices showing that designer is not just for the rich but can also be for the ‘skint’ student.
Recently there seems to have begun a growing theme of celebrities designing their own clothing lines, with Kate Moss setting the standard at Topshop, closely followed by Sienna and Savannah Miller with their line Twenty8Twelve as well as Ferne Cotton and Holly Willoughby designing for Very.