London Fashion Week runs from the 20th to the 25th of September and is fully established as one of London's premier events. With over 150 designer exhibitors, over 50 catwalk shows on the official show schedule and many more on the ever expanding 'off-schedule' list, Fashion Week is impossible to miss and even harder to ignore. In accompaniment to SHOWstudio's programme of London Fashion Week projects with designers Eley Kishimoto, Jens Laugesen and Hamish Morrow, we have asked photographers Mauro Cocilio and Gerald Jenkins to give a live account of the tears tantrums and triumphs that go off backstage at the Boudicca, Sophia Kokosalaki and Gibo by Julie Verhoeven catwalk shows.

Project credits
Images and text: Mauro Cocilo and Gerald Jenkins
Technical Development: Dorian Moore

Artist Profiles
Mauro Cocilo
Photographer Mauro Cocilio was born in Sardinia in 1971. He studied photography at both the European Institute of Design in Rome and Westminster College in London. [More...]

Gerald Jenkins
Gerald Jenkins is a photographer whose work crosses a variety of photographic styles. [More...]

Boudicca
Boudicca is the thinking women's favourite label. Renowned not only for their startlingly elegant, monochrome garments and razor-sharp tailoring, Boudicca's designers are revered for their conceptual approach to design and politicised ideologies. [More...]

Sophia Kokosalaki
Greek born Sophia Kokosalaki graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1998 with an MA in Womenswear. [More...]

Julie Verhoeven
Julie Verhoeven has worked in numerous ways across fashion and design, from illustration to creative direction and design consultancy. [More...]