Designers must fashion the urge to splurge: buyers (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters Life!) –
Designers must innovate to attract recession-hit shoppers and create the kinds of upbeat and colorful collections that will lure spenders, retail buyers said as they head into London Fashion Week.

London, famous for producing some of the world's most avant garde designers and termed the "capital of quirk" by one buyer, is holding its 25th anniversary fashion week from September 18-22.

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