Because keeping up with the hottest trends doesn’t have to cost the Earth…

So today is the day we sadly say goodbye to London Fashion Week and well done to everyone who’s worked so hard over the past few days.

We’ve been pretty busy too dashing about at Somerset House and snapping all the best of Spring/Summer 2013 fashion. One of our favourite things about the Estethica exhibition this season was the new brand new faces – introducing Millinery by Mich Dulce, ready-to-wear by Auria X Margot Bowman, Carla Fernandez, Maxjenny and White Tent, and also a special guest collection from Honest By Bruno Pieters.

And there were a few familiar faces there too. Global Cool had a lovely catch up with Beate Kubitz of Makepiece and checked out her gorgeous new collection. Expect to see quite a few pretty shades of purple and lilac in the Spring/Summer 2013 collection – one of the hottest colour trends for the beginning of next year. We also bumped into Ada Zanditon who showed us her funky new designs for Tigress Reign – an eye-popping mix of animal print, bottle green, bright coral and tan leather panelling.

We’re going to keep it nice and simple and show you our favourite pieces through the power of Instagram because we’re a little it obsessed with it (join in and follow us at global_cool). Hope you like all our top picks…

Here comes the science bit…

GC articles show you one of four ways (the one in bold) to live greener…

/ Be a winner (not a binner) /
/ Turn up the style (not the heat) /
/ Love the trend (not the spend) /
/ Do it in public (not the car/plane) /

Pics: Emily Rycroft