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Ed Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff have been around for a few seasons now, but it was there AW09 collection that really made the fash-pack sit up and take notice. I’m all too aware that everyone has blogged them to death already, but with images like the two below on their website, and the amazing level of deconstruction in their clothes, how could I possibly miss them out? They are a biker-chic-scruffy-loving-grunge-gals dream, but with embellishment galore and a slick undercurrent of mannish tailoring.

Usually when I blog about a designers work, I select my favourite six images and write about those, but with the Meadham Kirchhoff AW09 collection, I couldn’t possibly limit myself that drastically. Style.com had provided us with twenty-three corkers, and so I managed (after much umm-ing and ahh-ing) to whittle it down to my fourteen, yes fourteen, favourites. The duo started off as menswear designers, which is apparent this season - tailored shirts, trousers and jackets were all sent down the runway, fully deconstructed and partly unravelling. The trousers were patched, embroidered and distressed, and the pair that drew the biggest gasp from my lips were those with split knee detailling. Breton tops were over-printed and turned into abstract wonders, while Manolo Blahnik boots were embellished and crystalled to within an inch of their stiletto-heeled lives. The matador jacket was an utter triumph, while the deconstructed and part-shredded crisp white shirt is bound to spawn a thousand copies, and within days I can almost guarantee there will be ‘DIY-Get-Yer-Kirchoff-Here’ tutorials all over the blogosphere.

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