FROM ARMS FACTORIES TO NURSES AND THE NAVY, STYLE QUEE

Holly Fulton took her inspiration from the women who manned munitions factories. She used yellow to represent the colour their skin went due to TNT poisoning. Sadie Williams created a spangly, floorlength gown in blue and silver with a large red cross across the bust, as homage to the superwomen World War I nurses.

The Edinburgh-born couturier, who counts Sarah Jessica Parker and Keira Knightley among her many celebrity fans, has created an outfit based on the shift in women’s fashion during and after the Great War.

Holly, 40, who has just launched a collection with River Island, based her black trouser and canary yellow coat ensemble on research she did into female munitions workers.

It’s all part of a new trend towards the styles worn by the first generation of liberated women a century ago.

Holly is not the only designer to be inf luenced by the unrestrained silhouettes necessitated by the onset of war in 1914 – Vivienne Westwood, Sadie Williams, Roksanda, Emilia Wickstead and J JS Lee are al l following the craze.

Holly said: “I discovered there was a munitions factory near where I live in London by Hackney Marshes.

“Looking back at imagery from the time, I focused on the extremely hazardous conditions within these and also the social transitions occurring as women were employed in weapons manufacture.

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