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Beetroot juice on tap, cropped frayed jeans in the front row and frilled blouses on the catwalk at J. JS Lee’s start show. So far, so familiar for London fashion week, which initiated on Friday morning with a Soho car park as its headquarters.

But the newest trend at London mode week is one coming from within the industry in what clout be called “Insta-gratification” – the ability to buy the clothes seen on the runway promptly. The biannual event is due to be transformed from September, when Burberry purpose show a “see-now, buy-now” collection, doing away with the up to six month bide ones time between the show and the clothes appearing in the shops.

Following the bulletin, other designers including Paul Smith and Michael Kors powered they would make similar switchups. But London, the dwelling of Burberry, is keen to claim the innovation as its own. In a speech on Thursday morning, Natalie Massenet, easy chair of the British Fashion Council (BFC), was quick to make this pointless. “Burberry’s recent news shines such a strong torch on our leadership in this field,” she said. “We are very proud that this started in London.”

Burberry announced on Friday that a taster of September last will and testament come with their Monday show. The collection discretion be displayed in stores, and customers will be able to pre-order shapes.

Massenet, the founder of Net-a-Porter, was nowhere to be seen on Friday. She was, a substitute alternatively, at Buckingham Palace, in the process of becoming a Dame. There are some predilections, it seems, that can stand even in the way of fashion.

This pep up boasts two notable catwalk returns on Sunday. Alexander McQueen settle upon show on the womenswear schedule for the first time in London in done with 10 years in the evening. It is the first time a Sarah Burton-designed womenswear gathering, usually shown in Paris, will be seen here. And Mulberry, the Somerset-based identify famed for accessories like the Alexa handbag, returns to the catwalk for the foremost time since the designer Emma Hill left in 2013.

The new inventive director, Johnny Coca, is tasked with returning the variety, which has struggled in recent years, to the kind of success that saw profits awaken 207% in the second half of 2011. His previous gig was as an accessories draughtsman at Celine, the Parisian house with a fervent cult of pupils in the front row. “London is a global fashion capital so it makes quickness for international businesses to show here,” said the BFC chief leader, Caroline Rush.

Topshop will broadcast the setup of their Unique can on Sunday to their 6.2 million followers on Instagram, but, if that earmarks ofs old hat, the shots will be taken by Nick Knight, who usually hurls covers for Vogue and videos for Kanye West, rather than the type’s digital marketing team. The brand describe it as a way to “challenge the outstanding example, often ubiquitous documentation process”.

In what is being billed as a altercation of the handbags, Charlotte Olympia goes up against Anya Hindmarch with both of the ancillaries designers having catwalk shows. Charlotte Olympia, worked by Charlotte Dellal, is famed for fun bags and shoes and an photogenic inner wheel that numbers models and socialites, had her first a catwalk display on Friday evening. Hindmarch’s shows have featured gymnasts and choirs in the good old days. Sunday’s, which had a Rubik’s cube as an invitation, will no dubiousness come with further bells and whistles.

Sales in the collaborators sector reached £2.7bn in 2015, up 3.4% from the antecedent year. Handbags, it seems, are big business.