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Show-stopping flapper dresses: Have a Moulin Rouge moment in a 1920s-inspired frock

What is the seemingly endless appeal of the 1920s for fashion designers?

Maybe it’s the last flush of post-war decadence, ending with a bang with the 1929 stock-market crash when suddenly waists rose, skirts dropped (allegedly calculated to boost the fabric industry by using more material) and the Flapper found she had to grow up, wake up and go and find gainful employment.

Prior to that was a decade of unrivalled, unbridled freedom. Hemlines rose higher than ever in recorded history, until a glimpse of stocking, to paraphrase Cole Porter, was looked on anything but shocking.

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Women, emancipated and empowered by wartime employment, exercised the same freedom previously only afforded to men. Hence the fact that Victor Margueritte titled his 1922 novel La Garçonne, a phrase which immediately caught on as a description of the decade’s slender, boyish shaped and severely shingled hair.

The flapper look still has a fashion relevance today – it can still look modern, although its lost its power to startle and shock.

Modern flapper frocks come in all shapes and guises, from bead-fringed Miu Miu shimmy gowns, to print-plastered Peter Pilotto slip-dresses, to sequin-encrusted tube skirt and brief bodices. The slither of midriff between keeps those looking contemporary.

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Ex-Brit School pupil Daniel Tanner is 'one to watch' in fashion world with London College of Fashion show

After treading the boards in West End shows an ex-Brit School pupil is sending models down the catwalk in his new role as a fashion designer.

As a dancer Daniel Pascal Tanner’s credits included Phantom of the Opera, We Will Rock You, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Wizard of Oz.

But the 33-year-old has decided to retrain at the London College of Fashion, studying for a degree in fashion design technology: womenswear.

Mr Tanner, from Croydon, got to show off his designs when he was chosen to open the college’s Ones to Watch fashion show in front of VIPs and fashion industry insiders.

He said: “LCF has given me the opportunity to develop an understanding of my identity and how to express it creatively through my work.

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“This collection is my honest representation of my understanding of sexuality and gender identity.

“It is a deconstruction of fashion from the perspective of a man studying womenswear and integrating these ideas with feminism and ideals of equality.

“It explores the boundaries of women’s and men’s fashion and projects the ideal of equality and acceptance of all genders, including transgender.

“The collection breaks down the social construction of gender role identities, by considering what happens when a boy puts on the fairytale princess dress.

“It is a comment on the social construction of gender roles which are implemented and imposed through clothing.”

He added: “I designed my collection for an individual who is daring and experimental in her fashion choices; someone who doesn’t simply buy garments because they are ‘on trend’ or because they make them look ‘sexy’.

“Instead, someone who wears clothes to create and reflect the person they want to be - not who they think they should be.”

Sitting on the front row amongst others for the show were footwear designer Jimmy Choo, singer Laura Mvula and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams.

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