London fashion is finished with posh style – get real with This is England '90

It has dropped the upper-class accent and fallen back in love with lo-fi style. Next spring’s trends are anoraks over short skirts, long dresses with flat shoes, spaghetti straps and acid brights

If you want London fashion week in a nutshell, it’s this: autumn is all about This is England ’90 on a Sunday night, not Downton Abbey. It is not long since the catwalks were in thrall to Downton – in 2011, we were awash with velvet and pearls and sparkly hair jewellery – but now, fashion has dropped the posh accent and fallen back in love with the real and the lo-fi.

What this means for what you will wear next spring starts with more black than we’ve seen for a while. Also acid brights, charity-shop leopard and shocks of yellow. Spaghetti straps, and therefore (for bra reasons), yes to nipples but no to cleavage. Tea dresses, but as worn by Courtney Love, not by Lady Edith. Long dresses with flat shoes, as at Burberry, or anoraks over short skirts, as at Hunter Original.