For a time to this part it is becoming clear that fashion has extended its reach and interest to the world of children, perhaps in a process that began back in the late last century. A kind of infantilization of casual or sport clothing that reached all age segments of the urban middle classes.

 

Commentators observe a tendency of the fact that adults dress like children in some ways, something with very suggestive sociological and psychological implications of the phenomenon that in recent years has directly become the target of a large number of designers and clothing brands, as evidenced both by the disturbing appearance of model children (the most famous of which is perhaps Romeo Beckham) and the fact that the estimated value of the luxury garment industry for children in the UK only is over 500 million pounds.

Within this process the first Global Kids Fashion week strongly emphasizes this trend (http://eu.alexandalexa.com/global-kids-fashion-week) taking place in an extremely disconcerting scenario for the event happens to take place in the headquarters of the Unified Masonic Grand Lodge of London, located in the central and distinctly theatrical Covent Garden, also famous for its market.

The event, which has the support of the Victoria & Albert Museum of decorative arts, design and fashion (probably the most important of its kind in the world) and the Museum of Childhood and provides a  comprehensive program of walkways, performances, exhibitions, lectures, conferences and other activities focused on children´s world luxury fashion .

The list of designers participating in the event gives us a rough idea of the magnitude of it, it includes artists and companies of the prestige of Paul Smith Junior, Junior Gaultier, Chloe, Little Marc Jacobs, I Pinco Pallino, Suzanne Ermann, Anne Kurris or Supertrash, among others.

Within the program there are two main runways, one reserved strictly for the media and other open to the public, to raise funds to support the work of the charity Kids Company, whose main objective is paradoxically improve the living conditions of children of the lower classes in the UK. In the first of them they will present the latest trends for autumn / winter of 2013 while the second, sponsored by AlexandAlexa company will offer proposals for season this spring / summer this year.

 

If you rent apartments in London , maybe you feel like exploring this world in different ways and see this suggestive historical moment we are going through.