John Richmond autumn/winter 2010/11Milan Fashion Week

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Milan Fashion Week Published: 10:51AM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

Milans proprietor rock"n"roller, the British designer, John Richmond, stayed loyal to form, in a pick up that delivered on all aspects of the rock-chick aesthetic.

Short, tight, serpent-print dresses,finished high on the thigh, on top of suspenders, stockings and stilettoes. Sprayed-on, stretch-satin jeans were ragged with zip-off sheepskin coat-jackets. Sequinned micro-dresses were beaded in geometric blocks of china and gold, and ragged with over-the-knee bullion boots. Long, slinky, red gowns, winding down the body, to the floor, and featured low cover backs enclosing a "necklace" opposite the unclothed spine, of draped china chains. Best was Richmonds take on the tail-coat. A sleeveless version, tailored in black, ragged with a classical white shirt, and skinny, grey denim jeans, looked fresh.

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A culmination march of sharply-cut white tailcoats, ragged "topless" with variations on unsettled denim skinnies, joined tailoring with biker-mode - but a small of the models looked as if they would have elite a small tank-top underneath, or, at least, a relating bra.