MILAN, Feb 23, 2005/ FW/ --- Christopher Bailey makes autumn dreams into reality. Like kicking through fallen leaves on a path in a park, beauty is breathing, and his ladies are stuck somewhere between their own thoughts, classic romanticism and considering defining themselves as the new female poets.

An all English front row for an all English product, every A list Editor was present as well as Kate Moss’s ex Jefferson Hack sitting next to Stella Tennant, who managed not to work the show but rather enjoy it from the other end.

Working class conductor hats add character to layered looks, winter warm dressing and seventies dreaminess, hippy lightweight thoughts and volume prosperous forms.

Femininity is rich and celebrated. Its good to be a girl dressed in Burberry Prorsum, transforming her sweet mannerisms into layers of cashmere sweaters and cardigans, while the unmistakable college scarf with new fun embellishments of pom-poms and fabric edging just for fun also has hints of ethnic and old worldly loveliness via dangling coins and little tassels.

English traditions are Burberry identifiable as Bailey’s genius sends sparkles of light into the rain, turning grey skies into viola and gold.

Pleats are his chosen sartorial tool for next season, adding them to the back of cropped jackets and knee length skirts that flounce outwards as box pleats and the A-line cut meets the kilt.

The new trench overcoat is dazzling. Accentuating the waist by belting the middle, double sets of pleats fall from the front panels, while the back is pleated as Bailey allows for movement that others have often forgotten.

Military hints continue to run throughout the collection giving the garments rigor and structure as bold brass buttons run down wooly coats and importance is given to shoulders along with practical outer pockets.

Ruffles decorate the feminine to notes of piano playing, whether up sleeves of a cardigan or on velvet edging. In delicious empire line dresses and invidious separates, Burberry Prorsum assures that sensuality remains an inner quality of this classic and contemporary collection, felt not seen, lived not spoken.

Burberry Prorsum

Burberry Prorsum

Burberry Prorsum

Burberry Prorsum