Costume drama: Lauren embraces English style

The second season of Downton Abbey premiered in the US with 4.2m viewers. The show has heavily influenced menswear and womenswear for autumn/winter 2012, first with Burberry’s Prorsum autumn/winter 2012 English country gentlemen-inspired menswear collection and then L’Wren Scott’s Tea Time collection, referencing England from the 1900s to World War II.

The collection is an example of our Revivalism trend, and is also the first time since TV show Mad Men that a pop culture phenomenon has had such an impact on fashion.