Matthew Williamson's 2010 Spring/Summer Collection

Hilary Alexander: I love Matthew Williamson's collection and I think that he
understands that inside every woman there’s a little bit of a
mug pie. We want the bride sparkle, we want the color, we
want things that are fabulous and he really knows how to
deal with that.

I think what he’s done for next spring summer is it’s not
quite so boohoo. It’s not too floaty hippie-dippy. It’s much
more structured. It’s much more fitted to the body. There’s
a lot more tailoring but through his use of color and print
and also the use of beading, he’s retained that slightly
snake hippie boohoo kind of feel, but it is very
sophisticated.

Matthew Williamson: I wanted to play with natural color and synthetic color. So,
the acid lemon, and then the natural, the sun and then the
stone and together in one collection, but I think those soft
colors were really fresh for me, you know—vibrant chic
colors.

I think it’s kind of a more polish silhouette, high-waisted
and crock jackets, and a lot more structure than I would
normally have in my collection. So you know a stronger,
more powerful silhouette. I feel excited and relieved and
glad the collections’ being shown.