Remembering L'Wren Scott's Dazzling Career.

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It was another one of those shock announcements that burst onto our TV screens late on the 17^th March 2013, the sudden death of fashion designer L’Wren Scott certainly wasn’t to be expected. The model turned designer whose label had only been open for 8 years, but that appeared to be enough time to illustrate her tremendous work ethic and determination to dress the celebrities of the showbiz world.

According to her biography on the designer’s main website, the 49 year old who started out in Paris as a model to go onto Los Angeles to become a stylist, L’Wren Scott went on to fulfil her dream to design luxury clothing. In 2006, the L’Wren Scott brand launched but with a little difference; she named each and every one of her collections, ‘The Little Black Dress’ and ‘Bois de Boulogne’ featured along with her recent collaboration with Banana Republic.

L’Wren Scott had many celebrities who would favour her designs on more than one occasion, Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman are among the rich and famous who displayed Scott’s designs so beautifully, it was evident that she wanted to create for the luxury woman to show off her sexy silhouette. Speaking to Harpers Bazaar in December 2013, her proficiency evidently excelled, “I have dressed millions of different types of bodies over the years, and that provides a useful insight into what women want and, crucially, what actually works”. Figure-hugging, intricate attention to detail, and glitz and glam illustrated L’Wren’s well-known floor length sensations. Her 1950’s style, took a sudden twist with elements of high vibrancy colour, shorter hemlines and modern prints but her traditional close-fitting silhouettes were her forte.  L’Wren’s designs were very different to any other red carpet glam, it was almost as if she understood what every woman wanted and catered to her needs, her dresses elegantly slipped in like a glove and the heavy embellishment, which dazzled and finished each piece off. Each dress spoke for itself.

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With evidence of a company loss of over £3 million along with the cancellation of her show at London Fashion Week earlier this year, assumptions could be made that this could link to Scott’s alleged suicide passing. But no matter what the reason, L’Wren appeared to be very much under pressure for her company to succeed and there didn’t seem to be a lot of help out there for her and her relatively new brand to survive. L’Wren described herself to Harpers Bazaar as a ‘worker bee’, and she should have been able to continue being exactly that. I’m sure L’Wren Scott designs will live on whether its in the walk-in wardrobes of the rich and famous or better still in-house, but we know for certain her jaw-dropping knockouts will stick in the minds of fashion.