Dramatic dresses: the Saltburn effect hits London fashion week

Erdem and Simone Rocha shows saw outfits that could have come from Elspeth Catton’s wardrobe

It’s official: the Saltburn effect has hit London fashion week. Saturday’s catwalk shows by Erdem and Simone Rocha were peppered with dramatic tulle dresses and elbow-length leather gloves that looked as if they had been fetched straight out of the wardrobe of Elspeth Catton, the eccentric matriarch played by Rosamund Pike in Emerald Fennell’s perverse social satire film.

It is Pike and her fellow doyens of the film industry rather than Gen Z influencers who are dominating the front row, which clashes with Sunday’s Baftas ceremony this season.