This may have been Simone Rocha's first show on London Fashion Week's official schedule, but the young NEWGEN-sponsored Central St Martins grad is one of the week's standouts. Since launching her line four seasons ago, the Irish designer, who had previously shown with Fashion East, has played with the masculine and the feminine, as well as texture and transparency.

"There's such a scope for doing new exciting things," said Alistair Carr of his post as creative director at Pringle of Scotland. The designer, who formerly worked under Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga, just completed his fourth women's collection for the heritage house. And he has arrived at an impressive balance of cool and classic.

"Belief in religion and a great sex life." This, jokes Stephen Jones, London's legendary patriarch of eccentric headgear, is what it takes to be a hat person. One can only assume that guests at the Friday opening of "Headonism," a showcase at London Fashion Week which, curated by Jones, highlights five of Britain's most exciting new millinery talents, have both.

Watching Mary Katrantzou's fall/winter collection strut down the runway Tuesday morning was like flipping through an I Spy book. Are those typewriter keys on that coat? Is that a spoon I see? And a hanger-print bodice? All of the above and more appeared on the designer's hyper-sculpted fall looks.

Monday night, for the first time in its five-year history, Alexander McQueen's McQ line took to the runway in a dark London warehouse. And thanks to Sarah Burton's cryptic conceptual theatrics, as well as the dramatic clothes that captured the couture-level essence of the main line, McQ's grand fashion week debut did not disappoint.

Central Saint Martins' graduation show is a list of ones to watch in fashion. Nary a year passes without some or another of its graduates quickly becoming well known names, at least (at first) to industry insiders (2011's all-star was Maarten Van Der Horst—Opening Ceremony is already a stockist). So who's up next for entry in to the exclusive and sickly talented Saint Martins pantheon? Meet Craig Green.