London Fashion Week has always been at the cutting edge of the runway culture.

Now, it appears as if the last taboo in the fashion industry has finally been broken, after models showed off what not to wear.

Adorned in just heels and big hair/ hat combinations, the models showcased the offerings of wig maker Charlie Le Mindu, although viewers were treated to the runway nudes showcasing rather a lot more.

As a wig maker, there can be no denying that naked models will draw attention to your designs, but industry purists may find the bold decision less than appropriate. There has, for some time, been an unwritten rule that the catwalk is not the place for full nudity, though few designers offer pieces that require no clothing at all. French-born Le Mindu has only been at the helm of his new label for just over a year, but in that time has managed to grab headlines with a series of flamboyant and quirky creations such as wigs in the style of the Eiffel Tower.

The 24-year-old Le Mindu, whose creations are a favourite of Lady Gaga, has caused the biggest stir so far at London Fashion Week, only days after the launch. The audience was certainly not prepared, with many of the industry’s leading lights visibly discomforted by the nudity. Still, the naked forms on the runway were an improvement from his Fashion Week debut last year, when animal rights activists were outraged at a full headdress made from rat and mice carcasses.

Known as the birthplace of edgy designer clothes, London Fashion Week has taken a new direction.

The fashion industry has changed in the past few years, with smart designers responding to widespread changes in attitudes. This means that having a wardrobe with a conscience is now almost as important as celebrity endorsement.

Today, for the first time in its history, the British Fashion Council – which runs the iconic London Fashion Week – has added a sustainable catwalk show to its program. While ethical fashion has existed on the periphery of the industry for some time, it now finds itself sharing the limelight thanks to acclaimed international designers such as Christopher Kane and Burberry.

Clarence House is the setting for the open air event which will see established designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney joined by the likes of People Tree and Junky Styling – the former known for its celebrity partnership with Sienna Miller and Emma Watson. While both Westwood and McCartney will have later shows in London and Paris, their presence at the ethical runway adds significant clout and influence.

The show will be held in conjunction with the Prince’s Charities Foundation initiative START, which seeks to promote and celebrate sustainable living. London Fashion Week is already the site of Esthetica, the static exhibition which showcases those designers on the edge with a commitment to eco-sustainability.

London Fashion Week featured a new designer, whom no one has ever heard of. His name is Hakaan, a 37-year-old based in Instanbul who won a fashion competition in Turkey. The competition victory earned him attention from Mert Alas, who is part of the photographic duo Matt & Marcus, who photograph about half of the fashion campaigns in the world.

Hakaan wasn’t expected at all this season, but he has made an immediate impact on critics. He even attracted Vogue editor Carine Roitfield to the show, while Kate Moss also attended to see the designs firsthand. The new designer also booked some rather well known models, Anje Rubik, Natalia Vodianova, Lara Stone and Natasha Poly, as well as Vogue stylist Edward Enninful.

The clothes Hakaan has designed are testament to why Roitfeld just had to be there. They look like they have been made specifically for her. They feature short, lean dresses with bold shoulders and hips with cut-outs, as well as have a toned down color palette that combines London edge with French elegance.

In just this single show, Hakaan has founded himself as one of the industries most exciting-to-watch designers during this London Fashion Week. He joins another well talked about designer this season, Mark Fast, who has put his plus-size models down the catwalk with body-conscious knit styles.

There’s always more room in the fashion industry for visionary designers who will cater to the elegant yet edgy group of celebrities. It’s nearly certain that, with the response given this week, Hakaan will become a new big name in fashion.

Plus size models took to the catwalk on Saturday at London Fashion Week in the newest collection from Mark Fast, the British knitwear designer. The show came not long after fresh arguments started in New York over what fashion models should weigh.

The British designer was at the center of this same issue last September during London Fashion Week. A stylist was forced to deny that she walked out of his show due to him using models that wore bigger sizes than most. British size 12 Hayley Morley was one of the models at that show, and Fast also used her in this year’s show.

Fast’s new collection was more conservative than last season, but the natural curves of the women were clearly defined. As one of the most up and coming designers in London, his collection was more practical for Autumn/Winter 2010. It featured tight dresses with detailing around the hem and neck, as well as matching swaying skirts and cropped capes.

The dispute over how much a model should or should not weigh lays heavily in the fashion industry this year. It all started with Monika Jagaciak, a 16-year-old model that wears the standard sample size 0. On the other end of the weighing scale, Coco Rocha has complained that she is being overlooked as a model due to weighing too much at 110lbs.

However, Britain is praising stores for revealing British size 16 mannequins in their windows for a limited time to show that a majority of women in the UK are between the sizes of 14 and 16. The head of creative department for Debenhams, Mark Stevens, says that they are proud to offer a variety of choices for women of every age, shape and size at their stores, and they wanted to reflect that in their windows.

This is very exciting news for Londoners and others around the world that are totally obsessed with fashion and just go into tears when thinking about not getting to go to London Fashion week. This is one of the best weeks in the whole year, aside of course from other fashion weeks.

But on Wednesday, every person out there that was crying stopped when the British Fashion Council announced that they plan to stream the show for the first time on their website. This is also the first of the 4 major international fashion weeks to go digital and stream the shows.

The first Digital Schedule will be on February 19, and fashion obsessed men and women can go to www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/digitalschedule, which will lead to more information about the streaming and a schedule of all the catwalk shows and presentations. British Fashion Council chief executive Caroline Rush says that this is great step in developing their digital strategy and is an important area of development for the future.

The streaming will feature all the designers who will be showing at Somerset House. Some of the big names include Burberry Prorsum, Marios Schwab, Jonathan Saunders and Vivienne Westwood Red Label. There will also be short films created by the likes of Twenty8Twelve, Antoni & Alison, Boudicca, and Danielle Scutt shown between the shows. Hussein Chalayan will also show three of his most iconic short films from the past decade.

Now it’s totally unbearable that we have to wait! But this London Fashion Week will definitely be the best in history, as now anybody who wants to watch it can without leaving home!