London Fashion Week is the pinnacle of the fashion season, and it features an array of native designers, from Burberry and Vivenne Westwood to Alexander McQueen and Nicole Farhi. The roots of London's place as the international epicenter of haute couture and pr t- -porter stretch back centuries, and they are explored here by Alistair O'Neill. Arguing that fashion was central to the impact of modernity in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century...