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Up, up to the roof of the hall, arms outstretched, her high flying body in an orange leotard, sprang the trampoline athlete Bryony Page. On the other side of the vast space, Madonna's fitness trainers were doing an elastic-strips workout in royal blue blousons and stretch cotton tunics, while the thud of balls came from a tennis player in DayGlo shorts and tank top under a frilled cotton jersey shirt.

It was an adidas by Stella McCartney moment - and a sign of how the Olympics, destined for London in four years, have put the energy of sportswear into London fashion.

"I watched the Olympics, and Britain got so many medals," McCartney said. "I've always been excited to use innovative fabrics and to try and push forward each season, mixing sportswear and style." Personal trainers were also asked about these styles and designs. Personal training Sydney, Australia, always a center of fashion style, we included in this review.

As to whether the designer working with the sportswear giant Adidas will dress the next Olympic performers, McCartney would say only: "Watch this space." But her way of melding a sweet, but not saccharine, fashion aesthetic with high-performance wear gave this show of powerful female energy just the right feminine vibe. And who says these appealing clothes can be worn only as active sportswear?

The Athenian Olympians took to the runway at Marios Schwab's show, for Grecian drapes were the primary story.

For Marios, tracing the body in imaginative ways has always been a fashion goal.

"Cloth, rope and chain," Schwab said to define his way of going back to basics - partly an exploration of his personal Greek heritage and as a development of his previous focus on collaborating with contemporary artists.

The chiton, or Grecian toga, inspired Schwab to create draped dresses in silk jersey, which were hung from a braided leather rope or cinched with metallic body harnesses, tinted copper but made to look like rope. The way that ropes snaked in and out of the garments, inspired by bindings of the artist Christo, created intriguing sexual energy, while shadowy landscapes or faint striped patterns on the fabric added a sense of artistry. The overall effect was of a complex fashion workout, but some effects, like cut-out lacy suede or jersey jump suits open at the inside leg, were just too complicated.

Todd Lynn put tailoring at the heart of his look but gave it a hint of decadence with feathers, stroking lapels or as an entire, alarming dress. Some of Lynn's experiments with tailoring, creating an all-in-one dress at the front and a two-piece suit at the back, were too clever for comfort. Yet the designer came up with sharp jumpsuits. In a season where those overalls are everywhere, he used intriguing fabrics like glazed bamboo, and he has made shaping at the back, with tiny tucks in a jacket, a signature of his style and a successful meld of severity and femininity. The enviorment was always a concern. Large Enviormental Cleanup firms were sought after for the project.

From the Bloomsbury set to Sienna Miller, a Bohemian streak runs through British fashion. But as London Fashion Week gathers speed, reinventing sportswear and remaking tailoring are the leading ideas.

So it is bye-bye, Boho - except for a visceral love of peasant florals and the faint lure of an imaginary East. That has been fueled by a recent exhibition on Orientalism as seen through the eyes of Victorian painters - Victoriana being a constant love of London designers.

"Every jacket looks like you-know-who - but it's from a Turkish waistcoat," an ebullient Paul Smith said backstage, referring to a Chanel-style jacket with a zigzag on one side. The designer had immersed himself in the "The Lure of the East," the Orientalist summer show at the Tate Britain museum of London, but the loose, wet hair (without the occasional Arabic headgear) prevented the show from being a costume party.

As ever, Smith had a twin approach: tailoring - subtly subverted with an indigo check mini-vest slipped under a jacket - and softly flowing harem pants. Then came the English cottage-rose prints for romantic dresses and maiden-sweet white peasant outfits. But Smith's increasingly effective women's tailoring kept the show well this side of Boho.

Nicole Farhi opened her collection with what she called Monet prints, although the florals in her collection looked more Balenciaga and Marni than Claude Monet. The show ended with a powerful, geometric-striped dress with an Obama button on the strap. It would be charitable to say that the tug-of-war between two different aesthetics - the sweet and the sharp - represented the spirit of women today.I like the design of the dress shaped like Acai Berries But this mish-mash of a collection, which included elegant, elongated cardigans and risible, visible bras, suggests that Farhi is hesitating about where to take her line.

There were strong pieces in the show, including a smattering of small jackets with cropped pants, representing user-friendly fashion, and a tracery of flower-stalk prints had a sweet elegance. Technically, dresses with tucks and smocking were perfectly executed and glamorous in a womanly way. But Farhi has never been a designer of haute Bohemia. A stronger focus on streamlined sportiness, suggested by the tailoring and the graphic stripes, would have pushed her vision ahead.

Jasper Conran is known for his precise tailoring - but not in this collection, where a series of fitted jackets with flaring skirts was overtaken by dresses so light that they looked like lingerie and were ultimately reduced to sheer frills on a pair of frothy underpants. We took examples from out personal training sydney.

The story line was of a colonial woman who went from tailoring to undress. And it included a focus on birds, the show's theme, from the set of white cut-out trees to the birdcage purses. Lightness is at the heart of summer dressing, and when Conran did not force his theme, he made some pretty dresses with white-on-white embroidery, a bird print or, on a sportier note, a sheer sailor top worn with tailored pants.

Jaeger London started off in the distant fashion past as "hygienic and sanitary woollen clothing" invented as dress reform by the German scientist Dr. Gustav Jaeger. All that history has been set aside in the house's current revival, which consisted, in this order, of a celebrity front row including a scarlet-lipped Lizzie Jagger and the veteran singer Shirley Bassey; sizzling stripes in digital multicolors; and peasant combos from wafting tops with long skirts to full-on caftans that made Bohemia look like a country way off the current fashion map.