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February in London is a complete misery of a time. The days are still short, the ground is wet and vitamin D levels are low. Hunkering down at home is surely the best course of action. At the Burberry show on Monday night, the brand’s creative director Daniel Lee had other ideas: Suck it up and get out there.
Designed for a night out in bad weather, the new collection is about “celebrating” Britain in the winter, said Lee backstage, as those of us who haven’t seen the sun since September laughed at the idea of finding joy in February.
The show was staged in the darkened former site of London’s 19th-century Old Billingsgate, once home to the world’s…