This Autumn 2010 sees bStore showcase their first complete women's collection, designed by Natascha Stolle. A firm believer in wearability, Stolle's design style focus on a grown-up aesthetic with wool tailoring, flannels, tweeds and cashmere mixes. For her bStore collection, Stolle takes inspiration from an imagined, faded, aristocratic family spending the weekend at a country estate, Wyndham. The period is blurred with a feel of the 40s and 70s eras, where the tailoring lends a masculine edge, but the cut of the shirts and jackets is still soft and decidedly feminine. Boxy jackets are softly tailored with casual draping, and high waist tailored trousers with detailing are cut in fluid double crepe which is voluminous and clinging in equal measures. Versatile coats with detachable hoods and tie belt/pockets add a personal approach to layering for variety in everyday dressing. The bStore empire grows slowly but steadily...