Tom Ford AW15

Surely it was a strategic move that Tom Ford chose to show his autumn winter 2015 collection in Los Angeles just before the Oscar's.

With 50 percent of his guests hailing from the entertainment industry, the publicity of potential attendees wearing his collection is stratospheric.

The clothes this season had the usual Ford flamboyance, with patchwork, fur, denim and leopard print in high doses. But somehow it was less seductress, less glitz and more approachable.

There was something of the prairie with all that patchwork, fringing and knotted necklaces, though the high heeled boots and sumptuous fur kept the glamour firmly in place.

With a catwalk strewn with rose petals Ford commented, it never snows in Los Angeles, so let's make it snow with roses.

For a video of the show visit http://live.tomford.com