Models display daring topless looks as London Fashion Week gets off to a risque start

Last updated at 9:50 PM on 16th September 2011

It's not unusual for models to reveal a glimpse of chest on the catwalk.

But on the first day of London Fashion Week, it seems to have become something of a trend.

Jena Theo, Bora Aksu and even one of Samantha Cameron's favourite designers Emilia Wickstead made topless part of the show today.

Bora Aksu, Jena Theo and Emilia Wickstead paid tribute to womanly shapes at London Fashion Week

Jena Theo sent more than one topless model down the runway at her Spring Summer 2012 show

And while fashion appears to me in the midst of a Sixties revival, it seems a fitting nod to bra burning to expose so much of the female form.

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Emilia Wickstead featured floaty silhouttes and babydoll dresses as models walked to 'Music to Watch the Girls Go By'.

Jenna Theo also featured babydoll dresses with dramatic eyeliner, false eyelashes and plenty of blusher.

Dramatic silhouettes: Gothic meets Sixties at the Bora Aksu show - with a nod to grunge

Models pose at The Rodnik Band Presentation at the St. Martins Lane Hotel

Demonstration chic: The Rodnik Band, presented at the St. Martins Lane Hotel, attempt to save the fish

Bora Aksu went for a more Gothic theme with a nod to the Edwardian era - popularised by Downton Abbey and The Twilight Saga.

And with a remake of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby currently being filmed, starring Carey Mulligan and Leonardo Di Caprio, the Twenties is also a major retro trend for next summer.

Corrie Nielsen paid tribute to the East with a Japanese-themed show.

Trends to emerge today also include hues of green and peach.

Maria Grachvogel, Jean-Pierre Braganza and Caroline Charles make use of block colour

Corrie Nielsen's show is inspired by Japan in the East meets West show