With a stately new home at Somerset House and a host of big names coming back to celebrate its 25th anniversary (think Matthew Williamson, Burberry and Pringle), London Fashion Week has plenty to celebrate. We've joined the party by delving into the archives to bring you the 25 most iconic moments of the event we all love to love. 

From Kate Moss on Stella McCartney's graduate catwalk and Victoria Beckham taking a turn on Maria Grachvogel's runway, to Prince performing for Matthew Williamson's previous homecoming and Grace Jones putting on a show from the roof of a limousine, London can always be counted on for some genuinely show-stopping moments. 

Here are some of the moments that have made London Fashion Week great. 

London Fashion Week's 25 Most Iconic Moments

The first London Fashion Week in the format that we know it happened in March 1984: John Galliano, Ghost, Betty Jackson, Wendy Dagworthy, Zandra Rhodes and Jean Muir Bodymap were featured on the schedule. Here, a young John Galliano is pictured receiving the British Designer of the Year award three years later, in 1987, from Trade and Industry secretary Lord Young.

John Galliano receiving the British Fashion Designer of the Year award in 1987. Photo: PA Photos

Alexander McQueen's debut collection in 1992 won headlines with his almost-rude, ultra-low-cut bumster trousers. The range made such an impact on Joan Burnstein of Browns that she bought the range for the famous boutique. 

Here, for his spring/summer 1996 show, McQueen's trademark clever tailoring was put to cheeky use. (PA Photo)

The Designer of the Year award was created in 1984 – the first recipient of it was Katharine Hamnett, who is best known for her famous protest T-shirts. 

Here, Hamnett wore a "58% Don't Want Pershing" T-shirt (in reference to America's controversial Pershing II guided missile being deployed in West Germany), to meet Margaret Thatcher in 1984 at a 10 Downing Street reception for Fashion Week Designers. (PA Photo)

Prince took to Matthew Williamson's spring/summer 2008 catwalk – in a tent in Berkeley Square - for a surprise performance to celebrate the designer's return to London and 10 successful years in the industry.

In February 2001 - after her July 1999 wedding to David and just six months before the release of her first solo single, Out of Your Mind - Victoria Beckham took a walk down Maria Grachvogel's catwalk.

Grace Jones danced on a limo for Philip Treacy’s show in Tiffanys for spring/summer 2001.

Hussein Chalayan’s table dress from his autumn/winter 2001-2 show – during which models took off chair covers to dress themselves before using the furniture itself - was the epitome of conceptual fashion.

Alexander McQueen showed his spring/summer 1994 collection entitled Nihilism at the Bluebird garage in Chelsea in September 1993, when the British Fashion Council sponsored a new talent section for the first time.  (REX)

Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher attended London Fashion Week for the spring/summer 1987 shows, lending the event some stately gravitas. 

Here, the Prime Minister is shown with Jean Muir at the 10 Downing Street reception for London Fashion Week designers in 1984.

In 1995, Kate Moss made a special appearance on the catwalk for Stella McCartney's Central Saint Martins graduate show causing a media storm and generating a lot of interest for the young designer.

Christopher Kane’s first collection was shown at the Central Saint Martins show for autumn/winter 2006-7 and a fashion star was born. Every fashion editor wanted everything. 

In an event that had hundreds of fashionistas queuing down Brook Street all night, Marc Jacobs brought his Marc by Marc Jacobs show to Claridges for the autumn/winter 2007-8 shows. Those that couldn’t fit into the ballroom were forced to watch the show on large screens in the hotel’s foyer.

One year after the terrorist attacks on New York in September 2001, the global fashion capitals agreed to swap the schedule so that New York Fashion Week did not fall over the first anniversary of the tragedy. 

American Vogue editor Anna Wintour agreed to attend the London shows that season to show her gratitude to the designers in this city for showing before their NYC counterparts. Her presence at their shows was bound to garner them good publicity for the spring/summer 2003 season. 

In a passing-of-the-batton gesture, Naomi Campbell and Jourdan Dunn joined Daniella Issa for her catwalk finale at the spring/summer 2009 show - like a model changing of the guard.

In 2001, the Prince of Wales was guest of honour at the British Fashion Awards, held at Battersea Park Arena. That year, Alexander McQueen won the Designer of the Year prize. The moment held special irony since, during his days on Savile Row, McQueen had famously scrawled "I'm a c**t" inside a jacket that was being made for Prince Charles.

Sophie Dahl's first appearance at London Fashion Week came in 1997 – two years after she'd been discovered "crying on a doorstep after a row with her mother" by Isabella Blow. During the autumn/winter 1997-8 collections, Sophie and her famous curves modelled knitwear that left little to the imagination by Lainey Keogh.

For its 25th anniversary, London Fashion Week moves to the grand Somerset House for spring/summer 2010.

In 2003, the British Fashion Awards were rebranded the Style Awards and took on a much more celebrity-based atmosphere – with Pamela Anderson as the hostess. 

Vivienne Westwood's dramatically late appearance onto the stage at the 2008 British Fashion Awards - to co-present Stephen Jones with his Lifetime Achievement Award with Erin O’Connor – was “because I was peeing”.

The world's most famous model, Kate Moss, won the Model of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards in 2001 (pictured). And again in 2006.

Agyness Deyn won the Model of the Year Award at the 2007 British Fashion Awards and called her mother from the stage: "It's my mum on the phone," she said as she took to the stage holding her mobile phone to her ear to collect her award – presented by Roland Mouret. 

"Yes Mum, it's like a fashion Oscar. Here, have a word with everyone," she added as she held the phone to the microphone so we could hear the excited squeals of a very proud parent. "She's well chuffed," said Agyness, before thanking Hilary Riva, Alexandra Shulman, the Northern Massive, Katie Grand ("for my first Pop cover”), Mario Testino ("for first putting me in Vogue") and Giles for the dress. "Even though everyone keeps stepping on it, it's still good!"

Jourdan Dunn won Model of the Year in 2008: "Oh my god," she sobbed. "Now I'm up here I can't say anything sensible and I'm just sounding like a dumb model or something."

Alice Temperley won over the fashion pack at her first show at London Fashion Week for autumn/winter 2003-4. Her catwalk was walked by no less than Jodie Kidd, Liberty Ross, Laura Bailey, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt, Kirsty Hume and Georgina Cooper.

Jemma Kidd on the Temperley autumn/winter 2003-4 catwalk. Photo: Firstview

Henry Holland's tongue-in-cheek rhyming slang T-shirts, which included such naughty catch phrases as "I'm a Tosser for Coco Rocha", "Flick yer Bean for Agyness Deyn", and "Wham Bam Thank You Stam" appeared on the catwalk for his autumn/winter 2007-8 show.  (Firstview)

The British Fashion Awards in 1991 saw Boy George perform with his band, Jesus Loves You, before presenting Philip Treacy with his British Accessory Designer of the Year award. 

Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell were flown in to model at the event, while Beatrix Miller - editor of Vogue from 1965-1985, was presented with the Hall of Fame Award by the Earl of Snowdon.

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