Milan Fashion Week: Raoul spring/summer 2013 The Singaporean label shows off a unique selection of spring classics in Milan, all at unique price points, too. If you could only dress from one collection, Raoul would be the pragmatist's choice. This Singaporean-based gem of a label is just about unique at the moment in its breadth, flare and price points. It isn't selling at H&M prices, but at upper end high street ones, and sometimes a bit beyond. Think £600 for a fabulous jewelled-neckline silk floor length evening dress compared with £1800 plus for main lines. So what do you get for your outlay? An intelligently thought-out mixture of classics (silk print shirts with lace inserts, cotton pique pea-coats, floor length silk dirndls with matching boleros) and seasonal wow pieces (putty coloured lace leather shorts, block coloured silk capri pants). You also get fabrications and a quality of production that kicks sand in the faces of the competition, including some of those mid-level brands that show on the catwalks in New York. It's no wonder that even a store with such a high spending customer base as Harrod's can't get enough of Raoul's evening dresses, or that the likes of Selfridges and Matches regularly sell out of its staples - next season it will be those lace tops and pleated, perfect-for-wedding-guests dresses and matching pea- coats and the evolving bag collection which offers classy looking pared-back, top handled bags for around £300. See all the latest from Milan Fashion Week spring/summer 2013 Raoul doesn't do a show, preferring to do appointments in its Milan showroom. And long may that continue, because while it covers the trends through the filter of its own point of view, it's not a statement brand. What it needs is its own store to house the full collection. To the chagrin of fashion editors, whose wardrobes all contain Raoul, its first one probably won't be London where retail estate is, according to its owners Douglas Benjamin, prohibitive, but New York. Are you reading this greedy landlords? Because this is not the first time this complaint's been voiced. You're impeding out shopping opportunities - although perhaps now that the Duchess of Cambridge has discovered Raoul, that may change.