We call it a fashion show, but the Victoria’s Secret show really does transcend so many sectors of culture. That’s why, whenever I was thinking and dreaming about it, I wanted it to feel like a spectacle, to cut through culture, grab people’s attention and create dialogue and discourse. It

La Watchparty is the community-built, fashion-first phenomenon that’s becoming the most democratic event of fashion month.

“Pass our Nats by in Golden Square and you’re bound to mistake her for a chain-smoking Michelle Williams. For real. They have the exact same porcelain features and pissed-off expression.” So said Vincent Levy of his 10 colleague, the inimitable Natalie Dembinska, who died of cancer in September 2024.

When Roland Mouret, beams onto my screen he is video-calling in from his art studio in Farringdon, central London. A little late, he apologises profusely. A warm and fuzzy presence, he’s wearing a paint-splattered jacket and sporting a trimmed beard. He’s, well, not what I expected.

Kitten are producers of still, motion and digital content for the fashion, beauty and luxury industries, with offices in Paris, Barcelona and Milan. While Kitty is an agency based in Paris that specialises in the production of fashion shows and events.

Parr’s work serves as an ongoing study of the absurdities of UK life, which happens to be the subject matter of his latest release.