Osman Yousefzada: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Osman Yousefzada is a polymath. He designs clothes, but he’s also an artist, curator, thinker and writer (his debut novel will come out next year). His new business model reflects that. He focuses on two capsule fashion collections a year
Christopher Kane: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Christopher Kane has stepped off the fashion merry-go-round and is working to his own schedule. "Creative to the core" is how the designer described his new attitude. Kane is now fully independent of Kering and powered by his super successful
Erdem: Ready-to-Wear SS21
One of the joys of this socially distanced, semi-digital London Fashion Week is getting one-on-one time with designers. Articulate, well-read and deft at storytelling, Erdem gives good appointment. In the elegant, downstairs salon of his Mayfair boutique, he talked about lockdown.
Victoria Beckham: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Victoria Beckham had a good lockdown. She loved being in the countryside with her family, wearing the same vintage jeans and simple T-shirt every day. As restrictions eased, she shuttled between her home in the Cotswolds and her studio in
Simone Rocha: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Simone Rocha chose not to stage a full-on catwalk show, but she did have live models, arranged in socially distant formation at the Hauser Wirth art gallery. The audience – on strict time schedules designed to keep them separate –
Art School: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Art School began as a riotous celebration of queer visibility. Graduating from Ravensbourne University in 2016, before joining Fashion East's MAN initiative for three seasons, designers Eden Loweth and Tom Barratt burst onto the scene with gender-bending, club kid fashions
Fashion East: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Nothing symbolises the energy, diversity and creativity of London more than Fashion East. In the time of Covid, a film replaced the much-anticipated fashion show with each of the four designers producing an individual short, but Fashion East’s designers still
Bethany Williams: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Earlier this year, London-based designer Bethany Williams was commissioned by Somerset House to make a flag for Earth Day. This was set to be a collaboration with the Magpie Project – a Newham-based organisation that works with children and mothers
Edward Crutchley: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Edward Crutchley makes the sorts of collections which make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck and the bows in your hair levitate above you. Quite literally. For SS21, the designer turned to on-going collaborator Stephen Jones, who
Matty Bovan: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Is there an age limit for national treasure status? Matty Bovan is making a serious case for the category to be extended to his generation. The ultra-creative, upcycling king is a champion of the Yorkshire's localism and craft. He was
Richard Malone: Ready-to-Wear SS21
2020 has been the year of the sweatpant. Who would've thought we'd be spending the turn of the new decade sat on the couch all-day, swapping out our everyday fashions for the comfiest things we could find buried at the
Molly Goddard: Ready-to-Wear SS21
The white gallery-like walls of her East London studio were the perfect backdrop for Molly Goddard’s exuberant collection which literally burst with joy. The designer’s signature smocking and froth net explosions came in optimistic brights and clashing gingham checks. Fantasy and
Preen By Thornton Bregazzi: Ready-to-Wear SS21
What's one way to keep the kids entertained during lockdown? Here's a thought: how about letting them make your latest collection? This was exactly the idea of husband-and-wife design-duo Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi, who encouraged their two daughters –
Halpern: Ready-to-Wear SS21
When the UK went into lockdown back in March, Michael Halpern was part of the legion of London-based designers who took matters into their own hands. Volunteering at a makeshift PPE factory, Halpern swapped out his traditional glistening eveningwear and
Vivienne Westwood: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Second waves are very on-trend right now, whether its viruses or cultural movements. Vivienne Westwood knows all about that. She heralded a second wave of punk with her SS21 collection, unveiled with a film at the socially distanced, semi-digital London