Your SS15 collection really is ‘wearable art’ with a lot of different techniques, textiles and 3D-ness. What was the inspiration behind the designs for this season’s pieces?
The inspiration behind the SS15 collection, like most of my collections comes from the materials and processes. I have an idea about a process and some materials that I want to try and the pieces tend to grow from that. For example this season, we began cutting out the diamond shapes and started to play around with rivets and that’s how the gold dress came to be.
Did you have a particular vision?
Sporty and sculptural.
A lot of your work is hand-made, is this something you prefer to do where possible?
Everything is handmade and created in my Stratford studio, I always use sustainable materials.
The gold structured dress looks so intricate! Talk us through the process of making it…
This was a very time consuming piece to make, in fact I think we were all seeing gold by the time it was finished.
It was made up of singular shapes that were constructed in to multiples which was then built up on to the mannequin. We didn’t actually know what the dress was going to look like when we started, it just grew in shape as we added more multiples.