Under the fluorescent lights of the University of Westminster’s industrial Ambika P3 space, the school’s 2024 BA fashion design graduates presented their collections. With alumni including S.S.Daley,and Priya Ahluwalia, this year’s class looked to goat corpses, teenage fashion mistakes, and familial memories to craft collections that packed a punch.
So she did. Traversing through the depths of her closet, the designer pulled six pieces — a camouflage parka from Primark, an Ugg boot, a sequin body-con dress that every teen has tried on, to name a few — and reimagined them as pieces she’d wear today. Flipping through her research book, the designer explained how she referenced images of her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother and reinterpreted their clothes.