Wallpaper

MAKING TRACKS

ccording to intrepid polymath Hussein Chalayan, we’re living in an era driven by a homespun sense of gumption, of amateur energy, where ‘everyone feels like it’s their right to do anything they want, without worrying about not having the skills’. He channelled this can-do spirit back in February at his A/W20 women’s show, standing at, which he produced with S’Express’ Mark Moore and Big Audio Dynamite’s Dan Donovan. ‘I wasn’t nervous, I was excited. The actuality of an event is like a curtain hanging in front of you and the audience, so you’re protected,’ Chalayan says.

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