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Whether it’s po-faced editors surveying a line of models at a runway show, or exhibition visitors peering through glass vitrines at lifeless clothing, there’s an air of detachment around how clothing is received or displayed on the catwalk or in a gallery.

Jamaican-Scottish menswear designer Nicholas Daley doesn’t subscribe to either method of presentation. His community-and-heritage-celebrating catwalk shows in London throb with the drumbeats

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