As the world of fashion undergoes a reckoning around issues as wide-ranging as sustainability, diversity and worker exploitation, the industry’s relentless quest for newness may be missing the point. Across the UK, a new guard of designers is drawing on global influences to ask how we can use our pasts – whether cultural heritage, personal histories or intergenerational trauma and healing – to forge a new path to the future that ricochets between the boundaries of sexuality, gender, race and nationality.
From forgotten corners of Irish women’s history to the drape of traditional South Sudanese dress or the kitsch of 1970s Soviet film, from Portuguese knitting techniques handed down by grandparents toa renegade take on classic French style, this new generation is translating its
