SPLASH OF COLOUR

Seeing the future with optimistic eyes, Rejina Pyo says her SS22 collection, “Captures the joy and freedom that comes with the arrival of summer”.

The designer chose the London Aquatics Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, to stage her first London Fashion Week show since the pandemic. “I wanted to create the mood of being near to the water,” she tells us.

Silhouettes were less structured than in previous seasons, tailoring was relaxed; dresses and shirts delicately draped and orange, pink and acid green swimwear was made with Italian recycled nylon.

Photographs she’d taken on past travels to New York and Seoul were printed in full colour across T-shirts, tops and skirts; and a mouse motif, inspired by a children’s book she reads to her son, found its way onto a range of lightweight knitwear.

“It’s a very relaxed and casual kind