BIANCA SAUNDERS
he 2021 winner of the Andam award, one of fashion’s most prestigious prizes, Bianca Saunders was selected for her subtly subversive designs, which play with the traditional textures and proportions of menswear garments. Her upbringing, in the London suburb of Lewisham, inspires much of her work, which she describes as making the ‘familiar unfamiliar’, and her S/S23 collection looked towards Jamaican ‘hard food’, such as plantains and yams, and how they are boiled for
