After last season deviating to Frieze London to show her SS23 collection at Hyde Park’s Serpentine Galleries, designer Roksanda Ilincic returned to the official London Fashion Week schedule this February.
And in a homecoming to the intimacy of her first-ever presentation, held at Terence Conran’s Bibendum restaurant in South Kensington, back in 2005, she again created a salon-inspired ambience, this time inside Claridge’s hotel’s adjoining French Salon and Drawing Room.
Growing up in a house filled with art and originally studying architecture and applied arts at the University of Belgrade, Roksanda had felt an attachment to the art world long before she moved to London to complete an MA in womenswear at Central Saint Martins and then going on to launch her eponymous fashion label.
The Serbian designer has become widely acknowledged for consistently combining the three practices of fashion, architecture and art, but the latter is something that Roksanda impulsively navigates towards as a
