Dilara Findikoglu isn't angry. Yes, her clothes are known for a fierce strength, and her models stare down some showgoers from the runway or coolly ignore others, but Findikoglu herself is centred, focused – feeling good. “I feel amazing,” she is saying from London, with a genuine, palpable zeal. In the pandemic – during which the designer hit pause on shows of her self-titled label, started in 2015 – she saw her experience as a keenly replenishing period, all negatives aside. “That time made us all go back into ourselves and our minds that I feel like I've found so much stuff in there. Now I feel very connected with the creative little part of my body and soul.”
Findikoglu's transcendent calm is at odds with the weighty subject matter that
