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Taking to its runway was a creative status symbol — some hoodies read “I walk for Art School”, while big, boxy blazers, torn silk slip dresses, inverted lapel leather coats and the odd skin-tight leopard-print strapless mini made up the Art School wardrobe, which packed the rails of Matches Fashion, Dover Street Market and Selfridges.
Learn from the good things, the bad things and make the right choices for me — as opposed to the right choices for a huge amount of people around a buzzy brand.” He says he does not want to return to the industry with a commercial label today, instead wishing to work on “one-off cultural moments”.
After severe bullying he was taken out of school aged 13, raised without access to the internet, and did not return until he enrolled on an art course at Stamford College, where the fashion studios captured his imagination.
Between 2017 and 2021, Art School — a seedling counterculture label with a USP of luxury non-binary fashion — was by some distance the buzziest brand in London.
“We always said if Art School’s here for five years or 50 years, as long as we’ve tried our best and made a mark, that’s enough.”.
