Barlow’s uncompromising art was the inspiration at Roksanda, where vast ballgowns in bright felt wobbled perilously on the 16th floor of an empty brutalist office block, channeling the audacious spirit of Barlow’s teetering towers of fabric, rope, chicken wire or papier-mache.
“But for the size of my brand, it still makes sense for me to show in London.” She noted that fewer international models had travelled to London this season, making casting problematic for those still on the schedule.
“When you look at what they wore, it feels as if the style of the author and the costume designer both filter into what Hedren wears on screen,” Wickstead said before her show.
Where can you find the author Daphne du Maurier and the sculptor Phyllida Barlow, along with the actor Tippi Hedren and the costume designer Edith Head?
Barlow made art out of old cardboard boxes and waste fabric, revisiting memories of growing up in the bomb-damaged East End of London.
