’ MA Fashion graduate show saw students subverting symbols of luxury, challenging what the fashion industry deems as luxurious—and what it doesn’t.
Perfect magazine founder, editor, and creative director Katie Grand was charged with picking the winner of the show’s grand prize, the L’Oréal Professionnel Creative Award, handing it to Dhruv Bandil. Boasting sculptural detailing, cutouts, and textiles he developed himself, his collection came in shades of acid green, vibrant magenta, startling turquoise, and deep purple.
“Eventually, when I went back home to Zambia where the soil was so fertile, that’s when I started to grow my own food organically. So doing fashion, it only makes sense to start growing my own fibers the right way, the regenerative way,” she explained.Traiceline Pratt’s work was ode to six women in his life typically excluded from the luxury industry—a mistress, a businesswoman, a single mother, a thief, and a stripper.