Craig Green remembers being taught to sew by his godfather, an upholsterer, one of the craftspeople the British menswear designer looked to this season for a collection that marks his ten years in business. His godfather had helped Green with his early collections – first presented as part of talent incubator Fashion East – and here worked alongside the designer on a series of sculptures inspired by the human-shaped dummies used for wrestling training.
’We were looking at work that we've done in the past and work that we'd like to do in the future,’ says Green, who is reticent to make too much of the landmark year, though the collection – which muses on the idea of human touch and connection – marked an opportunity ‘to do something a bit different’. Eschewing the runway show and its typical two-seasons-a-year schedule, Green instead chose to create a single collection to span the entire year which will arrive in stores in two drops. (The first arrives in stores this month; the second will be released in around six months’ time.)
