“It was literally right there,” says Carl Haley, eldest of the three West Dulwich brothers who have ripped through the fashion scene like a heel-snapping hurricane. He’s sitting with his siblings in their north London studio recalling their biggest project to date — the musical curation of the 2023 LuisaViaRoma catwalk show inside Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia.
“The runway was right alongside the Michelangelo sculpture. They’d got the biggest models from all over the world to walk the runway, we were at one end on a big platform overlooking the sculpture, and then on the other end was Andrea Bocelli singing.” He laughs at the sheer madness of it. “The entire time you’re doing it from third person, looking down thinking, ‘This isn’t happening.’”
