“The idea of trends has always been alien to me,” the designer Simone Rocha said before her London fashion week show on Saturday.
Her collection will go on sale in the autumn – so Dublin-born Rocha stuffed the skirts of puffball dresses with raffia to represent Lughnasadh, the Irish harvest festival that marks the beginning of that season. Other designers might have plumped for more straightforward leaf prints or conker colours, but Rocha makes clothes that tell romantic Irish stories while looking bracingly modern, which is why her label is worn by offbeat style icons from Billie Eilish to FKA twigs.
