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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

Roksanda channels sculptor Phyllida Barlow at London fashion week show

Two models backstage at Roksanda’s London fashion week show
Two models backstage at Roksanda’s London fashion week show. Photograph: WWD/Getty Images

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? Only at London fashion week.

All four women were muses for designers on the third day of catwalks. 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.

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