“It was about touching – and feeling things again,” the designer tells AnOther in the wake of his incredible show
returned to the runway for the first time in two years. The event was certainly the designer’s most sensory yet: while the audience looked on from benches constructed from water-filled flood tubing, past came a series of incredible colours, shapes and tactile textures which exemplified the designer’s career-long exploration of the space between the spiritual and the practical. It was, Green tells AnOther, about “feeling things again.
This idea of how we experience clothing ran throughout, from ingenious packable pieces, which could be transformed from a bag into a jacket, to the collection’s more abstract sculptural designs, which were inspired by archival imagery of iron maidens and iron lungs – one being a medieval coffin-like torture instrument and the other a life-prolonging, though now antiquated, enveloping medical apparatus.