For me, fashion is about storytelling. It’s a world usually constructed with textures, colour, beauty, people and objects. There’s a kind of magic in that space, where the world is often presented transformed and idyllic. This project started with a simple question: what happens when you treat the banal object with the same attention as an iconic designer accessory?

Humour and surrealism are devices I use to challenge the polished perfection we’re often sold in fashion images. But not everything needs to be perfect to be desirable. A misshapen tomato or a wayward tangerine can feel just as powerful as a couture object. That friction, between high and low, the ordinary and absurd, is where my work lives.

 I am drawn to things that feel a bit wrong, a bit strange. That strangeness can be freeing, it lets you be yourself without trying to fit in.

In the Garden of Curious Things, everything has potential. It’s a space for play, for possibility and for making icons out of the everyday.