Lilly Platt-Hepworth

I like to keep up the habit of creating moodboards, even when I don't have a project or the time to develop my own designs. It helps keep my brain inspired and tuned in to what's happening in the market. I try to keep them not too trend-focused, though, and make sure to include plenty of art references and even vintage/older fashion references that correlate to what I'm seeing on runways and in shops. I think it helps to maintain a fresh perspective and avoid straight-up recreating those...

It’s a wild time to be alive for so many different reasons, depending on where or who you are in the world. But I think the one globally shared uncertainty at the moment is AI. Everyone seems to have some level of fear about its rapid rise, and no one really seems to know what to do or how our future looks. Myself included (obviously). But I do have my own theories (mostly unfounded and purely based on wishful thinking but here they are)... Throughout history, periods of great change have...

The past year has been so full of change and it's only now that I am finally feeling (somewhat) at home half way across the globe in LA a whole year or so later that it's occurred to me that I have all these great photos sitting on my computer of the solo show I did in July 2024 that never got shared. Honestly, this was one of the best nights of my life. It was a big project, a tonne of work and hugely gratifying. I had friends and family pull together to make the opening night run smoothly...