Independent designers fashion

From Parnell Mooney's Raver Boys to Bianca Saunders 'Superimposed' menswear, here's what we're loving at London Fashion Week AW21.

Even with strained budgets, independent designers are finding creative ways to engage their communities and donate funds to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

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LAFORMELA was founded in 2010 as a Czech and Slovak independent fashion brand. The designers' project grew to a renowned brand, that offers unique ready-to-wear clothing and accessories. Aesthetics of the main designers, Antonin Soukup and Miroslava Kohutiarova, is the play of bold colors and graphic work with garments. LAFORMELA's urban style draws from subcultures of 90s and 80s and outdoor. “We wish to bring the remembrance and the sense of freedom to our customers.”

Seoul and London based independent fashion designer brand Gyouree Kim creates intricately layered womenswear and accessories that blends historical and contemporary elements. The creative process involves recycling off-cut and dead-stock fabrics to create one-of-a-kind corsetry and semi couture ready-to-wear.

Playing with the hues of contrast, the timeless and classic painting was incorporated into fashion allowing designs to become walking canvases.