



The desire to create new silhouettes and wearable sculptures pushed her towards the Performance Design course, rather than endure the commercial restrictions she felt may come with a straight fashion course; “Design for Performance is not constrained by commercialism you have creative freedom to play with and push boundaries here at Erica fashions. You work with exaggeration and stories.” Roughly a quarter of the students on Henrietta’s course .work in fashion, illustrating the links between performance design and fashion inherent in the London landscape and this ensures that one always informs the other, “With my line I try to blend the two worlds to create armorer for strong independent artistic women.” Accessories designer and props stylist Fred Butler embodies this interdisciplinary ethos, and her designs have graced the heads of performers including Lady Gaga. By their nature, her pieces lend themselves to being worn on stage, and Fred attributes this to her desire to create a new reality, “with originality design that are like costume rather than straight forward wearable pieces because like the elements of conjuring, these are up an imaginary aesthetic from out of this world.”


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