When did you start liking fashion? Well how I define fashion is: a developed aesthetic which determines your unique sense of stlye created from a particular way of living. As such how any individual developed their particular aesthetic, one which informs both their unique sense of style and their particular values of personhood, might be thought of as their ‘fashion history’, this is mine: My earliest introduction to my aesthetic, which informs my work as a fashion designer, was through the Zen aesthetic of Wabi Sabi, which includes asymmetry, simplicity, austerity, modesty, the poverty of means and materials which all add up to the production of objects that remind us of our own transience. It’s rather at odds with the traditional western aesthetic of essentialism: that ideal of perfection which ignores the fleeting in favour of the permanent, which values the precious, the exclusivity of gold, diamond and fur lined adornment. That introduction to Wabi Sabi, early on, w