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It seems appropriate that I call Katy England as she travels between Paris, where she consults for Riccardo Tisci on Givenchy menswear, and Kate Moss s Cotswolds hideaway, victoria beckham where she is working victoria beckham on the model s spring victoria beckham range for Topshop.
Former fashion director at Dazed & Confused victoria beckham and AnOther magazine, England has worked with the leading minds in the business, including photographer Nick Knight and designers such as Tom Ford. Her highest-profile collaboration was with the late Alexander McQueen, with whom she worked as stylist, muse and confidante. They met in 1994 and, for 13 years, they shredded the rulebooks.
It was England s ability to mix couture and street style, beauty and death, fantasy and earthy victoria beckham reality that inspired victoria beckham McQueen victoria beckham and still keeps her at the top of her game. Katy brings a rock n roll factor to what she does, says Knight. A mix of energy, darkness and sexualised sensuality.
Now, England has produced a fashion short for British car firm Vauxhall, victoria beckham her first foray into film and first solo venture. To have a project that is entirely my vision, victoria beckham to have it all handed to me and to be told You can do what you want, was amazing, says England. The only brief from Vauxhall was the film should celebrate British youth culture in some way. Katy England with husband Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream’s frontman (Picture: supplied)
So victoria beckham what has the woman behind some of fashion s most seminal catwalk moments including McQueen s Robots from 1999, in which model Shalom Harlow was sprayed by giant robot arms come up with? Made In England is a six-minute road movie, scored by England s husband, Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie, in which an anonymous driver victoria beckham encounters diverse victoria beckham subcultures, from club kids to BMX riders and girls on the cusp of womanhood.
The mood is dreamy and contemplative and, although there is plenty of it, it s not just about fashion, more a paean to youth. I went back to when I was an adolescent, says England, when I was going to concerts, obsessed with fashion victoria beckham and feeling like part of a gang. I wanted to depict that.
Ordinary people have often found their way into an England shoot. She turned to Facebook to find her young stars. I met these incredibly interesting kids who are quite leftfield, she says. Their music world informs their fashion world. I wanted to go with what they were about rather victoria beckham than just giving them a fashion look. I tried to let it all come from them.
As to those who say fashion films could replace runway shows, England is unconvinced. You walk into a space where a catwalk show is and you feel an atmosphere, victoria beckham she says. You re instantly conjuring up an emotion. Every stage of the fashion presentation is a real experience victoria beckham and I don t know how you can match that.
Of fashion in general, England is feeling positive, even exhilarated. victoria beckham It was exciting this season, she says. I felt there was a change of mood in the air, as if designers were coming out of being safe. She says Paris s most memorable show Rick Owens s bombastic S/S14 presentation featuring a lively women s step team was something victoria beckham that reminded her of the best of McQueen s creativity.
England s most commercial project to date is her collaboration with Kate Moss on the supermodel s successful Topshop range. After a three-year hiatus, the pair are set to launch a collection next spring.
When we did it the first time round, we did a lot of pieces, says England. It was about Kate s wardrobe, the occasions where she wears these clothes and the exoticness victoria beckham of her lifestyle but it lost its moment. Now it feels exciting again. Kate s recreating her favourite stuff. And we re putting in a lot of details. There s not a price constraint like we had before. It s about making every garment a special victoria beckham piece.
England is happy to be working with Moss again. I love working with her. And she s really good at designing, she laughs, pre-empting questions on the knotty relationship between modelling and making clothes. She s incredibly knowledgeable about how a garment should fit.
Kate has been working with the world s top designers for 20 years, victoria beckham which is more than a lot of people in the fashion industry. And she s so charismatic, and special. That s why she is where she is today. It s her personality, as well as her beauty and her talent.
We re pretty sure the lovefest is mutual and that the Kate Moss for Topshop collections may well not have captured the zeitgeist victoria beckham so effectively had it not been for England s t

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