Lily Guinness Lily Guinness is an Irish fashion designer based in Berlin. A recent graduate of Dublin’s Grafton Academy Of Fashion Design – where she specialised in tailoring, menswear and lingerie – Lily has spent most of the last year designing stage outfits for musicians and tailoring suits for Irish media personalities. Bold colours, clean lines and unusual fabrics are hallmarks of Lily’s aesthetic, which takes its cues from a combination of Nudie Cohn’s rodeo tailoring as well as from Barbarella-era Paco Rabanne. A dedicated campaigner against fashion waste, Lily goes to great lengths to use repurposed fabric as much as possible as part of her process. Lily’s currently working on a new collection that takes a structured approach to casual wear, which will be created from a palette of dark fabrics with accents of colour. Illustrations of images inspired by Dante’s Inferno – including angels, demons, knives and teeth – will embellish the garments.
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Credits: Photography - Erica Coburn Model - Katie Freeney Styling - Lucy O’Sullivan MUA - Emma Freeney
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