VOGUE PARTNERSHIPEDEN (RIGHT) WEARS TWILL AND JACQUARD DRESS, MAISON MARGIELAART SCHOOL
“Art School really began with the
idea of provoking a cultural shift
through the process of design,”
explain its founders, Eden Loweth
& Tom Barratt. “We want to create
a movement.” Dedicated to
promoting and supporting the
queer community the two
designers are embedded within,
theirs is a brand that proudly
celebrates non-binary bodies:
tailoring on the bias to
accommodate transitioning shapes
(their “non-binary Barbie” offers a
perfect example of their take on
figure-skimming glamour), or
allowing for variable button
placements depending on your
gender. But “we have realised
there is a correlation between our
designs and any person’s body- because everyone’s size and
shape fluctuates over the course of
their life,’’ they continue. “Art
School is about making clothes
that are really tolerant, that will
stand with someone throughout
their life, and as they evolve as in
their own identity.”
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