This is one of four features on the Dazed 100 designers who showed their AW16 collections at London Fashion Week. Vote for Claire Barrow in the Dazed 100 here, read features on Molly Goddard and Richard Malone and stay tuned for a piece on Ashley Williams. 

Claire Barrow is bored of people asking her whether she’s an artist or a fashion designer. For the past eight seasons, she’s been disturbing the line between the two occupations, adorning clothes with distinctive, surreal scenes and characters of her own making. In April, she will stage her first solo exhibition at London’s M. Goldstein Gallery, and it was the act of painting on canvas in preparation for the show that got her thinking about her AW16 fashion week presentation, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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