“This season explores the tension between observer and observed,” wrote designers Laura and Deanna Fanning in their AW26 show notes. “What does it mean to see and to be seen? This question lies at the heart of womanhood.” Elsewhere, the pair also revealed that this season was inspired by Fitcher’s Bird, the forty-sixth tale from the Brothers Grimm, a 1992 photo essay of the same name by Cindy Sherman, and a group of birdwatchers they saw one chilly morning in Wood Green.
Photography Jamie-Maree Shipton