The 28-year-old stylist Lara McGrath reworks cheap, unremarkable pieces of fast fashion into the sort of avant-garde creations that wouldn’t look out of place in a Comme des Garçons or All-In presentation.
There are few places as confronting as a high-street changing room. Those claustrophobic cubicles where fluorescent spotlights, inadequate curtains and the feeling of being ambiently monitored leave a person uniquely vulnerable to their own reflection.
” “I try not to over-intellectualise what I do, because fashion should be fun,” McGrath continues. “But I’d like to think there’s an element of chicness, too, a taste, an essence of elevation. Even if I am wearing shoes as a top, I still make beautiful images. I think it’s that ‘diamond in the rough’ thing. It’s the allure of not knowing what it is you’re looking at.” I spotted McGrath enjoying a cocktail outside Shreeji News not long after this conversation.
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