As she takes a break from her mainline collection, enjoy these examples of her wild and freewheeling work.
Louise Gray attending the 2012 British Fashion Awards 2012 at The Savoy Hotel in London.
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In place of designing for her eponymous label, Gray says she'll be, "working on design and consultancy projects for major brands, as well as collaborating with my friends in London."
Even amid London's bold crop of young, avant garde designers, Gray's shows always stood out for their sense of near-anarchic fun, a consistent mish-mash of clever tailoring, beautiful prints and then usually a bunch of random shit resembling the detritus of a Supermarket Sweep cart dash — it all (mostly) made sense even though it probably shouldn't. Here's some of the many things London's runways will probably be missing these next two seasons:
Hand-drawn crown eyebrows and exclamation mark earrings.
From spring/summer 2013.
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This hair-raising hairstyle.
From fall/winter 2012.
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