CLAIRE

The second line launch was scheduled for a Friday morning, we'd been planning it for six weeks.

Nina had handled most of the logistics, press invitations, event setup, catering and photography.

All the moving parts that turned a production facility into somewhere journalists actually wanted to spend a morning.

I'd handled the collection itself, final fittings, last adjustments, the particular obsessive checking and rechecking that came with showing work publicly for the first time.

CLAIRE Studio, that was the name we'd landed on four months ago in the design studio on a Tuesday afternoon.

A line that came from the same creative place as CLAIRE but spoke differently, more...