Accessories are normally very small, so here are some very small Q&As with four of the zaniest accessory designers around.
Helen Robotham, 26, recently won Fashion Fringe’s accessories prize. She’s amazing and makes very scary stuff. That’s a bag up there.
Vice: Hi. Why does your bag look like that?
Helen: It’s from my “They Are What They Aren’t” MA collection and represents the grotesque shape of consumerism in the 21st century. I always try and create new shapes and forms for my bags and I’m obsessed with spheres, which is, I suppose, the ultimate timeless shape.
Simona Kaunaite, 28, is from Lithuania. She sells her ceramic noses at No One.
Vice: Why did you make a nose into a necklace?
Simona: The collection is called The Five Senses – for sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. There is an eye, an ear, a finger, a nose, and some lips. Some people find them a bit ugly and scary.
Gal Stern, 27, runs mad-printed-tights label Dare to Wear.
Vice: Your printed tights are pretty amazing. Why tights?
Gal: You could say tights chose me; at the end of college I was thinking patterns, shapes, colours and no one has really done much with tights before.
Maria Francesca Pepe, 30, is from Italy and her label, MFP, gets loads of press.
Vice: Is this jewelry or a headpiece? It’s pretty weird.
Maria: I call it jewelry-wear. I get the ideas from constantly recording my emotions and images I find, which become these designs.
Photos by Tania Leshkina
Stylist: Mischa Notcutt
Tags: accessories, Gal Stern, Helen Robotham, Maria Francesca Pepe, Simona Kaunaite, things you won't know how to wear
