Accessories are normally very small, so here are some very small Q&As with four of the best 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, nose and some lips. Some people find them a bit ugly and scary.

Maria Francesca Pepe, 30, is from Italy and her label, MFP, gets loads of press.

Vice: Is this jewellery or a headpiece? It’s pretty weird.
Maria: I call it jewellery-wear. I get the ideas from constantly recording my emotions and images I find, which become these designs.

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS: TANIA LESHKINA
STYLIST: MISCHA NOTCUTT