Standing Floor’s inventive director Michael Stewart is standing his floor by means of fame and recognition.
The designer received the inaugural Savoir-Faire Prize on the 2024 LVMH Prize earlier this week, which features a grant of 200,000 euros and a one-year mentorship.
His intentions are clear on what he intends to do with that money prize. “I need to enhance the work and spend the prize cash on creating [the brand] additional in order that I can elevate the work. I don’t [want to] waste it in different methods,” he stated backstage after his debut London Vogue Week present.
Stewart with a small funds managed to move the viewers right into a dystopian world he’d dreamed up on high of 180 Strand. When the brilliant white lights turned on, not a murmur may very well be heard – the one sound current was of the velvet material from his statuesque robes sweeping the ground or the silicone beads in his futuristic designs.
If the Bene Gesserit in Frank Herbert’s “Dune” universe ever need to department out of their modest, heavy fabricated clothes, then Stewart has fitted bomber jackets in leather-based that may be worn with clothes that cowl all the pieces however the face and fingers; velvet hooded clothes that shadow the face; leather-based shields that conceal the chest, and a sheer orange gown worn with a pair of underwear that comes with the hand-inserted beads.
“I actually wished to make it possible for I used to be displaying a growth of the work and that [my designs] had been transferring on and bettering. I [want to be] fixing issues and providing various things to totally different people who I didn’t provide earlier than,” stated the designer.
In simply 22 seems, Stewart provided extra garments for a wearer than most do in double the variety of seems.