Cary-Williams

Robert (1966). English fashion designer who graduated from the Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design in London. He showed original talent, when still a young man, in the Collection he created for the Ma graduation at Saint Martin’s. It was an eccentric but surprisingly harmonious assemblage of colored leather and khaki fabrics, with spiral zippers around the body. In September 1998, he opened his griffe and launched his first Collection during a collateral event at the London Fashion Week. The following year he was included in the official list of London Fashion Week when he received the British New Generation Award. The prize included a stipend from Mark & Spencer meant to foster young designers. Notwithstanding these expectations, the presentation didn’t meet with any particular success, somewhat curiously in view of the excessive special effects required by the designer: fireworks and smoke from the choreography almost completely obstructed the view. Things went better with in Spring-Summer 2002, when Cary-Williams presented a Collection which renewed the tradition of Victorian-style skirts in crinoline, with references to the fashion of the late 1800s and early 1900s.