Colville ‘There’s been a seismic shift in fashion’
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From London to Lombardy, luxurious label Colville finds inspiration in collaboration and creativity
What happens when your two-year-old brand is on a roll and Covid-19 strikes? Not only that, but one of the co-founders is in Milan, the centre of the pandemic in Europe, the other is soon to be told to “stay at home” in London, and your factories in Italy halt production? If you’re Lucinda Chambers and Molly Molloy of the luxury fashion brand Colville, you keep calm, pause for thought and pivot.
In what has become the norm for interviews of late, this one was thrown out of context immediately after it was conducted in Colville’s HQ in Milan one sunny Sunday morning at the tail end of fashion week in February. It was mere hours before the gravitas of the pandemic that would soon paralyse the world sunk in, and towns around us in Lombardy started to lock down. Continue reading...