What inspired Roy Luo’s approach to fashion design?

Roy Luo views design as a tool to challenge gendered bodies and material culture. Their work explores the space between art objects and wearable garments, drawing on experience in technical design, patternmaking, material exploration, and commercial knitwear design.

How would you describe Roy Luo’s design style or philosophy?

Roy Luo’s work is situated within the queer canon and explores garments at the threshold between art objects and wearables. Their practice combines technical design, patternmaking, knitwear, and material experimentation.

What can people expect from the SS27 collection?

You can expect a collection that explores play, labour, regrowth, and material experimentation. Toy Garden uses deadstock textiles from previous collections and features pieces designed to be both intimate and interchangeable.

What inspired the Toy Garden collection?

Toy Garden is inspired by the relationship between play and labour. Roy Luo approaches the creative process as a garden where ideas are nurtured, using limitations and experimentation as a way for new designs to grow.

How does sustainability influence the Toy Garden collection?

Regrowth is explored through the use of deadstock textiles from previous collections, giving existing materials a new role within Toy Garden. This approach becomes part of the collection’s broader exploration of play, limitation, and renewal.