Conner Ives is someone who has had many home runs in his short career as a designer. After moving to London from Bedford, New York, he took on graduating from Central Saint Martins and putting all of his effort into building a fashion label that he has envisioned since he was seven years old.

Since creating his eponymous label, he has achieved it all - dressing Adwoa Aboah for the Met Gala whilst being in his first year of university, attracting the attention of Rihanna and creating multiple custom looks for her [as well as working for her own label, Fenty], and later having his actual runway designs displayed within the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition - all whilst having an ethos of spotlighting and protecting the communities he cherishes, an example seen at the end of his AW25 show when he took his bow wearing a 'Protect The Dolls' t-shirt, advocating for the protection of trans people's rights - a cause that took culture by storm, raising over £900,000 thus far.

Coming into the Fashion Forensics hot seat, the American designer talks about breaking the Internet with his 'Protect The Dolls' t-shirt, his first visual memories of wanting to be one with fashion, and how the support of his community is the reason for his success.

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Standing Ground's Michael Stewart spent nearly 5 years trying to show people his craftsmanship talents before being given the stage to do so.

Known for his savoir-faire, his couture adjacent techniques in his work have propelled him to become one of the most exciting and special talents in the industry, however, this did not happen in peace. After spending almost 5 years gathering interest, the Irish-born designer made his debut under Lulu Kennedy's London-based talent incubator Fashion East and since then Stewart has built a world, full of sculptural perfectionism in everything he shows.

Coming onto Fashion Forensics, he talks at length about his fascination with the celestial, outer-worldly folklore that informs us of our past and the interaction between Earth and the Cosmos, and how all of those elements have brought him to create a design world that feels unique.

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When he first founded fashion retail space Machine-A in London, Stavros Karelis gave small and independent artists and designers a stage to express themselves upon.

Quickly, the conceptual boutique became more than just retail, but a cultural hub frequented by artists and creatives like Scissor Sisters, Lady Gaga, Anna Trevelyan, Nicola Formichetti and more. Since its inception in 2013, Karelis has turned it into a global experimental space where young and exciting designers sit firmly alongside established brands, launching the careers of many of the industry's greats through giving them creative freedom in how their designs interact.

Coming into the Fashion Forensics hot seat, he talks about his early British influences - from the cult classic Trainspotting all throughout The Prodigy, and how it all led him to pursue his ultimate goal of moving two steps ahead of the industry, and experiment.

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Designer and Creative Director Sandra Choi has devoted her life into building a global shoe empire, starting out by learning the craft in her uncle Jimmy Choo's London workshop. Since then, 29 years later, she is still the core nucleus driving forward one of the biggest fashion brands in the world.

Coming onto Fashion Forensics, Choi recalls the memories that defined her life - from accepting Princess Diana's request to create custom pairs of shoes to match her dress, through kitting out Carrie Bradshaw's shoe closet, moments before uttering the iconic "I Lost My Choo!" line, all through collaborating with fashion visionaries like Virgil Abloh, Rihanna and Beyoncé, her sharp focus has led her to become one of the leaders in the fashion industry, championing constant evolution.

As she sits in the hot seat this week, Choi looks back on 30 years of designing shoes, and the decision behind bringing some of our most beloved icons back for their second act.

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Being raised by multiple generations of strong, resilient women, model and activist Cora Corré has carried the legacy of her grandmother - the ultimate punk disruptor and designer Vivienne Westwood - forward by making fashion think about what matters most.

Expanding the humanitarian work of The Vivienne Foundation into further developing projects and raising funds for humanitarian crisis response funds, Corré has taken Westwood's all-important message of utilising your own platform to speak up about what matters most, and brought it into every part of her life.

Coming on Fashion Forensics, she shares about her childhood filled with lust for exploration - from going to her very first protest at the age of four, all the way to showcasing projects about the Sex Pistols at school as her own form of defying the educational norms.

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What is it like to be an independent brand in fashion in 2025? For Paris-based Zomer, it is stability - inside and out.

After starting their brand in 2023, Designer Danial Aitouganov and Dazed Magazine Fashion Director Imruh Asha have achieved many accolades that have propelled them into entering some of the most sought-after spaces in the industry such as becoming LVMH Prize finalists in this year's edition, as well as a prime spot on the official Paris Fashion Week schedule.

Coming on Fashion Forensics, the design duo dive deeper into their references and history - Danial’s time as a designer at Burberry, Chloe and Louis Vuitton, and Imruh’s illustrious storytelling across some of the world’s best editorials, and how their child-like curiosity continues to be stronger than ever.

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Fashion communications and PR specialist Lucien Pagès needs no introduction in the world of fashion and design. Starting out as an intern for Gianfranco Ferré during his tenure as the Creative Director at Christian Dior, Pagès went on to create a PR empire with the launch of his own agency in 2006 - Lucien Pagès Communication.

Since then, he has looked after the vision and expression of the greatest fashion designers and brands of our time - Schiaparelli, Saint Laurent, Emilio Pucci, Jacquemus, JW Anderson, as well as discovering and supporting some of the most exciting young talent like Dilara Findikoglu, Duran Lantink and more.

Coming on Fashion Forensics, Pagès shares the building blocks of his vision identity - from watching Joanna Lumley play Patsy in the iconic British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, all through designing the very last capsule collection for the greatest fashion incubator Colette before it shut its doors, he relays that he never had a plan, but he had a vision for his life.

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Born in Sheffield, artist Corbin Shaw has always looked back onto the everyday British way of life for inspiration.

Raised in the digital era of Tumblr, the Internet became an escapism for him, which later transpired as one of the main influences in him pursuing art and performance at Central Saint Martins. This path later led him to create contemporary work about the modern notions of masculinity, class and adolescence with some of the most established artists, photographers and editors like Alasdair McLellan, Katie Grand and John Joseph Holt.

Coming onto Fashion Forensics, Shaw is able to reflects back on his childhood influences like Cara Delevingne, memorable movies like Disney's 1941 make of Dumbo, and his current inspirations like Nadia Lee Cohen's 'Women", envisioning what his future holds in the performance and fashion space.

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