Richard Malone is fashion’s one to watch

Carolyn Moore joins Richard Malone in his studio, as one of the country’s most talked about designers prepares to showcase his collection at London Fashion Week

FASHION is a fickle industry, and these days, the old adage that a designer is only as good as their last collection increasingly rings true. But for a recent graduate about to show his sixth collection, Wexford designer Richard Malone seems oddly impervious to the frenetic pace of the industry he entered just three years ago.

When we meet at a bustling creative hub on the edge of Hackney Downs, he is three weeks from showing his spring/summer ’18 collection, but displays none of the signs of stress you might reasonably expect someone in his position to be feeling.