Since emerging from the University of Westminster in 2016, design degree in hand, Katie Ann McGuigan has kept audiences agog with her high-end, prêt-à-porter pieces.
Having worked placements at McQ in London (where she currently resides) and Marc Jacobs in New York, she scored the Fashion Scout Merit Award for her debut collection, bursting-at-the-seams with eye-popping prints, and showed with Fashion Scout for another two seasons before going independent last September.
Much like Robyn Lynch’s channeling of football fans for her AW19 looks (a fellow London-based Irish designer, University of Westminster graduate and Hemlines alumna), McGuigan’s SS19 collection – presented to mass acclaim in the London Film Museum – celebrated the unity of sports culture, consulting black and white shots of spectators and garnering influence from their wardrobe choices.
AW19 will showcase this London Fashion Week in the British Fashion Council’s DiscoveryLAB on Saturday 16th, serving up an abundance of colour, leather and print with both masculine and feminine elements coming to the fore.
Just when you think her industry cred can’t climb any higher.
