Sleeves Magazine May-June 2017 | Page 39

. WALES BONNER Grace Wales Bonner graduated from Central Saint Martins BA in 2014, winning the L'Oreal Professionnel Talent Award. After her first season with Fashion East, Wales Bonner was asked to present her AW15 collection Ebonics at the V&A's at the prestigious Fashion in Motion programme. Wales Bonner's design idiom explores black male representation and is recognizable through it's opulent use of embroidery, jewellery and hybrid of African craft and couture techniques. Grace assisted at Meadham Kirchhoff in London and Camilla Nickerson in New York before launching her own label. http://www.walesbonner.net/ Source: British Fashion Council Sleeves Magazine