Wild, free, powerful and fiercely independent women are the inspiration behind Lucy Mae Golding’s graduate collection Shadow Clan. Lightweight, delicate and mostly sheer fabrics that show only subtle and seductive hints of the female form and the use of belts and straps toy with the idea of a wild silhouette being restrained by force. Drawing on her grandmother’s Romany gypsy heritage, Shadow Clan celebrates the women who have resisted the oppression throughout time, the femme fatales and the significant women who stuck two fingers up to it all, rather than bow down and conform to social norms and expectations.

Golding’s use of fabrics and silhouettes owes much to her placement experience with bridal designer Kula Tsurdiu, in Rhodes, Greece as well as experience working on live briefs for names such as Vivienne Westwood and Amanda Wakeley.