Today we introduce to our readers the young, London-based designer and recent graduate from the notorious arts school, Central Saint Martins, Laura Andraschko. Laura, how has your day been so far?

Please tell our readers a bit about yourself and how you first stepped into the world of fashion designing! Were you always set on making this your career?

How has your everyday life changed since graduating from Central Saint Martins and you began focusing on a professional career in fashion design?

Does it feel less restrictive practicing your art outside of a university setting?

Your creations have already been featured on magazines like Wmag where your clothes were styled on The Crown actress, Emma Corrin, as well as METAL  magazine, and King Kong where Kim Petras embodied your clothing. What has been your favourite moment (or moments) of 2022?

Recently, you threw a party in London to launch your SS23 collection. How did it go? And, will you be planning a fashion show to exhibit your designs at some point in the future?

Your collections consist of some of the most stylistically distinctive designs available in fashion right now. Looking through your Spring/Summer 2023 lookbook can transport anyone back to the late 2000s where the punk and scene subcultures were most pervasive amongst alt teenagers. Where were you during the late 2000s? Did these particular scenes express you?

Does nostalgia play a big role in your revitalisation and recontextualisation of these aesthetics through your own fashion designs?

Aside from nostalgia and your own experiences of the 2000s, there has been a huge rise in appreciation of early and late 2000s fashion and media in the 2020s. This has culminated in teenagers of today becoming infatuated with shows like Skins and Gossip Girl, with the former especially exhibiting some of the edgy, party girl aesthetics (through characters like Effy Stonem) which your Spring/Summer 2023 collection seems to embrace in a fun-loving way. Do you believe there is a reason for this cultural shift which has even brought some of these aesthetics into mainstream view?

It is refreshing to see that each generation has seen its own new wave of punk, and you seem to be at the forefront of this decade’s punk revitalisation in fashion. Your Spring/Summer 2023 collection accentuates punk’s core values especially in how your models embody the clothes; the poses are exaggerated yet fitting for the designs, refusing to conform to mainstream ideals of modelling and embracing what may be perceived as non-lady like or trashy, working to free those modelling and those consuming the clothes from patriarchal and heteronormative beauty standards. For instance, one of the models wearing a grey tutu dress, a Royal British jacket style blazer, and black pumps is pictured bent over with her sheer tights on display. Do you view fashion designing as something that should be fun and non-sensical or as more of a devised social and cultural statement?

What is something that you’d like to accomplish before the end of this year and how would you like to move forward with your designs in the near future?