Leila Tag

Daubing her creations with foundation, blusher, and eyeshadow to create sinister, creepy-cute faces, the recent CSM grad’s designs are like nothing you’ve seen before Take exquisite draping, a dedication to reducing waste, scientific formulation, and the face that haunts your nightmares dredged up from somewhere deep in your subconscious, and also you get Anika Leila. The designer is a recent Central Saint Martins graduate, who showed a set that might have been mistaken for a series of sleek, hyper-feminine red carpet pieces – at first glance a minimum of. A second, closer look revealed humanoid faces straining against the material from inside, very similar to the hand emerging from the TV in Poltergeist, and proved...