Steven Stokey-Daleywith the brand of the same name S.S. Daleywill be guest designer of Pitti Uomo 105 (9-12 January 2024). The young designer from Liverpool will bring his made in Britain collection to Florence through a fashion show event.
Founded in 2020, SS Daley proposes to revisit the peculiar ideas of British heritage, subverting them in a modern context, starting from the perspective of his working class upbringing. After graduating from the University of Westminster, his menswear collection attracted the attention of prestigious names in the fashion system such as Sarah Mower e Harry Lambert. The latter in fact chooses a series of items for the British pop star’s look Harry Styles in the music video ‘Golden’. Stokey-Daley later expanded her proposals to womenswear and accessories. The designer debuts at London fashion week in September 2021. In 2021 Stokey-Daley receives recognition from the British Fashion Council’s Newgen initiative. A year later she received the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. Later, in December of the same year, he was awarded the Foundation Award at the British Fashion Awards.
“Steven Stokey-Daley transforms the British Upper Class into a queer fashion fantasy,” he says in a statement Francesca Tacconi, special events coordinator of Pitti Immagine -. We like his talent in reinterpreting the archetypes of menswear, the uniforms of the most exclusive colleges of Anglo-Saxon high society, picking up the signals of the time and subverting everything with a subtle irony and extravagance, playfully amplifying the volumes of the garments, playing on the details , working with unexpected fabrics and floral prints.”
“It is an honor for me to have this opportunity, which allows me to bring the manifesto of my modern British storytelling to Pitti Uomo, the epicenter of menswear design,” declares Steven Stokey-Daley.