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Michelle Obama in Duro Olowu
Duro Olowu, Stella McCartney, Jasper Conran, Zandra Rhodes, Alexander McQueen are all seemingly disparate designers. Their status alone is not what unites them, but the shared student experience of rifling through west London’s Goldhawk Road textile shops to find the right fabric.
“Every single student from the London College of Fashion comes to Goldhawk Road. In February and March we have students doing stop overs from Europe, some spend an entire week in March swatching before they buy,” says Aniza Meghani from Classic Textiles, one of the family-run textiles stores.
Yet this unofficial initiation into fashion is in danger of being relegated to the history books. Despite owning freehold leases for their land, these Victorian-era shops on 30-52 Goldhawk Road are in a fight to exist. Hammersmith and Fulham council along with a developer, Orion Shepherds Bush Ltd, want to put 212 luxury flats in…
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