thedesignerist

sartorial + disabled

Feature for the Makers Atelier Magazine

The Makers Atelier is a Brighton brand started in 2014 by Frances Tobin. Frances created an exceptionally coherent and beautifully...

Interview for Viva Brighton magazine

If you ever doubted my love of lobsters, then this feature in Viva magazine will definitively establish that I am indeed lobster crazy...

Disability & I

Like over 80% of disabled people in the uk, I was not born with a disability. I had a motorbike accident in 1995 which resulted in a...

Lobster love

I have a thing for lobsters. I do love eating them but my obsession goes way deeper than mere gluttony. in the 1930s lobsters became a...

On location at the midcentury apartment

I used to not feel particularly at ease in front of the camera, and it used to br a challenge for me to pose. I was always aware of my...

Immigrant

I was born in Switzerland and came to live in London when I was twenty. I have lived in England longer than in Switzerland, my english is...

Before it happened

This was taken in 1994, a few months before I came off my motorbike in London's Kentish Town, when I was 25. Back then I lived in London...

When life gives you lemons

Lately it''s all been about slogan tee shirts. The one i'm wearing is telling the world to make lemonade when life give you lemons, ie to...