Preen by Thornton Bregazzi

A number of London-based designers run small yet thriving private client operations, alongside wholesale and retail. It’s hard work — but the pay-offs make it worth the effort.

Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi delivered an assured range of floaty, lingerie-style dresses, but it was a bit out of sync with the times.

The designers were inspired by the 1990s London art scene and the suffragette movement — apt, but the latter reference came across too literally at times.

Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi fused punk and pagan as they purloined the cultural history of the United Kingdom beyond London.