Gradually, the designers explained afterwards, their this-season character found his inner sunshine, rejected his initial EMO identity, and ascribed to a cult of self-improvement.
Ben Cottrell and Matthew Dainty of Cottweiler went for a therapy retreat in Leura – a hippy-dippy, tea-room heavy township in the Blue Mountains of Australia – to seek inspiration for a collection that started somberly and became funnier and funnier.