Craig Green

MEET Craig Green, the Central Saint Martins-trained menswear designer you'll soon find featuring on your radar a lot more: he's just been nominated for the British Fashion Awards' Emerging Talent Award Menswear and been named the Centre for Fashion Enterprise's latest designer recruit for its Fashion Venture Programme.
"When I first started at Central Saint Martins on the foundation, I originally wanted to be a painter or sculptor - mainly because I liked to make things. I accidentally ended up going into a fashion textiles pathway for my BA," says Green of his career path.
The rest has fallen very nicely into place - he graduated from the Central Saint Martins MA in 2012, scooping the L'Oréal Professionnel Creative Award as he went, and then went on to showcase at London Fashion Week with Fashion East's MAN initiative for the spring/summer 2013 season.
And those early ambitions of being a painter or sculptor have very much stuck with him and his aesthetic - his is one that combines minimal garments with dramatic sculptural body pieces and angular ornamentations with a pick-it-apart wearability.
The same can't necessarily be said of his first-ever fashion creation.
"It was an awful dress made from cheap white netting and silver duct tape for a charity fashion show."
While his nomination for the British Fashion Awards will propel him into the public fashion domain more, his CFE accolade will enable him to receive complete tailored business support.
"With the CFE's added support I hope to continue to grow my brand," he says.