Our Fashion East favourite Grace Wales Bonner will take part in the forward-thinking ‘Transformation Marathon’ this Saturday at the Serpentine Gallery.

We’ve been head over heels for Jamaican-British menswear designer Grace Wales Bonner since she graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014. Swiftly snapped up by Lulu Kennedy’s Fashion East collective, Grace’s thought-provoking and evocative presentations have become the event at LC:M. Her innovative designs – exploring black male history, visual culture and cross-cultural identity – are consistently relevant, awe-inspiring and perhaps most pertinently, urgent in nature. If anyone’s bringing substance to menswear in London, it’s Grace.

This Saturday, Grace’s transcendental talent will come in to play in a performance at Serpentine Gallery’s ‘Transformation Marathon’. The event invites everyone from artists to anthropologists and architects to address cultural, political and physical shifts in a series of talks, installations and performances. Grace’s performance with Moussa Dembele, ‘Everythings For Real’, is named after Grace’s collage-led zine series. The zines, created in collaboration with Ditto Press and art directed by Jamie Reid, present Grace’s mood board collages of found imagery, ephemera, prose and poetry from a variety of historic sources that have inspired the associated collection. Everythings For Real Volume II (pictured above) is a feast for the eyes and if the zines are anything to go by this Saturday’s performance is going to be an unmissable insight into Grace’s mind. See you there!

GRACE WALES BONNER AW15

Photography: Amy Beasley

Words: Laura Isabella