Grasshopper didn’t feel finished after one season. It felt like I had finally started.

Last winter, Grasshopper was a leap. It was odd, playful and unapologetically us. The response gave me the confidence to trust the way I naturally design: through curation and the tension between things that should not quite belong together.

Volume II returns to that world with more confidence and more restraint.

I am naturally a more-more-more designer, so pulling back was the real challenge. This collection is not quieter for the sake of being safe; it is more considered. Every print and texture has been designed to work as part of a winter wardrobe to be layered, colour blocked, clashed and worn again.

Storybook comes from the thousands of nights I have spent reading to my children. I am still fascinated by the way a child can learn the world from a page. Before they meet an animal, visit a place or understand a feeling, they often encounter it in a story. In a world built to overstimulate us, a still image and a handful of words can hold them completely.

That idea runs through every piece. Rather than repeating one print across an entire range, each garment has its own tale, process and point of view. Together, they form a wardrobe of small worlds that are familiar, a little strange and made to be lived in.