Many designers make their name chasing the new. But not Walid Damirji. Founder of By Walid, his approach is much more nuanced than that. Like an aesthetic anthropologist, or a steward of sartorial artefacts, he travels the globe, gathering materials of eras gone by. It could be a swatch of 20th Century crochet, or a panel of 19th Century embroidery, or any assortment of antique twills, linens, lace and beyond – items others may cast aside, denouncing them as long past their practical use-by date.
Read the full interview at Liberty London.
