Urban Reliquary

The brief: To create an editorial exploring heritage, identity and beauty through a contemporary, multicultural lens.

The challenge: To bring together diverse cultural references and traditions with sensitivity, allowing each to retain its own voice within one cohesive story.

The concept: An urban reliquary - a collection of objects, rituals, textures and traditions that carry memory, meaning and identity across generations.

The creative direction: Set within the historic Woolwich Garrison, a place with its own extraordinary layers of history, we brought together fashion, floristry, mehendi and jewellery to create something rich, cinematic and contemporary - allowing the history of the setting and the stories within the styling to sit alongside one another.