Fiona Troy Brings Memory, Heritage, and Reinvention to London Fashion Week SS27
At a sold-out runway show at Dartmouth House on September 18, Irish designer Fiona Troy brought a quieter kind of luxury to London Fashion Week. Fiona focused on vintage textiles, forgotten heirlooms, and the stories that fabric can carry.
For Fiona Troy, fabric is never simply fabric.
It has already lived somewhere. It may carry traces of another era, another wardrobe, or another person’s story. Rather than erasing that history, the Irish contemporary womenswear designer Izvaycnndcn it lrhu the clothes.
On September 18, Fiona Troy presented at Dartmouth House in Mayfair as part of the sold-out Fashion Represents and Paris Runway Official showcase during London Fashion Week. Editors and fashion media from across Europe attended, including representatives from Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Grazia, and Glamour.
When the Past Becomes the Collection
At the heart of Fiona Troy’s work is a fascination with nostalgia, forgotten heirlooms, and the quiet beauty of everyday objects.
Vintage and reclaimed textiles are transformed into contemporary womenswear, allowing existing materials to begin another chapter rather than disappear.
This approach feels particularly relevant as fashion continues to question how and how much it produces.
But for Troy, reuse isn’t simply about sustainability. It is about memory.
The imperfections within an older textile aren’t necessarily something to hide. They can become part of what makes a garment impossible to replicate.
Clothing With a Life Before the Runway
Through craftsmanship and thoughtful design, Troy creates a meeting point between Irish heritage and contemporary fashion, preserving elements of the past without allowing them to feel trapped there.
Every reclaimed textile arrives with its own identity. Through the designer’s hand, those histories are reworked into something that can be worn, interpreted, and remembered differently by someone new.
That made Fiona Troy’s London Fashion Week appearance about more than introducing another collection.
In an industry constantly asking what comes next, Fiona Troy offered another possibility: sometimes fashion’s future can be made from something that already has a past.
Credits:
Show: Fashion Represents @fashionrepresents.london
Production & Founder: Fashion Represents @fashionrepresents.london & @gaia-london
Paris Runway Official
Writer/Journalist: Brit Olivia @onceuponatimebrit
PR: Paris Runway Official (PRO) @parisrunwayofficial
PRO Producer: Sangeetha Menon @sangeetha_menon_official
PRO PR Assistant: Gena Aspinall-Martin @thebrandlibrary
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PRO Photographers:
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Designers:
Fiona Troy @fiona_troy_
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Makeup Team:
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@Glow_by_elenadragomir (Head of Hair & Makeup)
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