Robert Cary-Williams is an avant-garde British

fashion design Fashion design is the Art (skill), art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its Fashion accessory, accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and plac ...

er. Robert Cary-Williams studied fashion design at

Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins is a public university, public tertiary education, tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and pos ...

, and set up his own-name label in 1998. In 1999, he won the

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's New Generation Award.Robert Cary-Williams' Fashion In Motion
at the Victoria & Albert Museum, September 2001. Accessed 11/3/2009 His clothes have been described as experimental, severe, "yet surprisingly wearable." In 2001 he was invited to present designs from his Spring/Summer 2002 collection at the

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for their regular "Fashion In Motion" live shows. This event, held several times a year since 1999, showcases the work of leading current fashion designers. For his presentation at the Museum, Cary-Williams showed historically inspired garments made from antique fabrics combined with leather and rusted metal.

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