Simone Rocha

And it's where I learned, you know, things from screen printing to hand crocheting and, you know, getting to go to shows and the absolute electricity of that and bringing all these people together and having the opportunity to say something and share something.

So it was just like...

Like, I can't even pinpoint when I knew.

Like, it wasn't even a light bulb moment.

It was just kind of, you know, how we were kind of raised, actually.

No, the opposite.

Yeah, I love being in the studio and I didn't want to be a fashion designer.

I thought it would be a real cliche.

It's funny because I've been thinking about men's a lot and the fact that like it's a very different environment and it's a different energy and I'm really enjoying it.

But I was thinking like I went to school with loads and loads of boys.

Like I went to school with like 13 boys and myself and two other girls.

So I almost feel like I'm kind of back in school and back in Dublin and kind of back around like my dad's studio a little bit.

And he used to show men's in Paris separately.

And I remember that too.

I remember, I just have a really strong memory of them all looking like cowboys.

So yeah, like little memories throughout, but not like one like light bulb moment.

That is true.

So I have an archive of all...

everything that I've done but I have also inherited some of his archive and I even work with one of my pattern cutters used to be one of his pattern cutters who has known me since I was probably five years old so there are some pieces in the men's that we would look at the archive draft the blocks redraft them etc and you know change things here and there etc but

But yeah, it's something that I feel very fortunate to have as something that feels very rooted and quite grounded.