Craig Green, avant-garde designer

Craig was born and raised in north London in a simple family that had nothing to do with the fashion world. His mother is a nurse and his father is a plumber. Seven years ago, Green went to preparatory courses at Central Saint Martins, and then, by chance, chose a fashion course. At first, the designer tried to create collections of women's clothing, but soon he realized that this was not his profile at all, and switched to creating a men's line. "All women's clothes created by me, let's say, were not very suitable for women. My hands are not for creating beautiful things, I am too clumsy," he jokes.

When creating his graduation collection, he was inspired by images from the sixties film "The Curse of the Village of Midwich", where children-killers keep in fear the small town in which they live. The collection turned out to be futuristic - minimalist tops and trousers with prints, geometric shapes hanging from the back, and headdresses that look like a birdhouse. It also clearly traces the influence of religion - for example, some tops resemble church robes. “I was obsessed with creating clothes as a uniform,” says the designer. “Under the influence of the film and the book, I came up with minimalistic and religious images.”

Craig is now twenty-five years old, and he has already managed to work with the Swiss brand Bally. The company chose a designer among CSM graduates and invited him to work on creating a collection of men's shoes. Green also made a print for the English brand Topman, changed Adidas sneakers from the line created by David Beckham, and won the New Era streetwear brand competition, in which young designers created original caps.

In the lookbook of his latest collection of the spring-summer 2013 season, models stand in wooden frames or on small carts with a rack that resembles an dropper, and gloomy creatures hang next to it in the air. Appropriate clothing. And the faces of the models are covered with masks of wooden sticks hanging from the headdress. "I am going to develop sales and the company itself in the coming year. I also hope that I will be able to work with a couple of brands of accessories," the designer says about his plans for 2013.