Say hello to Helen Lawrence, 27-year-old East Londoner and knitwear virtuoso whose eponymous line is now sold exclusively at Opening Ceremony! In honor of her gorgeous collection arriving at our new OPENING CEREMONY SHOREDITCH location, we asked Helen to take us along for a typical day in Bermondsey.
6:30 AM: Most mornings you'll find me cycling down to the gym for an early spin class. I love a quick spin first thing—it's the only thing that really wakes me up! Afterward, I grab a quick coffee from Climpson & Sons on Broadway Market, and then cycle up to the studio in Stoke Newington.
8:30 AM: I arrive at the studio, grab a quick bite from the Turkish shop next door, plan the jobs for the day, and catch up on emails.
10:00 AM: My amazing team arrives, and we go through the jobs for the day. I've been doing a lot of work in the print room recently, so once everyone is working, I cycle down to Bermondsey to heat press the hand embroideries for the Fall/Winter 2014 production.
1:30 PM: I cycle back up to the studio. The guys are on their lunch breaks. If I haven't too many emails, I usually join them. We have a really great yard, and as the weather has been so amazing recently, I try to catch a few rays whilst chomping on something delicious from Tatreez. It's a Palestinian cafe down the road—they serve a gorgeous flatbread dish called Mana'eesh.
2:00 PM: Back to work! After lunch I usually try to have a quick meeting with Kate from Kult Domini, on our Spring/Summer 2015 show shoes. We work in the same studio. It's great fun! I'm currently developing the new collection.
6:30 PM: We go through the work we've done that day, and make a brief plan of what we'll work on tomorrow. We have a quick tidy-up, then the guys leave at 7 PM. I stay a bit later to catch up on a few jobs.
8:00 PM: Friends, Luke Brooks and Beth Postle have a pop-up shop this week in Hackney Central called Trees & Faces. I popped in this evening. They dressed me up! Paid off... I bought the hand-painted jogging bottoms by Luke! Love them.
9:30 PM: I get home, grab some dinner, and catch up on EastEnders. I live for EastEnders, how embarrassing!
10:00 PM: Go through the last of the emails, finish a little bit of hand embroidery, and then bed.
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Designer Helen Lawrence at Trees & Faces, her friend's pop-up shop in Hackney Central, London. And yes, in case you were wondering, she bought the hand-painted joggers!
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Many of the fabrics in Helen's own collections are hand-embroidered.![]()
Here, a thick, wooly felt
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After they've been embroidered, garments get packed up to be sent to the print room, where they're heat-pressed by Helen.
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6:30 AM: Most mornings you'll find me cycling down to the gym for an early spin class. I love a quick spin first thing—it's the only thing that really wakes me up! Afterward, I grab a quick coffee from Climpson & Sons on Broadway Market, and then cycle up to the studio in Stoke Newington.
8:30 AM: I arrive at the studio, grab a quick bite from the Turkish shop next door, plan the jobs for the day, and catch up on emails.
10:00 AM: My amazing team arrives, and we go through the jobs for the day. I've been doing a lot of work in the print room recently, so once everyone is working, I cycle down to Bermondsey to heat press the hand embroideries for the Fall/Winter 2014 production.
1:30 PM: I cycle back up to the studio. The guys are on their lunch breaks. If I haven't too many emails, I usually join them. We have a really great yard, and as the weather has been so amazing recently, I try to catch a few rays whilst chomping on something delicious from Tatreez. It's a Palestinian cafe down the road—they serve a gorgeous flatbread dish called Mana'eesh.
2:00 PM: Back to work! After lunch I usually try to have a quick meeting with Kate from Kult Domini, on our Spring/Summer 2015 show shoes. We work in the same studio. It's great fun! I'm currently developing the new collection.
6:30 PM: We go through the work we've done that day, and make a brief plan of what we'll work on tomorrow. We have a quick tidy-up, then the guys leave at 7 PM. I stay a bit later to catch up on a few jobs.
8:00 PM: Friends, Luke Brooks and Beth Postle have a pop-up shop this week in Hackney Central called Trees & Faces. I popped in this evening. They dressed me up! Paid off... I bought the hand-painted jogging bottoms by Luke! Love them.
9:30 PM: I get home, grab some dinner, and catch up on EastEnders. I live for EastEnders, how embarrassing!
10:00 PM: Go through the last of the emails, finish a little bit of hand embroidery, and then bed.
Designer Helen Lawrence at Trees & Faces, her friend's pop-up shop in Hackney Central, London. And yes, in case you were wondering, she bought the hand-painted joggers!
Many of the fabrics in Helen's own collections are hand-embroidered.
Here, a thick, wooly felt
After they've been embroidered, garments get packed up to be sent to the print room, where they're heat-pressed by Helen.
