Phoebe English is an award-winning SUSTAINABLE circular fashion studio.
The PHOEBE ENGLISH studio was founded in 2011 and designs clothing with our planetary boundaries in mind.
In the decade since Phoebe established the studio, the brand has developed into an internationally renowned label. The studio is in an ongoing transition towards sustainable circular design within a slow fashion context.
The PHOEBE ENGLISH studio has dual roots in textile craftsmanship and reduced environmental impact: aiming to develop ways of working with design, and its surrounding systems, that align within the realities of our planetary limitations. A personal narrative runs throughout the work within the studio's established aesthetics of both the decorative and the utilitarian.
Phoebe attended Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London for her BA and MA in Fashion Design with Knitwear, completing the acclaimed MA under the tuition of Louise Wilson, where her practice evolved to focus on constructed textiles. Upon graduation she was awarded the L'Oreal Professional Prize.
The PHOEBE ENGLISH studio has shown at London Fashion Week since 2011 and has received the following accolades: The Marie Claire Sustainability Award for Best Sustainable Designer Brand (2022), The Fashion Awards Leader of Change for Environment Honouree at The Fashion Awards (2021), Beazley Design of the Year (Design Museum, 2020), The Fashion Awards Community Honouree for co-founding the Emergency Designer Network (2020).
The studio’s work now sits in the national archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Collection in New York, the V&A fashion collection in London and the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. We have been featured in exhibitions around the world: Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion at The Met, New York; Waste Age: What Can Waste Do? at the Design Museum, London; Homo Faber: Crafting a More Human Future, Venice, curated by Judith Clark. In 2017, the studio's archive was the subject of a day-long live event as part of the V&A Fashion in Motion series.
