Hi! I'm Hannah Lauren Riley.
I am a sustainability-focused
fashion practitioner and designer.
I believe the future of fashion is joyful, collaborative, inclusive & revitalised, for all.
I graduated with a Distinction in the MA Fashion Futures Course at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, in 2024.
I am fascinated by clothing's ability to tell stories and aim to explore how these stories can connect us to our personal fashion practices and the wider story of Fashion to foster sustainable fashion engagement.
My work exudes joy and imagination, while being underpinned by meaningful messages that challenge prevailing paradigms and engage audiences in provocative ways.
I am NZ-born, Australian-raised & currently based in London.
In my practice, I work with young people to interrogate Fashion, exploring alternative and speculative Fashion scenarios and engagement. My designs, whether tangible fashion and textile explorations or playful fashion pedagogies, wish to provoke and inspire the wearer or player, challenging in them pre-conceived beliefs and evoke emotion when worn or played.
I believe in the power of play and education to concurrently aid in transformed post-fashion paradigms and transformed fashion learning experiences.
I graduated with a BA with First-Class Honours, in Fashion and Textiles Design from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), in 2020. I was awarded a sponsorship with Liberty of London for my Honours collection in 2020, was a nominee for the Australian Fashion Design Graduate of the Year Awards (GOYA) in 2021 and was a finalist for the Carla Zampatti Foundation Design Award in 2022.
I am a member of Fashion Act Now, a community of activists with a mission to degrow the fashion system.