Cooperative Designs

This is the ominous door to our studio…

Dorothee and I rocking our Cooperative Designs skirts, from Spring/Summer 2011 and Spring/Summer 2009.

Dorothee's summer clogs which she wears in the studio. Our space is like a greenhouse, boiling in the summer and freezing in the winter, so it's important to have shoe opinions handy!

Part of the wall in our office. The pictures at the top are from our fist on-schedule presentation last February 2010. We asked our friends and colleagues to take portraits of themselves wearing the collection. On the far left is Susie Bubble, and in the middle we have model Iekeliene Strange. The woman at the bottom with her hair over her face is Gillian Wilkins, a stylist working for Vogue at the time. Finally, the tumble of girls in the centre was our team of interns, photographed in my house by Ben Rayner.

The organised chaos is our studio. It's very difficult to make knitting machines and yarns look tidy.

We collaborated with Brompton Bicyles in September 2010 to create this one-off bike. It has matching handlebars with tassels, obvs.

Our Angles of the North. We made these as press gifts for last Fashion Week.

Every season we recall all the "wastage" from our factories – i.e. the knit pieces they made whilst perfecting the final knits. We cut them up and turn them into limited edition t-shits.

A board from our Spring/Summer 2011 presentation at The Groucho Club. We turned the event into a 1920s Indian/Hollywood film set. The models were all characters in the film, and the guests were able to watch as each model was shot by our photographer Amy Gwatkin for our look book. These Polaroids were taken by Amy during the event and posted onto the board so guests who had only just arrived could catch up on the action.

This is a shoe we made in collaboration with Flip Flop. We commissioned a carpenter to slice up the foam shoes into thick wedges, which he then cut into shape and combined with a Perspex slice, they have knitted straps.