Connolly x Her.o

A Letter From Isabel

Six months ago, I saw a photograph of a coat that Lulu Guinness had ordered – a beautiful embroidered work of art, and she told me that it had been made by two designers called Her.o in Pimlico. When I went online, I was so excited as they specialise in handcrafted, sustainable knitwear, using repurposed and recycled fabrics, sustainable yarns and leather dedicated to slow fashion but not like anything you have ever seen. We went to visit the couple, Alice Smith and Lee Farmer, in their studio, and it was one of my most memorable moments of being in retail; they are artists of knit, in the way of Azzedine Alaia.