‘Awake in Sleep’ Is the graduate collection by BA Womenswear designer Seli Arku-Korsi. The budding artist-and-designer showcases how art can transcend multiple meanings, and form beautifully whimsical garments from fragmented reality.

Exploring the beauty that can come from pain, Korsi takes his soulful “paintings which focus primarily on beauty and esoteric symbolism” to confront his “experience with the hedonistic helplessness of drug abuse and how it kills both mind and soul”.

Seli’s artistic style developed from a youth spent revelling in Baroque sculptural art and works from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. This launched him into an abyss of emotionally led creativity, allowing for a collection of “soulful” work intended to transport adorners into a dream state.