The Constructivist: menswear designer Craig Green

How one of Britain’s brightest talents is staging a quiet revolution

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Inside a mystery warehouse somewhere in London lives a gigantic blue octopus with bulging black eyes and a snarl of jagged white teeth. It may sound like the result of some Frankenstein-like experiment, but the sea monster is in fact made of tarpaulin and was originally conceived and built by Craig Green and set designer David Curtis-Ring to fill the fish tank-like front window at Dover Street Market’s previous location in Mayfair. In June 2014, the cartoonish kraken made for an unlikely fashion insider, commemorating Green’s SS15 menswear collection at the concept store with huge, flailing tentacles and a menacing glare.

“He surprises us every time with his mad and powerful installations,” says Adrian Joffe, president and chief executive of Comme des Garçons International and Dover Street Market, and a long-time supporter of Green’s work. “Our raison d’être at Dover Street Market was to share our space with designers who have a vision, something to say. Craig falls perfectly into that category.”

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