A glance at the current news cycle would have almost anyone convinced we’re living in an upside-down world and it’s not London-based designer Torishéju Dumi who would say otherwise.

“It’s quite uncanny right now, things happen and you have to tilt your head a bit and think, ‘oh, OK,’ and that’s what I wanted these clothes to represent,” she said.

Silhouettes had a passing resemblance to staples from school uniforms, officewear and workwear, epitomizing what Dumi said was the “tension between structure and disorder, memory and distortion.”

There was the blazer-and-jeans look zhuzhed up by whorls of fabric at the shoulders and seams down the legs, worn by Naomi Campbell, who opened Dumi’s show once more; short pleated skirts that slipped to the knee to reveal a contrasting waistband that

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