Mural for Tolu Coker AW26 show, opening event of London fashion week.

This show is Tolu’s ode to Britain and London. It honours the council estate that shaped her through adolescence, joy, grief, guilt and her journey back home.

It is a love letter to inner children and to those loved and lost, a reminder that grief and joy share the same breath, and that community is a wealth money cannot buy.

Coincidentally, Tolu and my wife’s family were once next-door neighbours on the Mozart Estate, West London.