British designer S.S. Daley wins 2024 Queen Elizabeth II Award

British designer S.S. Daley wins 2024 Queen Elizabeth II Award

British designer S.S. Daley has been awarded the 2024 Queen Elizabeth II Award on the opening day of London Fashion Week.

The award, given annually, recognises a designer who leads with innovation and who makes a difference to society either through sustainable practices or community engagement.

Graduating from the University of Westminster in 2020 under Andrew Groves, Steven Stokey-Daley debuted his first collection titled ‘The Inalienable Right’ for AW20. The collection explored the relationship between British class culture and the access to arts in education via the nostalgic representations of homo-socialism within public school institutions as depicted in ‘Brideshead Revisited’ and ‘Maurice’. Stokey-Daley has since continued to flirt with class ideologies with what he calls ‘micro subversions’; juxtaposing his own working class, Liverpudlian upbringing with that of the Harrovian’s he studied adjacent to while in the Harrow campus of his University.