“I suppose I’ve always had my head in the clouds. My mind often wanders down paths of wonder and I never know where I’ll end up, what fantastical inspiration is waiting for me, ready to be discovered. 

The creative process is different every time, and for every one. I love thinking about all those dreamers, those artists willing something into existence through sheer force of imagination. A novel, song, piece of art, or a beautiful gown. How many of those started with a dream?

Most of my dreams are fleeting. They live in my memory wrapped in a haze of mystery, sometimes abstract and completely unexpected, then occasionally one feels so crisply formed, it’s hard to believe it’s not real.

Within The English Dreamer collection, ethereal textiles capture the enigma and creativity of our dreams, while exquisitely precise tailoring represents those dreams being realised, birthed from the unconscious mind and crafted into something tangible.

Halfpenny London began with a dream. I sketched gowns across the pages of my parent’s phonebook as a small child, daydreaming about lace and silk, before I even knew the words to describe them. Now, almost twenty years later, I’m still dreaming.”

Kate Halfpenny