Searle was studying at the London College of Fashion and working for Marques’Almeida when she moved next door to Hayes’s west London studio.
It was quite an entrance,” says Laura Searle, a slender 33-year-old Spaniard with an elegant, almost feline poise. “The first time I met James, I crashed into a barbecue in the garden. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
