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Designer Yinka Ilori has won a competition to overhaul a “gloomy underpass” in south London, with a proposal featuring vibrant colours and bold patterns.

Ilori saw off competition from five other shortlisted studios to win the Thessaly Road Railway Bridge contest, organised as part of the London Festival of Architecture back in June.

His design, Happy Street, imagines the dark space beneath the old railway bridge in Wandsworth transformed into a welcoming space for pedestrians and cyclists, which the local community can also be proud of.

He plans to install enamel-powder-coated panels across the bridge’s water-stained brick walls, creating a new surface that is both durable and reflective.

Both these panels, as well as the underside of the bridge, will be decorated in a rainbow of colours. These were selected by Illori to reference the bright colours that can be observed during sunsets over the River Thames nearby.

At night, the design will be illuminated by coloured lights “to bring a sense of cheerfulness and delight to a hitherto ordinary environment”.

The project is set to go ahead, to be unveiled during the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) in 2019.

Ilori said he “can’t wait to work with the community to bring Happy Street to life”.

“I am very grateful to the LFA team and the local community around Thessaly Road for believing in Happy Street and am looking forward to bringing the rainbow to the underpass,” he said. “This is a very special project with a very special community and I feel honoured to have been given this opportunity.”

Ilori’s proposal was selected by a panel of judges that included Dezeen editorial director Amy Frearson, designer Morag Myerscough, LFA director Tamsie Thompson, head of culture for HS2 Anne Mullins, Footwork founder Clare Richards and Covent Garden Market Authority chair Pam Alexander.

It was also the most popular design in a local community vote.

Steffi Sutters, a Wandsworth Council cabinet member, described it as “a hugely exciting project to improve and rejuvenate a local thoroughfare”.

“As well as bringing innovative art and colour to the street that will be enjoyed by all, I know that the local schoolchildren will be very happy with Yinka’s bright design as they find the underpass dark and scary in its current state,” she said.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing the design come to life over the next year and thank all the local residents who took part in helping us to get this far.”

Illori often works with communities in his projects. In a recent project, he worked with people in addiction recovery to upcycle discarded chairs.

The London-based artist plans to work with the Wandsworth community to further develop his design before it becomes final.

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British fashion designer Gareth Pugh takes inspiration from society’s outcasts with his latest collection, which he describes as “uncompromising, anarchic and fiercely confrontational”.

Pugh‘s Spring Summer 2019 collection, presented at the Old Selfridges Hotel during London Fashion Week, features a “riot of print and colour” with geometrically patterned morph suits, exaggerated tailoring and paramilitary boots.

The designer dedicated the show to his friend and mentor, stylist and punk icon Judy Blame, who passed away in February.

“Judy was uncompromising, ungovernable and fiercely anti-establishment. He was a creative extremist,” said Pugh.

“He came up in the 1980s and 1990s, where much of culture was moving toward the shallow and the acquisitive. Dumbed-down, debased and dissociated from its primary purpose: creative expression,” he continued. “Judy was a counterpoint to that.”

In celebration of Blame’s outsider style, Pugh has put an emphasis on bold prints reminiscent of the 1980s club scene. He also looked to the idea of renewal, by installing turned earth – “fertile loam for new ideas” – on the catwalk floor.

The opening look featured a semi-sheer bodysuit with a geometric star print in black and red – a reference to Pugh’s graduate collection in 2004, which adopted the same pattern.

“This collection and show speaks to the cyclical nature of art, fashion and politics, and places its faith in the cycle of renewal,” reads the show notes.

Some models were dressed in intricately tailored suits with cut-out panels, while other looks included metallic pink trench coats and leather hardware.

The closing outfit was a black latex turtleneck and a billowing skirt with dark orange detailing, delivered by a seemingly pregnant model.

Pugh said the collection was “utterly loaded with emotional freight”.

Sunderland-born Pugh has developed a reputation for exploring subversive and provocative themes in his designs.

Since bringing his biannual shows back to the UK capital from Paris in February 2015, the designer has shown a collection informed by the “inescapable forces of the cultural landscape” and another featuring dresses covered in coins.

His last range was designed for “women who accept zero bullshit”.

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