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So, I'm Katie Eary, menswear designer.
I've been doing it for seven years as an independent designer,
showing at Fashion Week et cetera.
I went to the RCA. That's where I did my Master's.
So, seven years later, here we are. This is my house, my studio.
I live, breathe, eat, do everything here.
A good home is somewhere where you go in and you feel really comfortable.
It shouldn't be about having loads of flashy things.
It should be owning lots of things that complement your personality,
so that when you walk into a home, it's like you're walking into their brain.
In the 90s, when you used to go round your friends' house,
they'd have a stack of CDs. You'd look at it, and you'd know who this person is.
Nowadays, they're playing all this kind of stuff, like new wave,
and then they'll be listening to rock, and I'm like, 'I just don't know who you are!'
So now it's books I look at, and I'm like, 'Alright, okay'.
But even then I'm like, 'But you're doing it to be trendy.' It's really hard to know.
So I think furniture is the last thing left, like, for your true identity.
So, I kind of started it how I'd start any collection.
I collated loads of images of everything that I love in the home.
What I would like to bring forward and what I feel is missing.
I'm a print-based designer, so obviously, this will be a print-based collection.
What are the prints going to be? They'll have to be something quite trippy,
something that attracts you through the colour, or whatever.
Like, all the senses are turned up.
I love furniture. Like, I'm obsessed.
I especially love kitchenware, so I was like:
'Okay, right, I can do something really cool here.'
I started thinking, 'Who's the muse? Who's the guy?'
It was a cross between my younger brothers, again,
and then Johnny Depp from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Super cool, hippie, but not quite, just weird.
You know, the kind of guy that will bring back girls or have wild parties,
and everything in his house is going to be strange, so, it's got a story.
I went straight in for the kitchen. But as we went along the design process,
it was also about... 'So, when they get home from work or uni or whatever,
what does their front room look like?'
'If their friends come round, how do they offer them drinks?'
'What do the glasses look like?'
It was kind of like the journey from getting back, walking through the house,
and getting to the kitchen and doing this dinner party.
Obviously, I want them to absolutely love it.
I want them to be like me, in that, like the child's bedroom range,
just buying all the toadstools, that you definitely don't need.
and the fish-print cushions that you also don't need, but you just can't not have.
I'm so excited to bring a bit of vibrancy into people's house!
And just to feel like I can contribute that bit of personality into their homes.
It feels good.