Faustine Steinmetz is one of very few designers who start at zero to make something truly wonderful out of almost nothing. Her raw material isn't a bolt a fabric but yarn. She spins it, weaves it and dyes it, creating one-of-a-kind handcrafted pieces that often look like nothing you've ever seen before-even when the piece is, for instance, a denim jacket.

Her Fall 2016 collection, presented at the Tate Britain, featured embroidered and sculpted cotton in tubular, wave-like patterns as well as a strap-on neoprene bags and a handwoven mohair coat that might have been a dream. All of these were presented according to color-whites with whites, blues with blues, yellow with yellow-inside fabric-covered boxes roughly the size of your smallest bedroom, each with small windows to peep through.

Faustine has gone on record before as being adamantly anti-catwalk (the Brits say "catwalk," not "runway"), and clothing that really is artful deserves to be seen in an intimate setting.

Faustine-that's her below in the painted sneakers talking to a fashion journalist-on art-world influences and the best way to look at fashion.

http://blogs.nordstrom.com/fashion/files/2016/02/Faustine.m4a

-Laura Cassidy