Designer spotlight: Chelsea Bravo

Chelsea Bravo was born in New York and moved to London with her parents at the age of two. Chelsea attended University For The Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent and went on to intern with designers Christopher Shannon and Martine Rose after graduating. Chelsea Bravo envisions creative freedom and continues to push contemporary menswear design through construction, shape and silhouette. With a spirit of curiosity and a desire to explore and discover; Chelsea Bravo challenges the conventions of menswear through her concepts, ultimately creating beautifully crafted items for todays man that bridge the gap between form and functionality in contemporary menswear.

In 2013 Chelsea Bravo founded her eponymous menswear label, with the launch of her spring/summer 2013 collection entitled Dysfunction. The collection was strongly received and brought the brand a great amount of attention and recognition. June 2014 saw Chelsea hold her first presentation for spring/summer 2015 at London Collection: Men, as well as her first collaboration with poet and artist Kojey Radical. Together Chelsea and Kojey created a one of kind capsule collection for Kojey’s project and debut EP Dear Daisy, the lookbook and short film was exclusively premiered by Wonderland Magazine.