Meet Michael Halpern: Doyen of Undone Disco Couture

In the expansive fashion studio at Central Saint Martins, Michael Halpern is sifting through the references that inspired his inaugural A/W16 womenswear collection, shown at London Fashion Week this past February as part of Central Saint Martins’ MA Fashion graduation show. On an A4 print-out, the bleached blonde model Donna Jordan – dressed in a diamanté adorned silk slip – exhales cigarette smoke from a provocative crimson-lined mouth, her eyelids a shimmering pale blue…