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Join Lifestyle Editor Gilda Bruno and Interiors Editor Emma Breislin as they journey through the London Design Festival. From the Brompton Design District to the creative hubs of Shoreditch, they discover provocative and innovative works that are shaping the future.
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00:00I'm stepping inside and it's a temple of light.
00:02But doesn't this feel very short?
00:04It's putting on a show.
00:06We're in for a trip.
00:07We're off to Brunton Design District
00:09and specifically Isamaya French Studio Iron Exhibition.
00:13Isamaya French is mainly known for her boldness
00:16and what I'm most interested about is like seeing how all of these different names
00:22meeting in the space.
00:24It's really cool.
00:25I love...
00:26Today design wants to be provocative.
00:30It's the, you know, it's the word that's shaping everything, that...
00:33Breaking the rules.
00:34Yes.
00:35And kind of setting new standards of what...
00:37Innovating.
00:38Self-expression can mean as well.
00:40I definitely think if I was to take something home, it would be the chainmail lamp.
00:46I love being able to see lots of different designers under one roof,
00:49like how different people think and yeah, exciting.
00:55I was standing outside before and this young woman walked past and she was like,
00:59that is a cool colour.
01:00Pointing at our car and I was like, yes it is.
01:02Purple, what did I tell you?
01:04Shoreditch is such a buzzy, creative, rule-breaking, rule-bending sort of area
01:11and I feel like it completely came through in those designs.
01:13I thought it would have been quite hard to beat the first edition, which was last year,
01:18but actually this year it went to a whole different level.
01:22And it was just so great to see, you know, so many different international students
01:26really coming together and explore materials in different ways,
01:31but also just like creating such atmosphere within a historical building
01:37and making it feel so fresh and innovative.
01:39I think elegance is quiet confidence.
01:43It's not needing to necessarily like scream or shout.
01:47It's about like quietly and confidently knowing who you are
01:50and what you want and what you're wanting to put out to the world.

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