Article courtesy of thefashionisto.com

The team behind new label, Without Backbones hopes to “develop, stretch, and refine [their] designs, hoping to keep” their label “fresh and interesting” for themselves, as well as others.  They also hope to “reach as many people as possible, and like a good album, be remembered.”  Behind the label are designers Robin Graves and Joseph Hodgkinson.

Graves spent his adolescence growing up in a provincial seaside town.  This inspired him both negatively and positively.  For Graves, design has always “been more of a natural need or desire for something new to experience.” 

Always interested in the aesthetics of design, Graves studied illustration at the University of Brighton.  The environment fostered at Brighton led to an interest in fashion illustration and print making.  Since then, Graves has worked in the fashion industry “designing in house” and freelancing “for clients including the Rolling Stones.”  Working for the past seven years, Graves has always documented personal work, hoping some day to create his own stamp on the fashion industry.

Hodgkinson, on the other hand studied audio visual production in London, but “always had an interest in design and fashion.” 

Hodgkinson met Graves, while they were still at uni and somewhere along the line, decided to make clothes.  Over the past few years they have produced limited runs of directional graphic t-shirts, but it’s only now that they have produced their first "collection proper.”  They describe the spring collection as “a dress code of black on black, barely there boys in oversized sportswear, Pikeys and dogs, and 90’s suburbia England.”