The old ice rink was carpeted white from wall to wall. Long white benches curved around a straight runway, with a paper bag waiting on every seat. Ian Griffiths built the collection on the women who travelled alone in the 1930s, in linen and safari shirts.

The hall takes its light from the roof. A steel structure with long rows of skylights lets the morning in, and at that hour the sun cuts across the white walls in hard diagonal blades. Blearred worked with it. The show light held the runway in an even, warm white so the linens kept their colour, and the sunlight was left on the walls and over the front rows as it came.

For Blearred, Ivan Russo and Matteo Masini were lighting designers, and Matteo Moro operated the show.

Photos courtesy of Random Production, by Camilla Dalla Costa.

The sun took the walls, and the runway kept to the show light.