Roxey Lebedynska

Textile Technician

Roxey Lebedynska

Roxey always knew she was going to be an artist. Music shaped her eye, chaos fuels her process and fashion became the medium through which she says what she wants to say.

Roxey’s biggest influence is not a designer or a movement. It is music – unreservedly, completely. What has kept her in fashion is the fact that it never feels finished. There is always another idea, another piece, another way to push further. Her workspace reflects this – chaotic, different every day, and exactly how she works best. There is something about a bit of chaos, she says, that keeps her creative and moving.



Roxey doesn’t go into a piece with a fixed plan. She reacts to what is in front of her, the material deciding the direction. It is less about control and more about responding, adjusting – letting a piece become what it wants to be.

Denim is her favoured material: strong, versatile, honest and getting better with wear. Her denim items for Exiled are the most important she has ever made, attracting the praise of London Fashion Week – a reaction that made the toil of working on them all the more worth it.

For Roxey, Exiled means a second life and extreme creativity. Raw. Not easy work – and that, she makes clear, is precisely the point.

“Making is just how I express myself. It’s not separate from me. It is me. Every Exiled piece carries something personal, even if people don't see it straight away.”

When Roxey isn’t sewing or behind a camera, she is at a gig. She travels to see her favourite bands. Being in different places, around different people and styles, feeds directly into the work. She looks calm from the outside, but her head, she will tell you, is constantly full of ideas.

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“Music is 100% my biggest love and probably the biggest influence on everything I do. The energy, the attitude – it all feeds into my work. It shapes how I see things and how I want my pieces to feel.”

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This is our circle of makers: artisans, designers, technicians and technologists, each bringing a distinct craft and a shared conviction that the material others overlook still has more to say.

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Bridie Rimmer
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Bridie Rimmer

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Jo Smith

No material that reaches Jo is truly at the end of its life. She has spent her career proving it – one rescued, reimagined piece at a time.

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Jo Smith
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Kelimune Handloom Centre

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Kelimune Handloom Centre
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Kelimune Handloom Centre

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Polonnaruwa Artisan Community

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Polonnaruwa Artisan Community
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Roxey Lebedynska

Roxey always knew she was going to be an artist. Music shaped her eye, chaos fuels her process and fashion became the medium through which she says what she wants to say.

Roxey Lebedynska
Roxey Lebedynska
Textile Technician

Roxey Lebedynska

Textile Technician
Sam Grannon

Sam is not just interested in making things. He is interested in what becomes of them. Everything else – the materials, the process, the precision – follows from that.

Sam Grannon
Sam Grannon
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Sam Grannon

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Sisi

Sisi chose creativity at nine years old and has never reconsidered. Making for her is not a job or a practice. It is the clearest expression of who she is.

Sisi
Sisi
Textile Technician

Sisi

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Syd Newman

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Syd Newman
Syd Newman
Textile Technician

Syd Newman

Textile Technician
Tendai ‘Tee’ Murairwa

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Tendai ‘Tee’ Murairwa
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Tendai ‘Tee’ Murairwa

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