In 2018, disillusioned, she ditched fashion week for the more genteel London Craft Week in May. The following year she put the label on sabbatical while she went to work for Cos. ‘Sometimes you need to give things time to breathe,’ she said at the time. ‘I needed that little bit of a rest, and that change in perspective.’
It all served to make Le Kilt even more desirable. Recharged, she and Le Kilt returned in 2020 with a pledge to avoid synthetics, go slow and honour the craft, which she learnt from the same Italian grandmother who’d made her that first kilt, and who sewed them for the tourist shops on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.