Conner Ives

Conner Ives is a London-based womenswear label led by American designer Conner Ives, a Central Saint Martins graduate. Born in the US and based in the UK, Ives built early experience inside the European luxury system before launching his own work as an independent proposition on the London Fashion Week schedule. Since its emergence, the label has gained attention through runway shows, custom commissions and a distinctive approach to reworking existing garments.

The brand is recognised for combining sharp, body-conscious silhouettes with a collage-like treatment of materials and finish. Upcycled clothing, reclaimed textiles and repurposed embellishment have become recurring elements, alongside fitted dresses, skirts and tops designed for nightlife and red-carpet contexts. Ives’ work has been worn by high-profile clients and covered widely by major fashion titles, helping position the label within the current generation of London designers balancing studio-scale production with global cultural reach.

The label is sold through a small number of international stockists and direct channels.

Public statements around the label connect design to storytelling and responsibility. Ives has described making clothes that carry the histories of their materials, treating upcycling as both a waste-reduction strategy and a creative method that preserves the emotional texture of vintage and found garments.

The brand’s most visible cause-linked projects are framed as extensions of this stance rather than as separate marketing. Benefit items such as slogan T-shirts have been positioned as direct fundraising and solidarity tools, with proceeds directed to organisations and communities under pressure. Across interviews and official text, the guiding principles are transparency about process, reuse as a design discipline, and a belief that fashion can operate as a platform for cultural speech.

The tone is pragmatic rather than utopian: attention is placed on where materials come from, how garments are built, and where money flows when products are used for fundraising. Responsibility, in this framing, is practiced through concrete choices—repair, reuse and redistribution—alongside an insistence on glamour and pleasure.