Laura Andrashcko Does What She Wants
What does it take to design clothes for women who live by their own rules? Ask the Berlin-born, London-based designer and she’ll tell you bad decisions are always a good place to start.
Raised by restaurateur parents whose regulars ranged from aesthetes to anarchists, Laura Andraschko has been sneaking into places she shouldn’t since she was a teen. The London-based designer cut her teeth between Berlin’s art scene and its dance floors. The leap into fashion felt natural. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2021, Laura has become shorthand for a specific kind of maximalist fantasy. Most recently, her Spring/Summer 2026 collection, staged inside Paris’s Raspoutine Club under crimson light, sent 42 looks down the runway as a love letter to Monte Carlo’s high-society gambling culture. Today, the bonafide club rat approaches every design with a single question: Would I want it?
What’s the first thing you do when you get to the studio?
Coffee!
What are your three favorite objects in your studio?
My poodle statue, my books, and my day bed.
If you were an animal, what would you be?
Hmm, I really don’t want to be an animal.
What’s inspiring you currently?
It’s so random, and it’s different every day. It can be anything really; sometimes it’s a color or a particularly good outfit (accidental or curated). Subcultures are always the most interesting to me, though.
What’s on repeat?
Swans and Death in Vegas are my two all time favorite bands, so I always listen to them, and at the moment I’m reading Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici.
What would be your “ghost outfit”?
I guess a bedsheet with two cut out holes.
Describe your last supper.
I love food, so it’s difficult. Maybe aguachile with tiger prawns then bistecca alla fiorentina, and venetian liver from Harry’s in London. I would probably have it with my whole family.
What are you currently working on?
A new collection. As always.
What’s the first question you ask yourself when starting a new piece?
This changed a lot over time. Now it’s, Would I want it? And then I try to only adapt it to the storyline of each collection.
What’s a material you keep coming back to?
Tweed!
