# Project Description Graduate Collection, 'Intimate Friends' Robyn Hennessy Summary Final work 2025 Menswear Graduate 2025 Menswear Graduate College London College of Fashion Course BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear Graduation year 2025 ‘Intimate Friends’ is a collection that turns misremembered queer history into a dreamy, chaotic love story. Inspired by hidden lesbian relationships throughout the centuries mis- labelled as friendships, erased as “roommates” It imagines their secret lives, their laughter, their chaos and the missing pieces, and queer love stories that history has left unaccounted for. Starting with the diaries of the ‘first modern lesbian’ Anne Lister an obsession grew to find other queer women from the past. Sadly finding that many of their stories were speculative, rewritten, or completely lost. The silhouettes draw on the wardrobes of Victorian lesbian couple Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, reworking masculine tailoring and feminine softness into something entirely new. Taking these historical references into modern contexts, the collection imagines lovers caught in the act, grabbing clothes from the floor, half-dressed, maybe even wrapping themselves in their bedding as makeshift outfits. It’s proudly messy yet polished at the same time. Garments are twisted, slightly too big and proportionally strange. Final work View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Research and process View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Share this project ‘Intimate Friends’ is a collection that turns misremembered queer history into a dreamy, chaotic love story. Inspired by hidden lesbian relationships throughout the centuries mis- labelled as friendships, erased as “roommates”It imagines their secret lives, their laught... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Identity Sexuality Archives & Collections Histories Fashion Menswear