Down a cobbled road somewhere in the depths of east London, in a little yard and through a nondescript door, we meet young designer on the rise, Phoebe English.

English was first propelled into the fashion industry's consciousness when she sent models dressed in long gowns made entirely from hair down the runway for her MA show back in 2011. Her way with texture and surfaces won her the L 'Oreal Professionnel Creative award and a flurry of hype.

The next season she produced a collection based around fashion's most humble fabric - canvas and worked this most ordinary of materials into sculptured, pleated pieces and again, the accolades followed with a Vauxhall Fashion Scout Merit award.

Intricate crafting, strong shapes and a eye for materials has been honed by English once more for AW12. But as she stretches herself as a designer, the collection steers towards a more traditional notion of womenswear, without sacrificing any of the drama. Colour was introduced with pink felted wools that came in cropped shirts, slick rubber lined the hem of a skirt and translucent latex was sliced into black dresses.

We step into her studio shared with business partner Rose Easton, jammed with fabric, inspiration on the walls and those busily pattern cutting to find out more about Phoebe English.

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London is a city that is teeming with fashion talent and full of prestigious schools turning out a steady stream of young, skilled designers. Graduate shows are closely watched to see whose collections, out of the extravagant, the hip and the down right crazy, will be brought out by Browns Focus and who'll be heralded as the next big thing. It's built its reputation as a city that welcomes and nurtures young designers. But cutting your teeth here, along with hundreds of other hopefuls, takes standing out to a whole new level.

For Leutton Postle, making an impact seems to be quite natural. Central Saint Martins graduates and friends, Sam Leutton and Jenny Postle, create wild rainbow-hued, tongue in cheek and eccentric luxury knitwear. The've been developing their unusual textures, colours and patterns for two seasons now and are catching the attention of editors and buyers as well as landing the Vauxhal Fashion Scout Merit Award.

We went to find their east London studio to find out more about these young designers.