I had come to Cluny Lace, in Ilkeston, in the lace country around ... Cyprus and Czechia — hunting down old machines to strip and pick dry of thousands of spare parts. Mason once purchased ...

It was 2015, during the height of Phoebe Philo’s era of Céline, when I first saw her lace-trimmed, silky dresses and tank tops on the catwalk. They had a ’90s flair, but enhanced with Philo ...