Helen David’s 37 Seasons

When Helen David first founded her fashion label, English Eccentrics, in the early 80s, she was living in a Brixton Squat and selling her designs from a market stall in Camden. By the mid-90s, she was dressing stars like Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Prince, Helen Mirren and Helena Bonham-Carter. Then, at the turn of the millennium, during the height of her success, her brand unexpectedly collapsed. Twenty years later, her son – filmmaker Oliver David – investigates what happened. Looking through her life’s work, he traces her creative journey, through meteoric success and devastating failure, and discovers how she reinvented herself after losing everything.

Oliver David (1989) is a writer and director living in London. His work has appeared in New York Times, Guardian, Pitchfork, Paper Magazine, Bullett, & more. He is the producer of PVT CHAT with Julia Fox and Peter Vack (2020) and post-producer of the feature documentary The Faithful (2021). His critical writing has been published by the International Center of Photography. He is a former faculty member at the School of Visual Arts.