Donna Wilson

RCA graduate Donna Wilson has resisted the lure of the mainstream fashion and textile industries to carve out a career path as a 3D designer working with 'knit'.

Amid the trademark tasteful charcoal greys and elegant curves of the collection launched by contemporary British furniture brand SCP in Milan last month, one glowing, Technicolor item stood out, rather like an aberrant flash of Benetton in a Cecil Gee suit shop. 

The designer responsible has been quietly making her name in British design circles for the past four years, despite having a slightly unconventional pedigree. Donna Wilson is a textile designer, but one who eschews the pull towards the textile or fashion industry that...