At least for the moment, Bianca Saunders thinks her favorite color might be electric blue. “And a burnt orange. I love colors that are slightly uneven,” she adds, her voice echoing off the bare walls of her studio. The two shades have been a running thread through the SS23 collection the fashion designer is currently formulating. “The new season is all about things being hard and soft,” Saunders reveals. “It’s brighter than others as well. But I don’t want to say too much.”

GQ has declared that the 28-year-old London-born designer is “changing the way men dress” with her surreal, sculptural clothes: elegant pieces that transcend the confines of binary gender, and made her a finalist for the LVMH Prize in 2021. Talking through her personal style, formative websites a...