Old Crows
Gunta Andrews, founder and designer of Don’t Dictate
Clothes, character and place.
Clothes, character and place.
Gunta Andrews is the designer behind Don’t Dictate, a developing fashion brand challenging the way older women are represented and designed for within the fashion industry.
Her Old Crows collection celebrates the agency, style and attitude of older women. Its sculptural silhouettes draw on the work of Barbara Hepworth and Lynn Chadwick, with styling influenced by the black-clad Karasu-zoku of 1980s Japan.
A graduate of Anglia Ruskin University’s BA (Hons) Fashion Design course, Gunta won the Inclusive Fashion Award at Graduate Fashion Week 2026 and was also selected for the Graduate Fashion Foundation x Liberty Fabrics competition.
Gunta asked me to photograph the collection because she felt I understood what she was trying to say with it. I suggested an industrial location of concrete, machinery, tyres and rubble. The contrast felt right: sculptural clothes, individuality and attitude set against something deliberately hard and uncompromising.
This was my first fashion shoot, but the way I approached it was familiar. Understand the people, the work and the place, then let the photographs grow from that. The clothes mattered, but so did the women wearing them, the way they moved and the confidence with which they occupied the space.
Rhiannon, Gunta and Sinead between shots.
Old Crows, 2026
