The Yorkshire fashion designer who knows how we all love clothes with pockets

Whether she is making a work of art or a piece of clothing, Georgia Boniface adheres to three founding principles: elegance, simplicity and colour.

“I like to create clothes with a strong, elegant silhouette – limited-edition garments in beautiful colours and textures,” she says. “I love working with colour and clean geometric lines. I try to keep the garment shapes as simple as possible while looking for the most flattering lines.”

The result is West View, a collection of beautifully easy clothes with a decidedly artistic signature, hand-made in West Yorkshire and guaranteed to draw admiring glances the world over. These are contemporary pieces, and yet with an utterly timeless and borderless sophistication and appeal.

This is largely thanks to Georgia’s ethos of form meeting function, with practicality stitched in. “Everything has pockets,” she says. “In this sense, I was fulfilling my own needs in that I wanted to design clothes that I could wear while working but still make me look and feel good when I left the studio to go out.

“My customers are individually minded, independent, creative women who want an individually defined look in the easiest way possible – something that is not easily found on the high street.”

The goal is always to feel elegant and confident but – and this is most important – comfortable. Therefore, each West View piece brings structural simplicity without embellishment, except for ties and drawstrings, and of course, those pockets. Georgia uses mainly linen and wool, with quality and sustainability key design priorities. “I try to use as many locally sourced materials as possible,” she says.