Home Truths: SUM LONDON SS25 Menswear Runway Show

Working with designer Margaret Sam, the founder and Creative Director of SUM LONDON, Museum of the Home is bringing a catwalk of Margaret’s Homebound collection to a setting like no other – our new gallery, Rooms Through Time: 1878-2049.

Inspired by ideas of home and her dual-heritage as a London-born Chinese designer, the collection reflects British Asian culture through mixing Eastern silhouettes with utilitarian menswear.

SUM LONDON pieces are made-to-order and manufactured in Britain.

This Home Truths edition marks the gallery’s opening and celebrates their diverse stories and identities with the catwalk winding through our period rooms from 1878 to 2049.

Aligning with London Fashion week, the programme highlights the fact that while our new rooms are specific to some communities, they also include relatable aspects in all our experiences, especially as British citizens. The rooms are festive, they champion differences as well as similarities, symbolising what makes us human.

Following the catwalk, Margaret will be in conversation with Gaynor Tutani, from Museum of the Home. Together they will be discussing experiences of Asian diaspora and the nuances of a British Chinese home within a multi-cultural Britain.

What’s On

7pm | Runway Show
8:15pm | Talk, A British Chinese Home, featuring Margaret Sam and Gaynor Tutani
9pm | Drinks

This event is part of our initiative to discuss and explore decolonial practices. As a curator and producer, Gaynor is interested in ideas of decoloniality and how it can be a process and practice embedded within public programming. The talk and catwalk are an example of that practice, and this will be discussed during the talk. A short film screening of SUM LONDON fashion directed by Ramzey Sabbagh will also be part of the programme.