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WAIT, Y’ALL! HOLDTHE FRONT PAGE NEWS!
WITHTHEIR MOTTO BEING ‘FRESHLYWHIPPED, NEVER BEATEN’,
CAKE NOW HAS A NEW MEANING AND CONCEPT.
JADA BROOKES
FINDS OUT MORE ABOUT THE CAKE FASHION
PHENOMENON SWEEPINGTHROUGHTHE EAST OF
LONDONAND BEYOND.
CAKEY
CLOTHIN
F
rom doing a month’s concession
at Box Park in Shoreditch with Art
Against Knives, an organisation
that works with young people,
to appearing at trendy markets such as
Hoxton, London Fields and Spitafields
in east London and Camden in north
London, to hosting a fashion show
entitled ‘Welcome to Wonderland’ at
the Hackney Empire 2 Bullion Rooms
that showcased the talents of young
designers and artists, and being featured
in the
Hackney Citizen, Hackney Today,
Goods Trader
and
UKB
magazines, Cakey
Clothing have caused quite a stir in the
last couple of years.
Cakey Clothing has an interesting
concept in that the designer wear is
inspired by the “sweet life, the love
for diamonds, cakes and other yummy
treats” and is made for those who
absolutely love cake, the delicious
pastime that we all love to devour and
try our hardest to resist. The label is
the brainchild of Cleo Marcelle Antoine
who has been designing fashion for the
last five years and studied GCSE Art and
3D Product Design at school as well as a
two-year BTEC National in Fashion and
Clothing at Waltham Forest College to
gain more skills in the fashion industry.
This ambitious drive to study and
succeed has certainly paid off as Cleo’s
established label The Bakery by Cakey is
growing from strength to strength.
The aspiring young designer says her