Suffice to say that if were a frequenter of Boombox and/or attend all Ponystep shindigs (Ponystep is moving to Paris to the Regine club....get ready Parisians....), you tend to be dancing around, surrounded by bundles of talent.  Everybody is a fashion designer/illustrator/set designer/printmaker and generally creaaaaaative.  Makes people like me, who latch onto creatives get all excited and geeky.  When I snapped this gal at the JCDC party at Punk aaaaages ago, I guess I should have done the proper thing, asked for her name and Googled it as invariably SOMETHING would pop up.

Instead, it's taken me this long to gather enough info.  Her name is Echo Morgan (well not really...it's actually Xie Rong...) and she hails from Chengdu in China and after studying in Central Saint Martins, she has stayed on in London to bestow us with her wonderful illustrations, set design, collages and general mixed media loveliness...

You might have seen her watercolours for the Feathers website...

Her collage and set design work for some reason echoes (ho ho ho...) the images that accumulate in my head... if I was half as skilled, I'd go about constructing such menageries of images in real life but instead they only exist in my head and Echo's work is therefore like the beautiful physical realisation.  I'm hoping that the escapist mood at the moment propels Echo to do more spreads in magazines, giving her an entirely free hand to do whatever pops up in her dynamic brain... 

I'd especially love to see her go mad in the windows of Selfridges where she has done some work before...

I couldn't really not include any of her fantastic outfit shots either as that was the thing that led me to her work in the first place.  She confesses that she has the habit of outdressing the host at parties which may well be true but I suppose she is endearing enough with the effort she puts into her outfits not to annoy/grate said hosts...