Catwalk to ballet: the unending creativity of Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan's 2007 Spring/Summer catwalk show featuring this bubble dress Credit: Getty Images

Sadler's Wells dancers showcasing Chalayan's ballet Gravity Fatigue, choreographed with Damien Jalet Credit: Manuel Vason

Cosi fan tutte at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles in May 2014 with costumes designed by Chalayan. Credit: Getty Images

Dancers giving a taste of Gravity Fatigue Credit: Manuel Vason

Black helium balloons featured in Chalayan's Autumn/Winter 2003 show Credit: Catwalking

Chalayan's Autumn/Winter 2005 show was themed 'Murder on the Orient Express' Credit: Getty Images

Models at Hussein Chalayan's Spring/Summer 2007 catwalk show Credit: Getty Images

He is opposite the new Gagosian Gallery, near to Phillips auction house, and only a thimble’s throw from the flagship stores of the successful designers who started their businesses more than a decade after him: Roksanda Ilincic, Christopher Kane, Nicholas Kirkwood and Victoria Beckham.