When we think about London Fashion Week, we think of experimentation, bold colour, print clashes, and designers who aren’t afraid to challenge British restraint. Yet long before today’s runways embraced maximalism, one woman quietly rewrote Britain’s relationship with colour: Althea McNish. In the grey austerity of postwar Britain, colour was more than an aesthetic choice; it was a radical act. And few wielded colour as powerfully as Althea McNish, the Trinidad-born designer