Roland Mouret is a French fashion designer based in London. Mouret was born in 1961. His father was a butcher; his mother worked as a maid in one of the abundant hotels catering to Lourdes's influx of religious devotees. Those strange conflicting worlds, of flesh and bone, of religion, of working uniforms and saintly drapery, marked his young life, moulding his nascent aesthetic. Thirty-six years later, their inherent contradictions would fuse together, when Roland Mouret sat down, and draped a dress.