To launch her spring/summer 2013 collection, fashion designer Phoebe English created a stop-motion video with artist Georgia Kemball.

It shows the emergence of spring but not as you know it: black plastic trees burgeon and rustle, grow berries, droop and drop to the ground and create a rotting river. Yes indeed, it's an allotmenteer’s nightmare but also an (aesthetically) subversive take on the season of new beginnings.

Georgia's video seems almost to be a stand-alone work of art. But it grasps at an essence of Phoebe's design work, and that's the visual tactility of the material, be it acrylic, cotton or latex. These, of course, are materials that have other connotations and uses, but Phoebe gives them a new lease of life in her fashion design. And in her portrait of a black plastic spring, so too does Georgia.

Phoebe English was featured in Oh Comely Issue 13. See her other fashion films at vimeo.com and visit Georgia Kemball's website for more information on her multi-disciplinary practice.