Post No Bills
Founder & Artist
Richard Grace-Hughes is a designer and image-maker whose work has always lived at the edge — where underground culture meets crafted clothing and where street texture becomes visual identity.
Emerging from the late-70s / early-80s Punk and Blitz scene, Richard went on to cut his teeth in London’s more unruly fashion spaces, most notably through Deviant Soho at Hyper Hyper — a store and creative hub that brought together subculture, style, and attitude in equal measure. Throughout this period he shot the majority of his own brand imagery, shaping a distinctive visual language rooted in rebellion and experimentation.
Richard later worked as a fashion photographer and journalist for Hiragana Times in Tokyo Japan, before stepping away from the industry — only to be persuaded back into design by collaborators at Kokon To Zai. His rebooted label emerged first as English Eccentricity, evolving into Strangely English, and now simply Strangely: a crooked, history-haunted, East-End-inspired fashion brand where tailoring, texture and narrative are inseparable. He continues to design, build garments, and shoot all publicity in-house.
Post No Bills is Richard’s brainchild — ignited by years of walking the backstreets of Shoreditch and witnessing the chaotic beauty of illegal fly-posting. Brands and bands pasted their images into alleyways layered with grime, and as the paper tore and weathered, those visuals became more compelling, not less.
This project captures that defiant energy — turning outlaw surfaces into fine-art moments.
“I’ve always believed clothing belongs in the wild — in alleyways, under rain, against brick.
When a garment gets scuffed, creased, or torn, it becomes more honest. Post No Bills lets those moments live forever: art that the street tried to erase”
Richard’s work sits precisely at that collision point: punk impulses wrapped in tailored precision. Fashion images reborn as urban artefacts.
