Graduate Fashion Week 2017- Winchester School of Art BA Fashion Show

Hannah Price

The Winchester School of Art’s Graduate Fashion Show took place on the 25th May at The Vinyl Factory.

Serenity Wang

 There were 15 students who were chosen to showcase their graduate collections including 4 menswear designers: Hannah Price, Serenity Wang, Nida Zhang and Yu Jiang.

Nida Zhang

The diverse range of designs is an example as to how the WSA students are considered some of the most interesting designers of this graduating year.

Yu Jiang

Each designer showed 6 outfits:

Hannah Price

www.hannah-price.com

Serenity Wang

Nida Zhang

Yu Jiang

An exquisite evening full of talent, the show had 200 attendee’s including key industry and press contacts (including Mens Styling!) as well as WSA alumni and students.
Video of the show's finale:

Dumpty Studio SS17 Menswear at London Fashion Week

Dumpty Studio, a youthful design brand, is the work of a post-90’s duo coming from Central St Martins, but originally from China.

Design expertise lies in shapes and textures- from string tying,

 cloth and leather tying and folding to create textures

Fabric used is from Turkey, Italy and China.

An experimental attitude is expressed with raw denim edges

Classic shapes are reconfigured with neck holes adorning sleeves.

. Whilst the bottom of shirt fronts mirror the top

 The slightly eerie hand drawn logo of the Dumpty brand can be found on sweaters,

Video of finale:
Unconventional models exhibited the spring/summer 17 collection, a diverse spectrum of people encapsulating modern life and a notion of inclusive creativity.

hen asked about the casting choices, Ethan of Dumpty explained “speaking of our brand name, Dumpty, the theme of our brand is humorous, I think we used some of our friends to be freestyle.”
 The beauty of the work at Dumpty is found in the element of natural movement and use of slow techniques, that aim to “convey our respect to humanism, our collection does not aim to please or occupy some high grounds of education.”

AWAYTOMARS: tearing up the rulebook and opening up the fashion industry

AWAYTOMARS ,the world’s first 100% user-created fashion brand, has been selected to join the Centre For Fashion Enterprise, an organisation supported by University of the Arts London, the British Fashion Council and the European Union.

Alumni of the scheme include J.W. Anderson, Simone Rocha and LVMH Prize winners Marques’Almeida.
 AWAYTOMARS will present its new collaborative collection in the first week of October at Lisbon Fashion Week. More than 500 people have already contributed to its creative conception online.

HOW AWAYTOMARS WORKS:
They host campaigns where anyone, regardless of their background, can submit an idea and get instant feedback from the community.
Sketches and ideas are sent online from members of the public and AWAYTOMARS then iterates them with the help of its online community to create eye-catching, collaborative fashion.

Next, AWAYTOMARS works with technical experts to create physical prototypes, organises a crowdfunding campaign for each product, oversees the entire production process and finally hosts the finished item on its sales portal.
The most innovative and interesting concepts are selected by the community and a group of curators; these advance to the next phase - crowdfunding - where each item runs as an individual campaign.
Backers have the opportunity to support the designers by pre-ordering pieces at wholesale prices

 All successfully funded designs are produced as a co-created item in a process overseen by technical experts at AWAYTOMARS.
These experts turn designers’ ideas into reality using their knowledge of fabrics and techniques and by calling on their relationships with producers in Europe.
At AWAYTOMARS the community members are involved at every step of the design process: they decide what is ultimately produced.
Compared to traditional methods of product development in the fashion industry, AWAYTOMARS is cost and time effective: there’s no seasonality, nor is there inventory piling up in the stock room. Production is based on what has been pre-sold during the crowdfunding campaigns.
 AWAYTOMARS also proposes a new sales model to reward collaboration, in which profits are shared between both the original designers and any community members who provided significant input to shape the item.

www.awaytomars.com

Ximon Lee SS17 Men's Collection (presented by GQ china)

Ximon Lee views each season as a study, the realization of a sustainable concept to be revisited for the next study after.

His second study is SS17 HARD which is a further exploration of the concealing and uncovering of the body.

The collection is inspired by a growing boy's journey and how his perception of that which is hard and tough is framed by his preconceptions.

The inspiration is reflected in fragile materials that are tailored in hard silhouettes. playing with conventional workwear and unconventional embellishment and placements.

Harsh techniques contrast the serene and the disturbed, including acid-wash, silicone concealing, latex coating and tailored tarpaulin.

University of Westminster graduate fashion show 2016 - menswear

The University of Westminster’s class of 2016 kicked off the graduate fashion show season with a vibrant and eclectic runway show held at Ambika P3 in Central London.

Jack Byne copyright © Simon Armstrong

Jack Byne - who interned last year at Louis Vuitton’s menswear studio in Paris - showed a menswear collection of exaggerated tailoring featuring striped silk taffetas, in pale yellow-greys and khaki greens, contrasted with jet black leather.

REGENT’S SCHOOL OF FASHION & DESIGN (PART OF REGENT’S UNIVERSITY LONDON) GRADUATE FASHION SHOW

The show included four menswear menswear collections.
Kyle Cooley - Barren Drift. Inspired by sportswear for yacht racing and snowboarding with emphasis on outerwear such as windcheaters and cagoules.Main colour palette are blues and greys with a tiny dose of red. Tonal colour blocking on trousers.

Farid K Bin Karim - Luluhawa (translation - Weathering )
Stiff shiny gossamer for jacket sleeves, sweatshirts and shirts, fluid latex rubber for shorts and front panels on tops. Zen like quality with palazzo style pants and skirts both long and short. Accessories included long nail extension jewellery (similar to those worn by Thai dancers) and a gas mask. Colour Palette: all black.

Rakayla Robertson- Darkness Blooms. Starting with all black robes adorned with black foliage appliques, the collection transformed into autumnal reds and greens, ending on an outfit of pure white. Headgear also transformed from the harsh brittle crown of dead twigs, to lush green supple branches and then blossoming into crowns of red and white roses. Accessories included transparent plimsoll bags full of leaves.

Isaias Ponce  - Mechaphilia
Inspired by the love of motorbikes and cars, car registration numbers adorn shirts and exhaust pipes are wrapped around the neck like a scarf caught in the wind. Fabrics include denim, leather and rubber. Accessories include bags made from bike parts and a ruck sack adorned with rear view mirrors.
The City of Wasted Youth is written on the back of one of the shirts, whilst other garments have the more upbeat fire sketch found painted on fast cars.Colour palette: blue, red and black.

 Following the show Jane Whitfield, Design Director of Louis Vuitton awarded prizes to two lucky design students, one of which was Isaias Ponce.

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