Representing the creative future

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Masha Popova flies solo

The recent fashion design graduate found success online and rejected the post-grad job route

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Alex Wolfe on chairmen and playful masculinity

Alex Wolfe’s graduate collection, titled ‘The Boredroom,’ challenges traditional menswear codes, expressing playfulness and sensuality

Royal College of Art  –  Dec 2020

Krystal Paniagua on starting your own e-shop

Puerto Rican designer Krystal Paniagua explains the workings of selling her work directly to customers

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François-Xavier Lefebvre and the fashionable fetish

Where latex Vacuum Cubes meet playful design to escape everyday life.

Fashion Image  –  Dec 2020

Photographer Alexandra Leese on the power of saying no

British-Chinese photographer Alexandra Leese on empowering the female body and navigating the pressures of the industry

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How Sandra Poulson wove Angolan history into her collection

The recent graduate discusses her political approach to design and why fashion should be used to spark change.

Fashion Image  –  Dec 2020

CSM MA FASHION IMAGE 2020: Meet this year’s graduates

We asked this year’s Fashion Image students about their experience on the course and their hopes for the future

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How Yasmina Atta is channeling surrealist African cinema through her graduate collection

The Nigerian designer talks on capturing the feeling of in between-ness that exists when two cultures merge through a single collection that bonds traditional Nigerian doctrines with modern crafting techniques

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Mei Sze Tsang designs workwear for bricklayers

Reimagining a working-class uniform with nary a blue collar in sight.

Miscellaneous  –  Oct 2020

A Love Letter to Princess Diana’s 1981 Peruvian Jumper

An ode to Diana Spencer's iconic llama printed knit sweater

Fashion Trust Arabia: Zeid Hijazi explains how he won

Central Saint Martins  –  Jul 2020

Fashion Trust Arabia: Zeid Hijazi explains how he won

The Jordanian-Palestinian designer is one of the five winners of this year’s Fashion Trust Arabia

Opinion  –  May 2020

“SO CSM”: Are art-school kids a subculture?

Can we talk about an authentic subculture when today’s students need to fit in a system in order to survive?