On top of that, this was a year in which ‘sustainability’ became even more important, not only in terms of ethical production and natural resources, but with a growing awareness about human resources in our industry. Raf, Alber, Jonathan? Can we find ways to oppose the ‘norm’, when the students of the best fashion design schools come together? This is what we would like to find out. Besides, visiting new colleges was incredibly exciting this year! We realised that they are all so different from Central Saint Martins, which makes it all the more exciting to explore the work of our international peers.

In a similar vein, we wanted to expand 1 Granary to more students of different disciplines, like fine art and textiles. It was not easy, but the wheels have been set into motion! We were very happy to start working with the Royal Academy Schools, and also to cover much more fine art ‘in-house’. In 2016, both online and print will focus more on different pathways, as we are inspired by what other people do, and hope that collaboration between different disciplines will take place more often.

Some of this year’s show highlights were

Central Saint Martins White Show

Central Saint Martins BA Fashion

Central Saint Martins MA Fashion

Central Saint Martins Fine Art Open studios 1 and 2

Central Saint Martins Fine Art Degree show

Antwerp Fashion Department end of year show

Royal College of Art MA Fashion

In 2015, we met the most Influential Fashion Educators

Fabio Piras, Head of  MA Fashion at Central Saint Martins

David Kappo, BA Fashion tutor at Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art

Jane Rapley, former Head of Central Saint Martins

Andrew Groves, Head of Fashion at Westminster

Zowie Broach, Head of MA Fashion at Royal College of Art

Shelley Fox, Head of MA Fashion at Parsons, New York

Burak Cakmak, Dean of Parsons, New York

Simon Collins, former Dean of Parsons, New York

Valerie Steele from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Walter van Beirendonck, Head of Antwerp Fashion Department

Jurgi Persoons, Head of Fashion at The Hague Royal Academy of Art

Linda Loppa, Head of Fashion at Polimoda, Italy

In the past twelve months, we chilled with Antonio Banderas at Central Saint Martins, ran into Pierre Berge during a YSL exhibition, met video art legend Bill Viola, worked together with Bvlgari, met the minds behind Acne Paper: Duncan Campbell, Charlotte Rey and Thomas Persson, sat down for a one-on-one with the founder of the Antwerp Six: Geert Bruloot, learnt about excellence in design from Acronym, had enlightening conversations with Hussein Chalayan,Demna Gvasalia from Vetements and trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, went to Paris for the LVMH Prize, and launched issue 3! But that’s not all, we had some of the most inspiring interactions with all of the people below, who we would like to greatly thank for their time, generosity and advice!

In 2015, we got a whole bunch of advice from

Hugh Devlin on copyright

Charlie Porter on criticism

Mirko Borsche on art direction

Laura Holmes on fashion production

Wolfgang Tillmans and Viviane Sassen on the art of photography

V&A’s Oriole Cullen on curation

6 leading journalists on fashion journalism

Simon Foxton on styling

Alistair O’Neill of fashion history

James Brown from Hostem on running a fashion store

Ben Kelway from Arena Homme+ on publishing

Simon Horton on negotiating

Daryoush Haj-Najafi on fashion writing

…and had breakfast with these industry people to pick their brains

Anja Aronowsky Cronberg from Vestoj

Elizabeth von Guttman from System

Dan Thawley from A Magazine Curated by

Eugene Rabkin from Stylezeitgeist

Mimma Viglezio, editor-in-chief of Lula magazine and former Executive Vice President of Global Communications for the Gucci Group

Stavros Karelis from Machine-A

Stephen Jones, milliner

Caryn Franklin, fashion activist and former editor of i-D magazine

Anders Solvsten Thomsen, former Fashion Director at LOVE magazine

Ellie Grace Cumming, Fashion Director of AnOther Man

Tilly MacAlister-Smith, writer, former Fashion Features Editor at MATCHESFASHION.com

Hettie Judah, writer and contributing editor to ArtReview

Grace Cobb, former creative director of Wonderland

Even if this year was at times one of devastating headlines, the enthusiasm, positive vibes and invaluable insight we received from everybody made us realise that, actually, the future looks extremely bright. We hope that you have had a chance to learn a handful of useful things through our conversations with some of the most intriguing minds in the industry, that you were entertained, or perhaps started questioning several issues currently happening in the fashion world.

The entire team 1 Granary would like to wish you the best of festive days, and cannot wait to share awesome articles, upcoming talks and other events, as well as 1 Granary issue 4 with you in 2016! A very special thank you to everybody who contributed to the platform this year, we could not have possibly made all of the magic without you! Together with the students we will be taking a break until the 4th of January, but will be posting student projects of the White Show!