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How Alexandra Armata unpicked her Polish heritage with her MA collection
She explored the utilitarian wardrobe of Soviet Poland, the impact of politics on dress and the contrast towards today’s hyperconsumption
Masha Popova flies solo
The recent fashion design graduate found success online and rejected the post-grad job route
Cornelia Borgerhoff gave Ivy League Style An Update
Raised in a predominantly white neighbourhood in Philadelphia, menswear designer Cornelia Borgerhoff explores what it means to be white when you’re not with a collection full of contemporary prep-school looks.
Alex Wolfe on chairmen and playful masculinity
Alex Wolfe’s graduate collection, titled ‘The Boredroom,’ challenges traditional menswear codes, expressing playfulness and sensuality
Laura Tanzer: Why storytelling makes design irrelevant
Laura Tanzer calls for a change in fashion education
François-Xavier Lefebvre and the fashionable fetish
Where latex Vacuum Cubes meet playful design to escape everyday life.
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.
What do Creative Directors and Designers actually do?
The inherent opaqueness of our industry makes it difficult to look behind the scenes
Julia Ballardt: The poetry of punk
The German designer Julia Ballardt is inspired in her collection by the subculture’s signature emblems of belonging.
Parsons graduate Qingzi Gao aims to redefine what ‘MADE IN CHINA’ means in fashion
The Chinese designer gives value to objects seen as disposable
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
Recruiters on Fashion Schools: Are Graduates Being Adequately Prepared for the Job Market?
Fashion's key recruiters on fashion education and employability
Johanna Parv: “Is femininity a form or an action?”
Womenswear graduate Johanna Parv questions the extent to which the shapes from everyday, active situations impose restrictions on the female form
Abdel El Tayeb on creating his own nation as an homage to his father
Abdel El Tayeb: An exploration of origin
Mei Sze Tsang designs workwear for bricklayers
Reimagining a working-class uniform with nary a blue collar in sight.
Jay Juyeon Lee: Measurements are subjective
The South Korean designer is celebrating the physicality of the human figure.
Samantha D’iorio: Why does size matter?
The Australian designer questions the state of body inclusivity in the industry, and focuses on fit and function.
Joshua Crabtree feels fortunate in 2020
A conversation with Joshua Crabtree on trying to fill the void post-graduation and finding something positive
Daichi Tabata on championing storytelling through design
The Japanese graduate discusses his unusual journey into fashion, translating emotion through design and why we should be repurposing our clothes
Chi Yu Han and the gender divide in fashion
The New York-based designer thinks carefully about masculine and feminine roles within a given garment.
Isidora Durovic: The case for improvisation in design
From childhood modelling for Celine to designing during the pandemic, Serbian designer Isidora Durovic digs into the Working Girl handbag for her graduate collection
London-based knitwear designer Eleana Burrow’s design process based on her instinct
Designing is a response to her own life, so practicality meet emotions, textures, lines and shapes to structure the fluid silhouettes in her knits
Mollie-may Boyd on the irrelevance of the outcome
The BA Fashion Design with Marketing graduate questions a fashion education relying on theoretical concepts and overly polished images
Talia Byre is collecting her heritage
Recent graduate Talia Byre talks intimate details about realising her purpose and how to get through the "4 am on the kitchen floor" moments.
Scarlett Yang envisions clothes as a circular living system
What does it mean to ditch usual fabrics and invent a new organic matter for clothes?
Karen Heshi: “Why must a suit look like a suit?”
The designer reflects on the tension between functionality and identification in her graduate collections.
Sarah Lim: “Clothing is meant to be worn.”
A down-to-earth approach to design ready to embrace an uncertain future.
Florentina Leitner: “Do we really need more fashion?”
The recent graduate on why fashion shouldn’t be forgotten during a pandemic, what fashion school doesn’t prepare you for and the importance of sparking joy with her creation.
Nico Verhaegen designs an ode to nomadic existence
An unusual parallel is drawn between shamans and bike messengers in Verhaegen’s recent graduate collection.
Catherine Hudson: The tension of displacement
The British designer wants to reflect the diasporic experience of the Rastafari subculture in her garments.
Dominic Huckbody: “We all love a show, don’t we?”
What happens when a graduate show is abruptly cancelled?
The unfunctional bags of Julie Kegels
When form does not quite follow function. A lesson in Belgian rebellion.
Sexual awakening materialised: the fantastic world of Juan Camilo Rodriguez’ countryside boy
The Colombian designer on imaginary dreamworlds that explore complex themes of self-discovery and sexuality
“I don’t really see myself as a fashion designer,” – Belgian artist Chris Lensz on mixing fashion design and photography
His graduate collection presented lots of tailoring and revolved around the concept of Victorian mourning
Katya Zelentsova on excessive knitwear and two-week trainrides
Embarking on a proverbial train journey to self-discovery, the London-based designer revisits her native Russia
Rin Choe on the artistry of pattern cutting and deconstructing Korean tradition
Choe fell into the industry unexpectedly, but in doing so, her collection aims to rewrite the traditions of her Korean heritage
Heidi meets Pablo Rousson
What would an encounter between alpine aesthetic and sensual men from the 80s look like?
Davina Amajor on multi-functional garments and overlooked materials
With her BA collection ‘90 Degrees’, Davina set out to recover the functionality and aesthetic value of worn fabrics that were once undesired, in order to prevent them from being disposed of
Orlando Yates’s jackets recall pre-COVID wild times at festivals
Menswear designer Orlando Yates on his sunrise-hued garments that were inspired by waking up at festivals
Shanghai-based designer Zheng Lu believes the future is mechanical
A collection about rebelling against industry norms, Zheng Lu’s search for a well-oiled fashion system led him to create workwear with his own spin on anti–fashion
Four top Recruiters’ advice to fashion graduates navigating the current job market
Tips and advice from fashion's top recruiters
Dance influences meet architectural details in designer Sun Mu Lee’s sporty garments
The South Korean designer works with body movements to transpose architecture into garments
Ellen Fowles: “Fashion is for everyone regardless of age or ability”
Meet the graduate breaking stigma with her functional yet affordable adaptive wear
Søs Christine Hejselbæk on 3D-printing away a carbon footprint
The designer discusses making photosynthetic sculptures for the body
Tatiana Ruinist’s nostalgia-threaded tracksuits
What happens when British and post-soviet style merge together?
Zitong Wang: In bloom
The Chinese designer is using distorted images of nature to redefine the codes of masculinity
Eleanor Chapman: The power of adapting
The British designer believes that modular garments are the future of sustainable fashion
Lykke Lund Rasmussen on uncovering memories through fashion
How much of us do we carry with us forever? ‘Memória’ challenges the identity of dress by creating a tactile dimension of captured recollections
Yamil Arbaje: Clothing as the Personal and Political
The Latin American designer merged personal and political history for his graduate collection, looking to working class aesthetics from his home country in the 1960s
Karolina Widecka and design by conspiracy theory
Her MA collection, ‘Where’s the Curve?’, focuses on conspiracy theories and the paranoia they provoke
Emma Gudmundson dives into the deep
A perfectionist designer learns to go with the flow
Freja Wesik, in praise of do-it-yourself
The designer waves goodbye to university with a rainbow tinted homage to DIY
Swiss designer Virginie Jemmely on shifting sartorial codes
Geneva graduate Virginie Jemmely subverts society’s archetypal figures by reinventing the traditional womenswear wardrobe
Joe Pearson presents Five Archetypal Men in One Collection
His work explores notions of masculinity that range from the elegant yet nonchalant appearance of the dandy to Mr Pearl’s corsets to the traditional businessman’s suit
Riding the Wave With Giorgia Galfré
From the paradoxical confines of her student flat in Antwerp, fashion graduate Giorgia Galfré defied the limitations of lockdown to create a unisex collection inspired by the freedom of surfing
Sofia Mollberg: “We musn’t shame vulnerability”
The Swedish designer is using her graduate collection to discuss the importance of body language and recognising the effects on mental health in the fashion industry
Jamie Sutherland and the magpie’s paradise
Mixing 16kg worth of scavenged Nitrous Oxide canisters and luxury essential ‘toilet paper’ together in a grad collection
Polly Henderson: Between authentic and synthetic
The British designer is inspired in her process by the art of manipulating reality in photography
Wake up fashion, sustainability still doesn’t mean anything
“The biggest issue with fashion is the mindset”: An interview with Blue Sandford
Fi Grew makes fashion without clothes
Photographing and collaging against the basic preconception of fashion
Kat Lau’s man: contemporary, unregulated and free like a bird
Inspired by theories on the relation between body and mind, London-based menswear designer Kat Lau creates lightweight functional pieces that are meant to last.
Kristian David’s bridge between the East and the West
Dancing the Chobi dressed in a Iraqi flag, the designer reappropriates elements of his heritage in his graduate collection
Sara Sofie Tallaksen on making Norwegian traditions modern
Old knit techniques meet upcycled barbie t-shirts to make a surprisingly sustainability-minded graduate collection
Lily Xu: Knitting Yourself Back Together
MA Knitwear graduate Lily Xu on tackling loss and loneliness through clothing
Keren Xu: a man laced up in corsetry
Through drape and corsetry, the Chinese menswear designer praises the power of being feminine.
Jessica Guzman on machine-knitting careful chaos
Can you manufacture the same garment differently every time? Jessica Guzman’s semi-elasticated knits say yes.
Sci-fi meets 50s French couture in Benji Nijenhuis’ collection of dystopian fantasies
Benji Nijenhuis on building narratives with a twisted sense of humour
Shanti Bell: Representing the Weight of Masculinity
The graduate’s BA collection, featuring woodwork sculptures and tailored menswear, was inspired by conversations with her brother
You Jung Kim: Imagining the Ideal through the Pregnant Male Cyborg
The designer created the ideal self-portrait of a human projected onto the gendered cyborg
Madelen Hoffmann Jensen: against the oppression of women’s bodies
A poetically personal debut from the Norwegian designer
“Clothes shouldn’t be for a one-time display,” – Chinese designer Yiwen Jia on practical fashion
The Japan-based fashion graduate developed many experimental techniques, while keeping her designs practical and wearable
Jisoo Jang wants to “make the future of the Earth happy” with her graduate collection
In an ode to her vase collection, Jisoo Jang’s graduate collection highlights the art of storytelling with an environmental conscious
Jaden Cho on Non-objects
The South Korean designer wants to redefine the role of couture in modern society
Pin Mirin: Shaping A New Beginning
The BA graduate on how clothing has helped her adapt to a new life, as she mourns her old one
For Zhuoran Li, the body is a blank canvas
How a leg surgery as a kid impacted the designer’s views for years to come
Imogen Shields’ highly saturated office space
Combining psychology and fashion the designer explores her love and hate for suited men
Wenhai Su on cross-cultural heritage and sustainable development
Expressing a fragmented impression of youth and culture, ‘Crystal Blinkers’ is an exploration of Wenhai’s multi-layered world.
How Annemarie Saric is making luxury available for all with her MA collection
The Austrian designer mirrored the streamlined shapes of concept cars, inspired by the beacons of future possibility for her graduate collection to highlight the power of the silhouette
Gender neutral swim-suiting from hybrid designer Cornelia Ferm
Context skewed fusion dressing; where swimwear and suiting meet
Vintage aficionado, Jiyong Kim, uses nature as a design device
What does it look like when nature becomes your greatest collaborator?
Dahee Kim on abandoning the rulebooks and challenging childhood oppression
The Korean designer explores the isolating group culture and name-calling from her schooling days into a collection that celebrates self-expression and individuality
Sabah Iqbal could be big in Pakistan
The BA Fashion Design Womenswear talks identity studies and turning down a house and a job
Xinyao Liang on subverting patriarchal norms
The BA Fashion graduate tells us about Chris Jordan’s albatrosses, staying off social media, and inventing new textile techniques
Charlotte Richard’s pixels and threads
The designer’s experience as a student, her digital graduate collection and her feelings about the fashion industry
Richard Wagner determined Callum Kamara’s fate
Talking with BA Fashion Design graduate Callum Kamara about space, the body, and finding peace in 2020
What does it mean to be relevant when fashion is not?
What values remain important when everything around us seems to fall apart?
Shuxuan Li’s womenswear speaks its own language
Based in New York, Chinese knitwear designer Shuxuan Li creates fitted yet loose womenswear that explores contrasts and tensions between artistic heritage and superficial modernity.
Lee Hurst wants to bring back the old-world charm in fashion
A traditionalist at heart, his tailoring methods mix the bygone era with a personal twist to create heirlooms to pass down generations
Beau Scarlett-Pitt on erotic identities, Savile Row-tailoring, and The Village People
“I’ve always said one of the reasons I got into fashion was because I’m tone-deaf and no one wanted to start a band with me.”
Kaiwen Shi: a trip in the real world fantasy
The New York based graduate brings the minutiae of everyday life into the fantastical realm, offering an amusing window into her design process
Domenic Roylance: countering the doom and gloom of 2020
An uplifting collection designed as a reaction to this year’s ongoing hardships
Hybridising fashion and objects through the work of Grace Ling
Grace Ling on eccentric elegance and intelligent femininity
