Lovro Lukić crafts Yugoslavian blankets into couture pieces
“I don’t care about your expensive, gorgeous embroidery”
Thomas Clément wants more craftsmanship in fashion design
Can design mistakes be glamorous?
Fashion is an exercise in extroversion for Esther Vervliet
Shyness is an asset for the observant designer, who materialises the elusive emotion
Ruben Arnaldo Gollin is defending opulence
Does fashion need to appeal to the masses?
Giorgio Natti Raineri uses fashion to heal, cure, and rethink masculinity
Repairing the inevitable fracture
Thelma Gunnarsdóttir's Threads of Tranquillity
A journey of crafting fashion through crochet and knitting
Yue Kong’s enviromentally responsible minimalism
Turning avant-garde art into a fashion language
Maxime Van De Wiele: Retaliation Against the Mundane
Brussels’ art scene through the lens of fashion
Romane Glandier channels the brutality and chaos of Paris
Making the horror and beauty of Paris wearable
Lottie Robinson is stitching worlds together
Fusing workwear and tailoring to paint a portrait of men
Maya Rutland Envisions Fashion As Wearable Art
Experimental materials combined with innovative shapes blur the lines between art and fashion
Chloe Johnson contextualises the history of slavery through design
Clothing as a symbol of individuality and a tool to repress and punish
Towards a slower fashion with Susana Pugliese
Can fashion embroideries narrate stories?
Finnerty Mackay on crafting kink
“My clothes are not for the people who look at you, they’re for you."
Wooni Jeong’s designs speak of introspection and team spirit
Can fashion put an end to its competitiveness?
Finding inclusivity in embroidery with Angelica Ellis
Why are young designers staying away from craft-focused jobs?
Jill Jiayue wants to dismantle gender norms one design at a time
Turning vintage menswear pieces into womenswear
Alba Mas Amoros on Time Management in Fashion Design
Do fashion designers underestimate the power of rest and reflection?
Aaron Hüttenmeister turns perfume bottles into clothes
The graduate designer’s work may be subversive, but his attitude is pragmatic
Victoria Lebrun is designing through storytelling
"We're crying today, but tomorrow we'll be fine."
Car Design Crashes Into Tim Stolte’s Couture
An exploration of the female body’s objectification in couture
Violette des Roseaux doesn’t believe in uniqueness
Fashion schools appraise talent, the industry hard work. How can a young designer find balance?
Ivan Delogu’s modern take on Sardinian traditions
From growing up in a small city to the harsh reality of navigating fashion in London
Izzy McKinlay: Where sculpture meets sportswear
An ode to Australian landscapes through unconventional materials
Bryan Yeo’s designs are absorbed by circles
Obsessed with circles since his childhood, the designer used the shape to fuel his creativity
Cezary Zalit on coming up with your own plan for a creative career
Exploring why it is important to keep in touch with reality to make wearable clothes
Clover Nash is turning art into fashion prints
With her collection ‘Welcome home’, the print designer is healing her inner child
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
Richard Wagner determined Callum Kamara’s fate
Talking with BA Fashion Design graduate Callum Kamara about space, the body, and finding peace in 2020
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
Tatiana Ruinist’s nostalgia-threaded tracksuits
What happens when British and post-soviet style merge together?
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?
Dominic Huckbody: “We all love a show, don’t we?”
What happens when a graduate show is abruptly cancelled?
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
Sabah Iqbal could be big in Pakistan
The BA Fashion Design Womenswear talks identity studies and turning down a house and a job
Freja Wesik, in praise of do-it-yourself
The designer waves goodbye to university with a rainbow tinted homage to DIY
Fi Grew makes fashion without clothes
Photographing and collaging against the basic preconception of 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
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
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.
Jay Juyeon Lee: Measurements are subjective
The South Korean designer is celebrating the physicality of the human figure.
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
Cilka Sadar: From Olympic slopes to Archigram dresses
Former Olympic snowboarder Cilka Sadar talks about how her snowboarding and the 60s space-age obsession that inspired her collection
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
What does it mean to be relevant when fashion is not?
What values remain important when everything around us seems to fall apart?
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
