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Designers To Hire

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

Designers To Hire

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

Central Saint Martins  –  Oct 2020

This is how studying fashion design really looks for the class of 2021

9 Central Saint Martins’ final year fashion design students share how the classes are run, how “blended learning” works, and how much they miss being stressed together..

Fashion Educators  –  Oct 2020

Adam Murray on fashion communication and the importance of looking outside the big capitals

The MA Fashion Image and BA Fashion Communication and Promotion pathway leader at CSM shares his career journey and gives advice to aspiring image-makers

Is Fashion Education ignoring Disability?

Central Saint Martins  –  Oct 2020

Is fashion education ignoring disability?

CSM BA Fashion Communication and Promotion graduate Saskia Rowlands created a documentary that explores the significant lack of disability representation in the fashion industry

Fashion work placements during the pandemic

Central Saint Martins  –  Sep 2020

What is happening with fashion design work placements during the pandemic?

8 Central Saint Martins’ Fashion Design students on the challenges of interning during a global pandemic, the disparity between small brands and big houses, and the futility of fashion

are you too old to make it in fashion?

Opinion  –  Sep 2020

Are you too old to make it in fashion?

As fashion graduates have to live up to unfeasible career paths, established designers face ageism in an industry infatuated with youth

Rubber Time Journal: A lifestyle magazine about the joy of downtime created by CSM Fashion Communication students

Fashion Image  –  Jul 2020

A lifestyle magazine about the joy of downtime created by CSM Fashion Communication students

CSM FCP students, Pie Sutithon and Deborah Wangsaputri on how they created Rubbertime Journal and the notion of relaxing

Decolonising the arts curriculum: Thoughts on Higher Education

Opinion  –  Jul 2020

Decolonising the arts curriculum: Thoughts on Higher Education

Former UAL education officer Anita Israel shares her thoughts on systemic racism and how art universities have a long way to cross towards anti-racism

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?

Opinion  –  May 2020

Why are students leaving fashion education?

The potential of losing a generation of designers in relation to graduates and independent brands is widely discussed, but what about those at the start of their education?

How to  –  Apr 2020

How to hold a fashion show in lockdown

We spoke to Christina Seewald, who after the cancellation of her physical show in Vienna, will be launching her FW20/21 collection via Instagram TV