Representing the creative future

Opinion  –  Feb 2021

Are we tired of the big cities?

The dream of making it in a fashion capital is bursting as creatives make mental health their priority

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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

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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

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Masha Popova flies solo

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

Pause or Pay: Should students be able to pause their studies or get their money back during COVID?

Opinion  –  Jul 2020

Pause or Pay: Should students be able to pause their studies or get their money back during COVID?

The Pause or Pay campaign wants UAL to pause the courses or reimburse its students. Here are the thinking and the demands of the initiative

Designers  –  Mar 2020

Jude Ferrari: “Planning a show is like doing a bar mitzvah, sweet sixteen and wedding at the same time”

Having lost her job and relocated to her parents’ house because of coronavirus, CSM graduate Jude Ferrari is pinning her hopes on building her own brand

Designers  –  Mar 2020

Josephine Sidhu: Post-graduation growing pains

The CSM menswear graduate on childhood memories, see-through swimming costumes and adjusting to life outside the art school bubble while under lockdown.

Opinion  –  Sep 2019

He said, she said, they said

Professional commentators, fashion students and members of the public reflect on six defining shows from London Fashion Week

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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

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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

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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

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Hybridising fashion and objects through the work of Grace Ling

Grace Ling on eccentric elegance and intelligent femininity