CSM BA graduate show 2018: full line-ups
Last year, we were questioning the purpose of designing clothes. With Brexit looming and an orange at the White House, fashion suddenly didn’t feel as important. “Why create?” On Wednesday, a new...
View ArticleNew Waves: Talia Lipkin-Connor
Britain was once famed for its fruitful fabrics trade; but today, few mills remain, and those who do often only produce high-priced couture fabrics. “I think it’s really important to keep those trades...
View ArticleNew Waves: Sam Chester
BA graduate Sam Chester aims to eradicate binary structures and prolong the life of dying craft-skills. As a gender non-conforming individual, they are always looking for neutral spaces, which is why...
View ArticleDeconstructing power relations with Johanna-Maria Parv
“You’re building your language of images, and hoping that other people will understand the way you see things. Like writing a book, except visual.” The discussion of power relations is an incredibly...
View ArticleNew Waves: Abigail Ezimako
Since the start of her collection, Abigail Ezimako knew that she wanted to make it personal. Bringing her intimate and emotional experience into the project, she felt the need to voice her fresh...
View ArticleNew Waves: Yoonki Sander Yoo
Yoonki Sander Yoo does not hide her exhaustion with the hustle and bustle of London life while sitting across from me drinking an iced Americano in the café outside Central Saint Martins. Like most...
View ArticleNew Waves: Jordan Dalah
If anyone exemplifies the notion that the artist is separate from the art, it is Jordan Dalah. Sitting by the Granary Square fountains in the sweltering summer heat, the Australian designer looks...
View ArticleNew Waves: James Crewe
James Crewe’s journey to his graduate collection has been inspired by his lifelong love of Lee McQueen, an obsession with collecting vintage catwalk clothing, modelling antics and panic, which all led...
View ArticleNew Waves: Kitty Garratt
Biology, culture, and social coding no longer confine the expectations of the roles men and women occupy. Gender is not a new topic in fashion but it is rarely approached in the right way. So let’s...
View ArticleNew Waves: Kevin Germanier
When I first met Kevin at his home in Angel one sunny afternoon, I was delighted to see the perfectly placed boxes of beads stacked high upon the windowsill, towering above an amazing view of North...
View ArticleNew Waves: Nathan Korn
Sadness and heartbreak don’t always have to be dull and drab, according to CSM >Fashion Print graduate Nathan Korn. His collection was inspired by a guy who is feeling down, but changes his...
View ArticleNew Waves: Thomas Sehne
Taking inspiration from classic tailoring techniques, Thomas Sehne considered his immediate surroundings in London to build a concept that challenges classic menswear in contemporary culture. Closely...
View ArticleNew Waves: Matt Dyer
Discourses about fashion education have been stirring the pot lately, some question its value, some critique its methods and many are concerned with life as a graduate. Packed, processed and stamped...
View ArticleNew Waves: Sheryn Akiki
Even weeks after the Central Saint Martins Press Show, the powerful work of Sheryn Akiki has not lost its momentum. The L’Oréal Prize winning collection appropriates and redefines the meaning of...
View ArticleNew Waves: Goom Heo
Goom Heo began her final collection with a risk. Having completed three years at Central Saint Martins as a womenswear designer on BA Print, she suddenly switched to men’s. “I felt like I needed...
View ArticleCentral Saint Martins BA Fashion 2017: full line-ups
Martin Tual – Knitwear @martintual Daydreamer Martin Tual can’t even go to the supermarket without wondering about potential sci-fi dystopias. His graduate collection started with the idea of an...
View ArticleCentral Saint Martins BA Fashion 2017
Why create? In the contemporary political climate, choosing art education can feel superfluous, naive, even selfish. Neoliberal conservatism leads us to believe that being a creative means living...
View ArticleNew Waves: Susang Hwang
‘Masculinity’ is one of those slippery topics within the fashion industry: how to define it? One possible start could be by trying to not fit it into a rigorous box, labelling it as such as such....
View ArticleNew Waves: Seulki Sue Lee
In the BA Fashion graduate collections, one can find such a breadth of ideas: from prison-born kids to baked skirts, tent-structures and buried garments, the realm of possibilities is as far as the...
View ArticleNew Waves: Ruihong Harry Xu
Ruihong Harry Xu offers us a fresh take on life within prison: that of life having started right there. This is not Orange is the New Black – his graduate collection took its sole inspiration from a...
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