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A Bubble to Escape the Boring School Life- Ming Ma on Fashion
Go and search ‘Lady Gaga interview BBC Breakfast 2013‘ on YouTube. You will see her in gigantic hair with seashells and, more importantly, Ming Ma’s BA graduate show piece. After finishing his BA, Ming...
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Tigran Avetisyan: Finding Your Own Way of Saying “NO”
[twocol_one_first]CSM students and graduates are probably most well-known for their rebellious attitude towards fashion, or simply everything in life. After producing one of the most memorable...
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Ephemeral Architecture: Alve Lagercrantz’s Diaphanous Mobile Territories
Swedish womenswear student, Alve Lagercrantz, produced a final collection that caught the eyes and imaginations of those watching this year’s degree show. Titling his collection ‘Principality of...
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Leaving Her Stamp on London Fashion Week: Carrie-Ann Stein at the Graduate...
Imagine holding a postcard in your hand, vividly portraying a vibrant seaside town in the north of England. Now, magnify it immensely and visualise an actual person wearing said postcard on an actual...
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Jewon Jay Lee’s skating hunters
We cannot explain how fashion works. Or as Professor Louise Wilson OBE puts it in this Guardian interview: “How does it work? How do you lick a cock!” What we can show you here at 1 Granary, however,...
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Backstage at the Central Saint Martins BA Graduate Fashion Show 2014
Key words that were overheard among the crowd after last night’s BA Fashion press show: ‘sparkle! sparkle!’, ‘a lot of Galliano…’, ‘- raw beauty!’. A show opened by Matthew Harding, attended by Grayson...
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Central Saint Martins BA Fashion Graduate Show 2014
“One of Louise’s famous quotations – or rather, her ‘quotable quotations’ – was something like, “Students can be a real pain, but it’s always a privilege to be amongst youth.” And I’m sure that after...
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Richard Quinn: Creator of Cracked Couture
Creator of ‘cracked couture,’ and teller of frayed fairytales: the screen printing of Fashion Print graduate Richard Quinn would undoubtedly make it onto the big screens. The young designer – who...
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Newly Qualified Wunderkind: Ed Lee’s ‘Crafty’ Avenue to Graduation
Steeped with themes of romanticism to suits reminiscent of Bowie’s Thin White Duke, Ed Lee’s work combines the use of motif with drapery and a colour palette of earthy tones, ballasted with a river of...
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HASHTAG SILLY
You don’t frequently see students figuratively ditching their writing course to go and do something completely different, like hands-on styling. However, Lou’ana Carron - who’s going into her second...
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Krystina Kozhoma: cyborg sexy
“I love vintage Versace. Donnatella tries to revive the eighties, when Gianni had great concepts, but it seems misplaced, it’s not new or fresh. When I now think about a Versace woman, I would see her...
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Daisy Collingridge: CSM Dreams
What did your tutors say when you first presented your ideas for the final collection? The first line up was a bit of a wake up call to me. The collection changed significantly after that. Got bigger,...
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Inside the Central Saint Martins Fashion Studios
The Central Saint Martins graduate shows will happen in less than one month… What are the final year BA Fashion Design students working on? What fabrics are they using for their collections, which will...
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FABIAN BREDT: BRINGING DEMOCRACY TO FASHION, ONE BOMBER JACKET AT A TIME
As the only German pursuing his bachelor degree in ‘Textile and Fashion’ at The Hague’s Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Fabian Bredt presented his graduate collection in fluent Dutch. He spoke with no...
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New Waves: Catherine Whang
Korean-born, Canada-raised BA Fashion graduate Catherine Whang studied the aesthetics of Amish adolescence for her final collection — that is, Amish adolescence gone drinking in Las Vegas. A skilled...
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The cyclic nature of addicts: New Waves, Lee Bodkin
Lee Bodkin originates from Glasgow, Scotland, from where he pursued his creative ambitions until reaching the guilded halls of Central Saint Martins. He developed his graduate collection through...
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Quad Bike Glamour, New Waves: Tingzhi Liu
Since childhood, Central Saint Martins graduate Tingzhi Liu, originally from Singapore, has loved dressing up. She mixes personal memories and fashion-historical research as she constructs voluptuous...
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Towards Maximalist Menswear – New Waves: Wataru Tominaga
Transitioning to Central Saint Martin’s BA Fashion Print was not particularly violent to Wataru Tominaga. Originally from Japan, he had previously studied in two different design schools, and finds...
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LIFE BY THE SEA – New Waves: NATHAN MOY
Nathan Moy is easily recognised for his incredibly fashionable exterior. He helped making an outfit for Beyonce while interning at Alexander Wang, and for his graduate collection, he presented a...
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THE FASHION OF GENTRIFICATION – NEW WAVES: DANIEL W. FLETCHER
As a part of the first batch coming out of Central Saint Martins’ King’s Cross campus, the charismatic Daniel W. Fletcher designed a menswear collection that discussed the recent development of...
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