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Wearable Walls – New Waves: Claudia Girbau Pina
Spanish-born CSM BA Fashion Design and Marketing graduate Claudia Girbau Pina approaches her designs as architectural experiments, describing her garments as “jackets, worn by a person, but buttoned to...
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6,000 stitches – New Waves: Rebecca Jeffs
The Mancunian Central Saint Martins graduate Rebecca Jeffs almost had a nervous breakdown when she enrolled at Central Saint Martins, but found the “blood, sweat and tears” of the Womenswear pathway...
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AN EXERCISE IN TOILING – NEW WAVES: Robert Wallace
Robert Wallace has a straight-to-the-point approach to his fashion design without too much focus on concept, concentrating instead on the precision and cleanliness of his toiling, which his graduate...
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Issue 3 — First Step: The CSM BA Fashion graduates of 2015
London Fashion Week’s schedule may be ‘murderous’ because of its amount of shows, presentations, and events, but never before has there been a time where so much young talent got together to show their...
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Central Saint Martins BA Fashion 2016
In an industry that seems to be led, according to several fashion design students, by merchandisers who rule with spreadsheets and figures, experiencing the BA Fashion graduate show gives hopeful...
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This year, like last year, the Central Saint Martins BA Fashion Press show was not the whole picture: it consisted of less than half the collections made by the graduating class. On West Handyside...
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New Waves: Sergey Grechka
Earlier this month, Ukrainian designer Sergey Grechka opened the Central Saint Martins BA Fashion Press Show. He presented a heavily introspective graduate collection, the story of which travels back...
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New Waves: Yuhan Wang
Using development techniques that aim to question the social perceptions of ‘normality’, Yuhan Wang’s interest in the abstract self surfaces through lingerie finishings, bagged out linings and...
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New Waves: Aya Takeshima
Inspired by a smocked children’s dress, with a family history that goes back nearly 60 years, Aya Takeshima created her final collection based on an imagined narrative composed by the journey of her...
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New Waves: Imogen Wright
Aiming to create long lasting, wearable and classical pieces, Imogen Wright’s graduate collection takes off in a personal exploration of women’s wardrobes. Feeling disillusioned about the relevance of...
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New Waves: Paula Canovas del Vas
Applying a philosophy of embracing hazards and unexpected errors, Paula Canovas del Vas has come to master the technique of incorporating accidents and unforeseen blunders into her work. Rather than...
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New Waves: Joanna Melbourne
In her final collection, Joanna Melbourne questions the ways in which people project sexuality onto non-sexual things. Beginning with an abstract concept, she managed to narrow down her research by...
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New Waves: Ernesto Naranjo
Re-constructing traditional stereotypes of Spanish culture – a visual area far off from his taste – Ernesto Naranjo was determined to work with a theme outside his own aesthetic comfort zone for his...
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New Waves: Gerrit Jacob
When Gerrit Jacob graduated from Central Saint Martins’ BA Womenswear course this summer, he did so with an ode to German suburban trash culture. “It all started with the idea of the suburb often being...
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New Waves: Deanna Fanning
Have you ever witnessed glamorous evening dresses being made in your grandmother’s garage? Not every kid will say they have had such an experience, but current MA Fashion student Deanna Fanning surely...
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Sergey Grechka: cannibalism, ripping flesh and delicate womenswear
The semi-transparent dresses of Central Saint Martins BA Fashion graduate Sergey Grechka have such presence in real life, with soft shapes protruding from each design, yet they take on a whole new...
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New Waves: Angela Chiang
Having a vase of withering flowers in a room is believed to bring bad health, and some of Taiwan’s older hospital buildings don’t have a 4th floor as the word has the same pronunciation as death....
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New Waves: Camilla Mecacci
Know that feeling when you see a garment and you’re really quite uncertain of how it was made? Camilla Mecacci’s BA Fashion graduate collection gives rise to this feeling of inquiry. How exactly are...
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New Waves: Soyoung Park
What would we look like if we could watch each other from a bird’s eye view? That’s what Soyoung Park wanted to explore through her final collection, which plays with the hypothesis of looking at...
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New Waves: Adnan Salman Jalal
One of Central Saint Martins’ most funky graduate collections this year? Adnan Salman Jalal’s ‘love letter to Gandhi’ – a pre-celebration of India’s 70 years of independence which will take place next...
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