Jennifer Yan II

Jennifer Yan's Knit project.

Jennifer Yan

Jennifer Yan's experiments in Jersey, fluid and elegant. Jennifer was born in China and raised in Sweden and has recently graduated from London Central St Martins.
"In a world where pickled herring meets marinated chicken feet on the dinner table, the contrasts adds depth and colour to life. Thus a childhood of contrasting cultures, though at times oddly complementing, envisions a world of multiple perspectives, numerous possibilities and limitless imagination." Jennifer Yan
What ever life throws at you cast it into the stew of your creative work it will always yield results, often unexpected and deeply rewarding.

Vlisco's Dazzling Graphic's Range

Stunning visual merchandising for Dutch textile company by Vlisco's Dazzling Graphics range, Art direction was by Anne Krull, you can see the startling promotional video here.

Kana Shirouchi

Kana Shirouchi's project on constructing body space, is visually and conceptually very intriguing. Kana has just graduated from London Central St Martins and is originally from Japan.

HND Fashion Design and Manufacture Show

4 HND Fashion Design and Manufacture students Amber Barclay, Kat Valentine, Miranda Williamson and Fiona McLennan had a very successful show at Picante, Glenrothes last night to showcase their final pieces. There was a wide variety of garments showcased from dynamic dancewear, elegant daywear and dramatic eveningwear. A good time was had by all.

Fashion Curriculum Head Christine Robson said, " The fashion lecturing staff are extremely proud of the students who planned and organised the show in conjunction with Lisa Bray from Picante. They worked hard as a team to make the event a success and dealt well with problems to be solved in what was a fairly complex show. This is excellent learning for the competitive world of fashion after graduation. The students personalities shone in their collections and really showed us creativity at its best."
photography by Walter Nelson.

Two fashion shows on one night . . . Fife fashion week?

Last night we had two fashion shows from Adam Smith College students simultaneously in Fife, both were a great success.

Here are some of the images from The Abbey Hotel Fashion Show. This was a charity event organised by HND Events Management Students. It was wonderful, how so many different departments from the college collaborated to make this such a successful evening.

I am looking forward to seeing the HND's show.

Thank you to everyone for all your work and enthusiasm.

"After all who's going to do laundry in space?" 2

Today's pictures have been added to yesterday's WOW!

"After all who's going to do laundry in space?" 1

Today was the first photo shoot of NC Fashion student's paper dresses. These dresses were designed with washing powder themes because of the statement a textile designer made in the 1960's, "After all who's going to do laundry in space?".
It has been a great project thank you, to all who took part. Tomorrow I will post the next batch of work and images.

Alessia Xoccato II

I am revisiting the portfolio of Alessia Xoccato, I love her simple but challenging, lines and her combinations of fabrics and the visual density and translucence of her clothes. I think they are great inspiration for the NC business portfolio's.

Alessia's work is about "the obsessive study of shapes and volumes, of the body with space, of movement and proportions. An experimental approach to the manufacturing of the item, in the selection of fabrics and their treatment, and the refined choice of colours."

A F Vandevorst

Amazing tailoring from A F Vandevorst a collaborative company formed by An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx.

Alessia Xoccato III

Here Alessia's use of translucent fabrics has revealed the tailoring and molding of the garments form.

Maryam Kordbacheh

Maryam Kordbacheh designs the most feminine clothes, pleated like flower petals. She graduated from the Fashion Institute, Arnhem.

"I see clothing as a three-dimensional object, and yet I find the two-dimensional patterns equally interesting. i mould and rediscover my own patterns, attaining a perfect result has never been my starting point. Experimentation, problem solving and searching for a personal way to realise my designs are most important to me." Maryam Kordbacheh (thanks)

Yohji Yamamoto

Lines, shapes and style from Yohji Yamamoto who sculpts clothes that can be worn with easy elegance. Clothes for that the wearer wears, not that wear the wearer. You can see a retrospective of Yohji Yamamoto's work's at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London until 10th July 2011.

Emotionally Considerate Design

This week with see the Edinburgh College Of Art Fashion Show. The show will feature the final collections of 20 graduating students from Fashion and Performance Costume. This year there will also be three new labels launched by graduating students as part of the 'All walks on the Catwalk' project. This project was established by Caryn Franklin, Debra Borne and Erin O'Connor. The objective of the project is to encourage a more diverse ideal of beauty within fashion, celebrating diversity and promoting 'Emotionally Considerate design' where fashion designers consider the emotional needs of the wearer. The students were assigned a 'icon' woman whom they had to get to know before specifically designing a dress that meets their needs. The 'Icon' women are different sizes and ages and one is pregnant and they will all be modeling the bespoke creations in this upcoming cat walk.

Hussein Chalayan's Bubble dress

Hussein Chalayan is a designer who crosses genres of design, embraces new technology and plays. He plays with fashion making incredible silhouettes, innovation and beauty. Hussein Chalayan's work is fashion yes! but is is also technology, design and fine art; whilst being political, starting and controversial.

Rusli Tjohnardi

Rushi Tjohnardi is an Indonesian Fashion designer, these are some of his designs from his Spring 2009 collection made from transparent plastic.