23Feb2012
We caught up with Camilo Echeverri and Giovanni Martins – two graduates from the 2011 MA Fashion Photography cohort – who exhibited at the Future Map exhibition.
17Feb2012
Joseph Turvey's collection on the catwalk at the MA show. Image: Chris Moore / Catwalking.com
London Fashion Week officially begins today and is a highlight of the international fashion calendar. This season promises to be another stand out year for LCF’s incredibly talented alumni who are debuting or returning to showcase their collections to the fashion elite.
Here we bring you a roundup of the freshest LCF talent breaking into the fashion industry at London Fashion Week February 2012, including MA_12 designers who showed a matter of weeks ago in the beautiful surroundings of the V&A and Victoria House who have already been snapped up to showcase their graduate collections.
09Feb2012
Charlotte Simpson's collection on the catwalk at the MA Show. Image: Chris Moore/ Catwalking.com
Vauxhall Fashion Scout, the internationally recognised home of new talent has announced today it has snapped up three London College of Fashion MA_12 graduates for their forthcoming AW12/13 season.
Joseph Turvey, Charlotte Simpson and Christina Hamilton will present their collections with Vauxhall Fashion Scout at LFW later this month, after only showcasing their work as part of the LCF MA_12 Season just a week ago.
Joseph Turvey, MA Fashion Design Technology – Menswear has been selected as part of the line up for Ones to Watch MEN, while Fellow MA Fashion Design Technology – Womenswear graduate Charlotte Simpson and MA Fashion Artefact graduate and winner of the Leathersellers’ Company Business Start Up Award Christina Hamilton have both been selected for the AW12/13 presentation, where their collections will be presented to international fashion press, industry and buyers.
Joseph Turvey's collection on the catwalk at the MA show. Image: Chris Moore / Catwalking.com
Specifically tailored to the men’s market on LFW’s dedicated Menswear day, Ones To Watch MEN is a collaborative platform for four of the hottest new talents, selected by panel of industry experts. This season the Judging Panel included Katy England, Holly Shackleton Editor of i-D, Jessica Bumpus of Vogue.com, Style Bubble’s Susie Lau, Marios Schwab, Felder Felder, David Koma Hanna Emslie from Selfridges Zara Martin for Village Bicycle, Rebekah Roy, and Vauxhall Fashion Scout´s Founder and Director Martyn Roberts.
Martyn Roberts, Founder of Vauxhall Fashion Scout commented:
This season, the selection of Ones To Watch MEN is an enthusing, stimulating line up of new names. The hugely successful launch of the Ones To Watch MEN initiative at London Fashion Week has seen great talents, including T.Lipop, Baartmans and Siegel and Asger Juel Larsen launch their labels into the rapidly evolving menswear market. OTW MEN is a powerful vehicle promoting, supporting and presenting to the industry new names.
Christina Hamilton's saddlery designs displayed on a bicyle
Joseph, Charlotte and Christina join fellow LCF graduates William Tempest, Ada Zanditon, Nova Chiu, Baartmans and Siegel, Young Lilee, Asger Juel Larson and Jennifer Morris – all of whom have been selected by Vauxhall Fashion Scout over the last couple of years for their pioneering programme which offers unique showcasing opportunities via catwalk shows, salon shows, presentations or exhibitions, whilst also offering the designers business support and sponsorship opportunities.
02Feb2012
Stine Riis, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear 2011 graduate has won the H&M design award. The award was announced at Stockholm’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week yesterday.
05Jan2012
Little Mix wearing spiked shoulder pieces by Nikita Karizma
Recent BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development graduate Nikita Karizma created the outfits that Little Mix wore for their winning performance.
Nikita was scouted by the X Factor costume team from her profile on University of the Arts London portfolio site Showtime. Since being selected to join the team she has been creating pieces for the X Factor finals under the guidance of Laury Smith. Nikita’s highlights included creating a baby pink dress from her graduate collection for Amelia Lily, designing spiked shoulder pieces for Little Mix and producing 28 silver harnesses for dancers which were worn at the final.
Amelia Lily wearing a specially commissioned piece from Nikita's graduate collection
Speaking about her experience, Nikita revealed:
It was an absolute pleasure working with Laury Smith and the X Factor team. We fitted Amelia’s dress onto her right before she walked onto the stage and watched her perform from her dressing room, a moment in time that a young designer will never forget. Thank you so much for the support and I look forward to sharing many more fashion memories with you all.
BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles graduate Sanna Naapuri was also featured when Misha wore an oil print velvet cape and leggings from her A/W 2011 collection.
Misha B wearing Sanna Naapuri Autumn/Winter 2011
04Oct2011
Work from Janice Rosenberg's Showtime profile
Work from Janice Rosenberg's Showtime profile
Janice Rosenberg who graduated from the BA (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear in July 2011 was selected to show at BRITISH-ISH an exhibition at the B&A in the British Galleries. The exhibition was curated by Giles Deacon and was part of the London Design Festival.
04Oct2011
LCF’s 2011 award winner for Contemporary Journalism, Emma McCarthy, has secured a job as the new fashion writer at the Evening Standard. Her first article Customers are calling the shots now on fashion focused on crowd-sourcing, a growing trend in which consumers are invited to shape the creative process. The article featured MA Design Management for the Fashion Industries alumna Rachel Cosford, who founded the company Connected Generation, which lets customers decide which of its designs will go into production through an online vote.
22Sep2011
Find out which pieces our guests coveted and what they would wear them with. COLLEGE SHOP is open until 28th September - Unit 1.3 Kingly Court, London, W1
Filmed and edited by Emma Gunnery and Kim Maninno – MA Fashion Media Production students.
12Sep2011
A short film from the launch night of the LCF COLLEGE SHOP where you can by affordable one-off pieces. Open until 28th September.
08Aug2011
Beatrix Ong collects her MBE at the Palace. Image: Vogue.com
Beatrix Ong, a Cordwainers College alumna, was bestowed the honour of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Queen’s New Year Honours list for her services to the fashion industry.
After graduating from LCF in 2000 Beatrix became Jimmy Choo’s creative director of couture aged just 22 and launched her own label in 2002.
Beatrix wore Stella McCartney and a Phillip Treacy creation – read about her experiences at the palace on Vogue.com.
