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.

• Read more about Vauxhall Fashion Scout: Ones to Watch MEN
• Read more about the LCF MA_12 season

We caught up with the front row of our 2012 MA Show on the importance of new talent, the rise of live streaming and how important LCF is to the industry. Lauren Laverne, Grayson Perry, Susie Bubble and more share their thoughts on another exciting crop of graduates for LCF.

• Produced and edited by Nicholas Smith and Karyee Cheung – BA Fashion Journalism students

We spoke to staff, students, press and industry guests at the Private View of our MA_12 exhibition at Victoria House Basement.

• Produced and edited by Nicholas Smith and Karyee Cheung – BA Fashion Journalism students

Last night’s MA Catwalk Show 2012 had a packed audience including the Rt Hon Home Secretary Theresa May MP. Beamed live across the world on the LCF website and award winning website Not Just A Label, this years’ menswear and womenswear designers took to the catwalk.

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This year, we are once again launching a search for people like YOU (male and female) to model in photoshoots, fashion films and walk the runway in one of the highest profile graduate showcases in the UK: our BA runway show on 28 June.

We love individuality, we love image, we love uniqueness, we just want to see more of it in the fashion industry – we know things are changing but we’re not willing to wait – our students are the fashion industry of tomorrow. We say homogeneous fashion images are for the faint hearted. We will create events and editorials that are alive and reflect how much London College of Fashion loves fashion and loves the people that make it happen. To do this we need YOU.

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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.

• View Nikita’s Showtime profile to find out more.
• View Nikita’s website

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

• View Sanna’s Showtime profile to find out more
• View Sanna’s blog

• The exhibition Carmen: A Life in Fashion is open at The Fashion Space Gallery until 14th January 2012
• Read more about the opening event on the LCF news blog

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.

• Read the full article
• Watch an interview with Rachel Cosford from her final exhibition
• BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism course information
• MA Design Management for the Fashion Industries course information

Recent graduates from the FdA Fashion Retail Branding and Visual Merchandising course have been working with Jamie Shouli at Nicole Farhi on a launch scheme for London Fashion week at their brand new store on Conduit Street. Designer Daniel Purnell, who has just graduated from LCF, is one of many fresh talents emerging from this course.

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Photograph by Alex Maguire.

COLLEGE SHOP – FLASH SALE WITH 30% OFF EVERYTHING TOMORROW ONLY!

To celebrate the last day of London College of Fashion’s first ever pop up retail space, COLLEGE SHOP will be holding a FLASH SALE with 30% off ALL items in store for ONE day only. Doors opens at 11.00 am so start sharpening those elbows!

COLLEGE SHOP has been open for the past three weeks and has received a phenomenal amount of interest from buyers keen to pick up unique pieces designed by LCF’s legion of multi talented graduates including design stars William Tempest, Ada Zanditon, Hasan Hejazi and Beatrice Boyle.

If you haven’t yet had a chance to get down to COLLEGE SHOP, tomorrow’s FLASH SALE will be your final opportunity to snap up beautiful one-off pieces in womenswear, menswear, footwear and accessories as well as framed and unframed fashion photography prints and illustrations. All at a bargainous 30% off – so what are you waiting for?

COLLEGE SHOP will be open from 11.00 – 19.00 and is located on the first floor of Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street, London W1.