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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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.

• Read more about the H&M Design Award

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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2011 saw LCF’s first search for individuality and uniqueness for the BA Catwalk shows. 300 people registered their interest to take part and out of those 20 models were chosen for the BA Catwalk Show.

We caught up a few of the models and some of them have since been selected for other graduate shows, House of Fraser, Milan Fashion week and GQ magazine!

Siobhan Ridguard - casting to catwalk

Siobhan Ridguard decided to enter after seeing the content of previous LCF shows:

I was awe-struck by the artistry of the designers, production that had gone into the show and the standard of models … Since the casting I have had the privilege to work with LCF again on a shoot promoting the new academic year and I’ve been selected for the Central St Martins first year show, worked for Romero Bryan, Bastyan and House of Fraser to name but a few.

Siobhan wore collections by Chi Chi Luo.

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Stine Riis, a 2011 BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear graduate, has been named as the UK finalist of the H&M Design Award 2012, for which she wins €5,000. Stine now joins finalists from five other countries to compete for the global H&M Design Award prize of €50,000, and the chance to show the winning collection at Stockholm’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Stine’s collection was chosen by a jury of British fashion experts, who praised Stine for the maturity and modernity of her designs.

Speaking of the experience Stine said:

It’s very exciting. There are so many talented students in Britain, so for me to be chosen to represent the UK is a really big deal. My dream is to start my own label, and getting selected for this competition gives me the confidence to keep going. It’s a really great experience from which I can learn so much.

Ann-Sofie Johansson, H&M’s head of design commented:

Stine really stood out because her collection was really modern. It had a good balance between somethingthat felt new, but at the same time was also really commercial, and you just wanted to have it. She showedvery good craftsmanship, and lots of ideas in one collection. It was very strong.

The H&M Design Award is a new annual initiative to support and encourage the future stars of fashion. BA graduates from fourteen fashion schools have competed to be the finalist for six countries, who will then be judged by a grand jury for the overall prize. In the UK, students from Central Saint Martins, Brighton School of Architecture and Design and London College of Fashion were judged by a panel which included Emma Sells of Elle.co.uk; Cat Callender of The Daily; Gareth Scourfield of Esquire, H&M’s Head of Design Ann-Sofie Johansson and Chloe Bowers, UK Public Relations Manager for H&M.

• View Stine’s Showtime profile
• Read more about the H&M Design Awards
• Check out the behind the scenes catwalk interviews
• Read coverage on Elle

Two LCF students are currently taking part in the Sri Lankan reality show Ideators. The reality TV show competition brings together six undergraduates from the UK and six from Sri Lanka. The contestants are mixed up and divided into two teams. Each team is given a challenging business task that they must complete within a given time-frame. Week by week the contestants will get whittled down from the losing team until the last-standing contestant walks home with the coveted title ‘British Council IDEATOR’.

The British Council partnered with 14 leading organisations in Sri Lanka and 10 UK and Sri Lankan educational institutes to deliver ‘IDEATORS’, which provides an interactive learning platform to its contestants and viewers.

One of  the LCF students Lara Caxton (MA Fashion Entrepreneurship) has previously been to India to study fast fashion.

LCF GRADUATE FAIR
Friday 18th November
10am – 5pm
RHS, Centre and West Space

This event is aimed at final year London College of Fashion students and will provide an opportunity to talk to graduate recruiters directly about opportunities within their organisation and a chance to find out more about what they look for when recruiting fashion graduates.

Attendance can be made at any time throughout the day and it is not a requirement to book in advance.

Please try to attend as this will be a valuable networking experience and an important step towards your career development.

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