GRADUATE FASHION WEEK PREVIEW COLLECTIONS – HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT 2014
Video Courtesy of Graduate Fashion Week
GRACE KELLER FROM BATH SPA WINS THE COVETED GRADUATE FASHION WEEK GOLD AWARD WORTH £10,000 PLUS THE BEST WOMENSWEAR AWARD FOR HER EXQUISITE LACE COLLECTION
Photography by Amanda Waters
The Manchester School of Art’s Camilla Grimes won the Creative Catwalk Award with her shiny collection of brightly coloured satins and furs.
Nottingham Trent University’s Aimee Dunn won the award for Best Menswear with her quirky collection, which included a top emblazoned with the face of Margaret Thatcher! (Her own face was also a picture when she realised she had won….!)
Rebecca Swann, also from Nottingham Trent, won the award for Best Knitwear.
Shan-Liao Huang won the award for Best International Collection, and Anne Tyrrell MBE who is a member of the British Fashion Council Management Committee and a former lecturer at the Royal College of Art received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY CONTOUR – BA 2014
TORI BOS
If anyone was wondering what effect the shift in venue from Earl’s Court to the Truman Brewery would have on Graduate Fashion Week this year, in my view it would have to be that it was a triumph!
The Truman Brewery is a big old building in the heart of the East End (Fashion District), with miles and miles of space for the designers to be able to spread out a little, and they certainly did!!
Each College or University had an enormous area to themselves within which to ‘show their wares’, in rooms that seemed as big as aircraft hangars!
It took a little while to navigate myself to my destination, weaving through rooms laced wall to wall with talent of such magnitude that it was impossible to know where to start.
Happy, smiling students and staff manned the stands of each College or University displaying their work, ready to answer any questions or give interviews at the drop of a hat.
The Fashion Shows themselves were superb. With two catwalks running simultaneously, and pleasant, well-organised staff.
Many collections were adorned with intricate detailing and accessories, as one would expect at Graduate Fashion Week, but all had an underlying sense of wearability. Other collections were simply beautiful. The standard of work was astonishingly high, and so exciting to watch! One superb collection after another….!
The versatile models were stunning (and took their jobs very seriously), and the seemless, superb music accompanying each show had all of us tapping our feet.
It was obvious to all that each designer showing on that catwalk had “tried their very best”, and absolutely deserved to be there.
We will be very proud to present each and every wonderful collection on our website shortly…..!
- Hannah Donkin Graduate Fashion Week 2014