Third Year Fashion Show 

Sharing a studio with the third years and seeing them work on there final collections has been an interesting experience as you slowly start to see the progress and development. Finished and presented the collections individually looked amazing and its nice to see the hard work pays off. 

Each individual collection was completely different from another from process such as digital print being used to knit, dip dying, embroidery, silk weaving ... The list goes on. When looking at them you insatiately want to use each process however narrowing down there was a few that stood out to me. 

LOVE LOVE LOVE ! This collection by one of the very own third years themselves. The collection has a gothic, attitude theme to it through using process such as discharging and dip dying to create a dark, gloomy effect techniques off which I am interested in introducing into my final collection as they work excellent when playing with colour. I particularly liked the use of over sized garments creating a dramatic statement that is unique and powering. The use of colour and decorative dying techniques almost remind me of the brand All Saints possibly one of the reasons I was drawn to it in the first place.  

This knitted full length dress is so beautiful and elegant it has really opened my eyes to the possiablily of knit and how the process can be used to create a full length garment. The decorative surface consists of fine detailed patterns that almost remind me of gothic artictexture from the use of the geometric shapes. As I use a lot of colour and print in my own work its inspiring to see how textiles can be used with out introducing multiple colours, a challenge that I could set up for myself. 

Looking at the thirds years experience from being printed in Vogue to winning compilations it hard to believe that I will be in there shoes in a couple of months, I just hope my final collection looks amazing as theres. The final collections themselves have definably gave me some ideas of what techniques I am interested in introducing into my own, as well as how textiles and construction can work together. Unable to make the actual show itself due to work the feedback and comments from the night where really positive and I wish the third years all the best in the future careers.