Borre Akkersdijk

Borre Akkersdijk is a Dutch designer working in Paris

"Ready-Made is a collection of materials in basic shapes. It's a concept that's all about the production process; a new way of making filled clothing using the production technique that has been used to produce mattresses." Borre Akkersdijk.

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Marie Labarelle

Marie Labarelle's seemingly effortless drape, creating beautifully structured designs. (thanks)

Tze Goh

Tze Goh's AW2011 collection is beautifully crafted from wool in a subtle pallet. It challenges traditional shape, creates a new aesthetic with beguiling simplicity and sculptural modernism. (Thanks)

Liza Fredrika Aslund II

Liza Fredrika Aslund's plastic infused fashion.

Liza Fredrika Aslund

Liza Fredrika Aslund is a graduate of the Danish Design School 2010 her Ma graduate show was inspired by a dream, she uses earth hues and natural fabrics to create drama but her collection also creatively utilised clear plastic materials to great affect.

Rei Kawakubo

Upholstered fashion! I love these silhouette changing, padded dresses, capable of completely reinventing shape and form by Rei Kawakubo.

Alena Akhmadullina

Looking like it has jumped from animation and Manga illustrations, Alena Akmadullina's spring summer collection from Russian Fashion Week is striking rich and eye catching. Alena studied at Saint Petersburg State University of Technology and Design and then went on to win the Smirnoff Fashion award in Moscow.

Anja Merete Larsen

Anja Merete Larsen is a new graduate of Kolding School of Design, I like her unique use of knitwear and the origami style decorative front piece.

Iris Van Herpen

Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen creates structural sculptural garments using digital technology and materials usually confined to industry and architecture. Images are from Iris Van Herpen's Spring Summer 2009 collection inspired by industrial smoke.

Shingo Sato

Shingo Sato's book is being released shortly.

Julian Roberts bought Shingo Sato to my attention this morning. Here are some stills of his unique pattern cutting technique. which he calls transformational Reconstruction. Shingo Sato has many lovely explanatory videos on YouTube, and he has a very approachable humorous style which is very watchable and informative, enjoy.

Richard Chai LOVE

The use of sensuous transparent chiffon combined with subtle opaques featured strongly in Richard Chai's spring 2011 LOVE collection at the New York Fashion Show.

Malta at Aarhus Fashion Show

I love this crazy image of the Maltese clothes (Bottom) and the textural work on the top dress.

Teko at Aarhus Fashion Show

These are some of the clothes produced by students at Teko for the show, using the inspiration of kite surfing and the fabrics involved in this sport.

Aarhus Fashion Show III

Images from the cat walk rehearsals, for the fashion show at Aarhus, featuring clothes from Julian Roberts master class at Adam Smith College.

Aarhus Fashion Show II, Hair and Beauty

Top, Top image: Our model with hair and make up finished

Top image: Yvonne and Susan working on our model's hair,

Middle image: Bernardette (maltese student) working on her model's makeup.

Bottom image: Aarhus technical college student working on her models hair.

A large part of presenting clothes at a fashion show is the styling of the models, their hair and beauty can make a vast difference. Because we were sharing our models we were not completely able to control this.

However we did have one model that Susan McGregor assisted by Yvonne Morrison designed the hair and makeup for, and it was wonderful to watch them and see their styling completing and complimenting the clothes.

Aarhus Fashion Show I

Fiona McLennan, Susan McGregor, Yvonne Morrison and I have returned from Aarhus, Denmark, having put on a fashion show using clothes and accessories made by students during the Julian Roberts and Tim Johnson masterclasses.

We were there as part of a European funded Leonardo Project which allows students and staff from different colleges the chance to see each others colleges, working methods and share good practice and in this case work together to put a fashion show.

The show in Denmark featured work from Malta college of Art Science and Technology, Aarhus Tech and invited participants from TEKO (as Aarhus technical college does not have a fashion department.

Over the next few posts I will be sharing some of the images from behind the scenes and soon I hope to have a link to a film of the show made by Chris Goa Farrugia a media student from Malta.

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this a great success.

Line Rie Rishoj

Line Rie Rishoj's portfolio is inspired by 1970's punk with modern minimalism, this is from her summer show 2010 at TEKO.