Anna Sui

 

Inspired by French antique dealer and interior decorator Madeleine Castaing and 1970s punk scene Anna Sui's SS 2013 collection at the New York Fashion Week earlier this month made everyone smile. Candy coloured hair crowned a collection buzzing with pattern, layering and embellishment, irreverent and sweet an optimistic happy collection.

Leandro Cano

Leandro Cano was presented with the "Designer For Tomorrow" award during the Berlin Fashion Week 2012. He is a designer who likes to adjust the shape of female form through his structured garments. Leonardo Cano plays with knitting, leather and crochet to create a new interpretation of femininity through bold texture and shape.

DfT Finalists 2012 - Leandro Cano

Haizhen Wang

Haizhen Wang the Chinese born London based designer last night was named the winner of Fashion Fringe 2012. 
Haizhen Wang graduated from London College of Fashion with a BA(Hons) in Design and Technology in Fashion Industry and an MA(Hons) in Womenswear Fashion from London Central Saint Martin. In 2010 he launched his own label.These images are from his AW 2012 collection, which shows the influence of being in London in Jubilee year with beefeater and military styling used to change the appearance of the bodies proportions

Haizhen Wang Loves London

Adrian Behzadi

Adrian Behzadi's collaged illustrations have wonderful texture, colour analysis and use, they are great inspiration for sketch book work or mood boards. Adrian Behzadi is a scientist who produces illustrations in his spare time.

Louise Gray II

Louise Gray's SS 2013 'Now What' collection was unveiled today at the Topshop space, London fashion Week. Louise's work is like a witches brew of fashion with vintage mixed with space age and jangling clashes of colour and pattern, fashion with neo punk attitude.
(Photos: Alessio Paratore)

Ming-Pin Tien

 Ming-Pin Tien this year finished her MA in Fashion Design technology, Women's wear at the London College of Fashion. Today she showcased her work at London Fashion Week in the Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s ‘Ones to Watch’ show. Ming-Pin Tien's outstanding skill is her pattern cutting creating bold structural clothes that change the bodies appearance and silhouette.
Photographs by Kamil Szkopik

Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman

 

London Fashion Week started yesterday, kicking off with Fyodor Golan a collaborative label presenting their fourth collection. Their SS 2013 collection is inspired by the book 'Blue Tattoo'. Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman met in London and launched their joint venture in 2010. (images)

Sara Lundberg

 

  

 

Framing Forest is Sara Lundberg's graduation collection, it has been featured in 'Vouge Italia' September Student Talent Issue 2012, and Lady Gaga has asked to borrow on one the outfits after the Stockholm Fashion Week.
Like a mirage this collection hovers between reality and image,  the garments are printed with photographs and then the collection is  presented cut out and superimposed on a photograph background.

Anatomy and Fashion

Clothes cover bodies, wrap bodies, reshape bodies redesign body form. Key to fashion is a good knowledge of anatomy and ergonomics.
Body shape and movement can be transformed by good fashion into poetry.
By Photographer: Alex Caley for 'Dutch' magazine issue 26, the model is Hannelore Knuts unfortunately I cannot find the dress designer.(thank you)

NC Fashion Portfolio

 

 

A wonderful first workshop with NC Fashion, lovely to meet and commence working with you all.
Here are some of the fab and fun creations from today's masks, veils and headdress workshop.

Danielle Kroll

 

I suggested to some of you, that a good way to build your skills in fashion design, drawing and illustration, is to make a 'clothes diary'. Here Danielle Kroll has done just that in her 'What I wore today' series, I hope it inspires you to get one started as it will quickly grow into a great sketchbook.

Harmony Nicholas

 

Australian photographer Harmony Nicholas's work often is very bold, brash, humorous and visually striking, I liked the 'paper dressing doll' concept for this editorial for Merge Magazine.

Harris Tweed

Kristina Kurkina

"By the time I had made the final fold, the piece of paper was a shape of a geometric flower ... Once it was time to turn the flower in on itself and I pulled it through the incision. I pushed the sides of paper flower towards the centre and as I did so it glowed and began to disappear…"
Ian McEwen - Solid Geometry

Kristina Kurkina is a Russian-Kazakh designer based in London and this is her 'Collection No1'. Her work involves bold silhouettes and  innovative shape. Krisina uses tailoring and imaginative fabric manipulation and smocking to create strong expressive designs. (thank you)