Olivia Hanson

I love! love! love! Olivier Hanson's degree show, such fun, working on ideas surrounding inflatables toys , carp kites and packaging Olivier Hanson has created a show that is fun, challenging and startlingly different. Her workbooks are wonderful take time to enjoy them.

Joanna Pennycard

Joanna Pennycard's costumes are Beardslyesk decedent, erotic and grotesque, they leer at you as you enter the room, they are fantastic!

Sophie Wallace

Having written a few posts about Fashion at this years Edinburgh College of Arts Degree Show, I have to write some posts about the sumptuous and fantastic Performance Costume graduates also.
Above is the work of Sophie Wallace who's work created character costumes for The Jungle Book, but from the perspective of a blind audience, "The costumes are a story telling device, so they are touch descriptive. All the fabric has been manipulated to feel as animal like as possible and takes reference from traditional Indian clothing."

Vera Chan

Taking inspiration from the writer Kobo Abe ,Vera Chan's garments are like layers of skin, 'acting as front doors connecting the inside and outside of the human being'. Vera Chan's garments are beautiful honey toned hand woven silks, the craftsman ship visible in the detail of her work is superb, her buttons amazing.

Anna Stephenson

Anna Stephenson's floral printed silks have been sliced and rewoven to create a unique collection inspired by femininity, twins and duality. "I have developed various techniques in digital printing, screen printing and cutting to produce a collection mainly focused on surface design" Anna has been awarded the I-ON Graduate Fashion Prize 2011 and is going on to study a MFA i Fashion design and Society at Parsons The New School Of Design in New York. You can see Anna Stephenson talking about this collection here.

Klara Sormark

Klara Sormark produced this elegant sheer collection in orange and cream. Klara has been researching clothing and status "clothes and the way they are worn, can give anyone status."

Emma Clifton

Wham! Emma Clifton's clothes blast you with colour and style and are a great introduction to a series of posts about this years Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show. I cannot recommend this show highly enough in terms of Textiles, Fashion and Costume Design, it is superb! If you are in Scotland try to get there, it is on Saturday 11th to Sunday 19th June Mon-Thursday 10am- 8pm and 10am-5pm on Friday Saturday and Sunday. Bottom two images: Christopher Moore Ltd