Shengwei Wang

 

Shangwei Wang graduated in Knitwear in 2011 from London Central St Martins, Shengwei's work is unique in appearance and texture resulting from experimentation with unconventional materials and form.

 "I am really really picky with materials, and I cannot always find something nice in the market, so the best way to do it, is create my own fabric, and knitting for me is like a charming day dream time, I can put all my emotion together as the yarn, and knit it." Shangwei Wang

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

Petra Metzger

The next portfolio project for NC students is to be researching and making a face mask.
Many showcases from Students at Central St Martins featured masks in lots of their AW2012 collections at the London fashion week.
Here is the work of Petra Metzger who is currently completing her MA Womenswear course at St Martins where she graduated with a BA Hons degree in Fashion Design Womanswear.

Moira Cristescu

These are some of the incredible and fascinating graduation collection from Moira Cristescu's graduation show 2010.
Moira's clothes sculpted bodies around the wearers body in a disarming and provocative way a portable 'trompe-l'oeil'. Creating even more of a mirage of identity by presenting a fabricated persona, another body as part of the garment.

Laerge Hooge Andersen

Above: Exagerate hair growth could be the next clothing. Below: Bark fur

As with the pioneering work of Suzanne Lee, Laerge Hooge Andersen is also pushing the boundaries between science, textiles and fashion. Laerge's imagination and portfolio is shaping the future of textile developments akin to how science fiction has often become science fact.

Her graduation project 'The Synthetic Kingdom’ is a project that explores the possible fabrics of the future in fashion and culture. Lærke stops us thinking practically about textiles in favor of viewing textiles as conceptual expressions. She hints at the need for this abstraction, specifically in the world of textiles, as a means to keep things current. And current doesn’t have to mean technologically advanced, just future specific and constantly challenging.

Please explore her portfolio and open yourselves to the possibilities that being a designer offers, you shape the future.

Raffaela Ascione

Wonderful combinations of contrasting tweed and lace and great structuring and silhouette with timeless elegance. Raffaela Ascione's AW2011 is a great source of inspiration for your business unit.
Raffaela Ascione is a London based fashion designer. He began his fashion education in Ireland back in 2003 where he completed a two-year course at LSC, Limerick. He went on to complete his BA at UCA, Rochester in 2008. Upon graduation, Raffaele was head-hunted by Max Mara and spent a year in Milan designing across various different lines for the fashion house. Other experience within the industry include stints at Julia Clancey and Gareth Pugh where he spent 3 seasons working and re-fining his skills. He completed his MA at Central Saint Martins in Womenswear, showcasing his latest collection at London Fashion Week, A/W 2011. (thanks to 13threads)

Minky Ha

Minky Ha's work is certainly surprising in form, fabric and focus. This collection also looks full of fun and humour though it is much more hard hitting in it's intentions and concept.

"My Collection "What Men Live By?" is symbolical statement of my imaginary character's life who lives in capitalism. Each outfit is symbolise certain stage of the life in capitalism." Minky Ha

Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida

This is the AW2011 collection of a Portuguese collaboration between Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida. I love their story as much as I adore this work. They met whilst enrolling for Fashion School in Portugal, from which they both graduated with distinction in 2007. In 2009 they moved to London and gained industry experience working for Vivienne Westwood/ Anglomania (Marta) and Preen (Paulo). In 2009 they both started the MA fashion course at London Central St Martins. Having just graduated, this is their first collection. I found them in the wonderful magazine TANK.

Jennifer Yan II

Jennifer Yan's Knit project.

Jennifer Yan

Jennifer Yan's experiments in Jersey, fluid and elegant. Jennifer was born in China and raised in Sweden and has recently graduated from London Central St Martins.
"In a world where pickled herring meets marinated chicken feet on the dinner table, the contrasts adds depth and colour to life. Thus a childhood of contrasting cultures, though at times oddly complementing, envisions a world of multiple perspectives, numerous possibilities and limitless imagination." Jennifer Yan
What ever life throws at you cast it into the stew of your creative work it will always yield results, often unexpected and deeply rewarding.

Kana Shirouchi

Kana Shirouchi's project on constructing body space, is visually and conceptually very intriguing. Kana has just graduated from London Central St Martins and is originally from Japan.

Jenny Postle

Raggle taggle from top to toe, this is Jenny Postle's AW 2011 collection. It is quite tribal in its expression and its strangeness and when the outfits cover the face, quite scary too.

"I like my materials as well as my textiles to jar and sit awkwardly alongside each other, but always in an aesthetically pleasing way. A breakthrough came when I started to consider fabrics in the same way as I had yarns. Hence the patchwork idea." Jenny Postle. (thanks)

Jamie Cockerill

Jamie Cockerill's masters show for London Central St Martins. Jamie worked with a monochrome palette that enabled the seams to be highlighted as a feature. Jamie wanted to have a clean graphic look but contrast it with raw fabrics "The collection is about contrast and texture, as the black and natural coloured hessian is contrasted with a soft mohair" It is interesting how the contrast in colour remodels and shapes the form of the wearer. (thanks)

Grow Your Own . . . Clothes

Imagine if we could grow clothing . . .

That is exactly what Suzanne Lee (of Central Saint Martins College, London) working in partnership with Dr David Hepworth of CelluComp have been developing using bacteria and green tea.

BioCouture aims to address ecological and sustainability issues around fashion.
The BioCouture research project is harnessing nature to propose a radical future fashion vision.
We are investigating the use of bacterial-cellulose, grown in a laboratory, to produce clothing.
Our ultimate goal is to literally grow a dress in a vat of liquid...

Martina Spetlova

This is the work of Martina Spetlova a recent graduate of Central St Martins. Her collection is folded panels of contrasting texture and colour linked together with colourful zips. Martina used the concept of Lego bricks , so her bricks are separate panels that con be constantly reinvented zipped and unzipped in different combinations.