We aren’t the first magazine to ask: What if you put fashion students’ wildest flights of fancy on ordinary people going down the shops? Nor will we be the last. But the results are always pretty funny and weird. The last time we saw this was about seven years ago in Sleazenation. It looked daft and shocking then, but after Boombox and Lady Gaga it’s not that difficult to imagine postmen walking around in this sort of space-age fancy dress. So maybe this type of fashion stunt is less of a joke and more of an indication of Primark in 2012.
Fashion blog babies
Central Saint Martins has a “big deal” fashion design course. It’s the one conservative parents don’t mind paying for their kids to go to, because it’s got major “big deal” kudos. Everyone went there. Luella Bartley, Hussein Chalayan, Giles Deacon, John Galliano, Katie Grand, Kim Jones, Christopher Kane, Sophia Kokasolaki, Jonathan Saunders, Gareth Pugh, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen and Zac Posen all went there. Which is everyone. Read more »
London College of Fashion BA catwalk show
Alex Rosewald’s model appeared unhurt after parachuting in through the roof.
The LCF show featured a marathon of 28 collections hand-picked from the graduating class. To be honest, they could have been even more picky, because it lasted for an unfathomably long time. Still, despite the arduous task of sitting through it all, a lot of the collections were worth the effort. Read more »
Fashion students aren’t all thick
Dean Kissick studies art at London’s Royal College of Art, the world’s only post grad only art school, in June the RCA will present their MA shows and one or two designers will get mad love on the web, but Dean reckons he knows who we should check out already. Here are his picks of his most talented contemporaries, what a kiss arse.
LIAM EVANS
Liam says he was raised by ravens in the rolling hills of the Shropshire countryside, and often likes to pretend he’s a llama, pawing at the ground and spitting at people. His makes mostly dark and perverse leather stuff for chicks.
