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Graduate Fashion Awards winners announced

The Graduate Fashion Awards took place yesterday as part of Graduate Fashion Week at Earls Court, London. The main prize, The Gold Award, was presented to Rory Longdon from Nottingham Trent University (pictured here). Other key winners on the night included Marissa Owen from the University of Central Lancashire who was named as winner of the Womenswear Award, while Felix Chabluk Smith from Edinburgh College of Art received the menswear award. Support from the GFW Mentoring Panel will be offered to all Graduate Fashion Week winners.

Graduate Fashion Award winners

The Gold Award
Rory Longdon from Nottingham Trent University

Womenswear Award
Marissa Owen from the University of Central Lancashire

Menswear Award
Felix Chabluk Smith from Edinburgh College of Art

Zandra Rhodes Catwalk Textiles Award
Dominique Kral from Northbrook College

The Stuart Peters Visionary Knitwear Award
Wonjee Chung, from Nottingham Trent University

International Award
Christina Economu from Marangoni Paris

Gala Music Award
Kingston University.

Hammerson Fashion Innovation Award
Parsha Gerayesh from The University of Westminster

The Mulberry Accessories Award
Molly Ratcliff from Northumbria University

The David Band Textiles Award
Sarika Pancholi from De Montfort University

The Lifeline It Media And Design Award
Lauren Brown & Sophia Sabados of UCA Epsom

Per Aquum Creative Marketing Award
Charoula Demosthenous from UCA Epsom

Stand Design Award
Edinburgh College of Art

The Karen Millen Fashion Portfolio Award
Kyle Spires from Edinburgh University

The "First Word" Journalism Award
Kimberley Dines from the University of Central Lancashire

The Barclays New Business Idea Award
Hsin Yee Wong from UCA Epsom

www.gfw.org.uk

Rimmel London joins L'Oreal Professional in sponsoring Graduate Fashion Week

Rimmel London is joining L’Oréal Professionnel as the official hair and make-up sponsors for the shows at Graduate Fashion Week for the 2011 event at Earls Court 2, London from 5 - 8 June.

“We’re delighted to welcome Rimmel as a new sponsor at Graduate Fashion Week and would also like to acknowledge L’Oréal Professionnel’s tremendous contribution to the success of the event. Both give students unique access to world-class stylists at this pivotal moment in their careers. Their expert involvement is particularly invaluable as it helps the students present a most professional image on the GFW catwalk.” comments June Barker, Director of Graduate Fashion Week.

www.gfw.org.uk

agnes b. to collaborate with Central Saint Martins

agnes b. is to collaborate with Central Saint Martins on its MA Fine Art degree interim show in June. The label will be hosting a preview of the Interim Fine Art exhibition works from 13 June until 1 July at the Floral Street store in Covent Garden, London WC2. After that the works will be on display at Central Saint Martin’s until the time of the auction. The auction will take place on 9 July at Central Saint Martin’s, Charing Cross Road overseen by Sotheby’s auctioneer Adrian Biddell.

The fine art students also had the chance to celebrate the move of Central Saint Martin’s by submitting artwork to represent the move of premises from Charing Cross to Kings Cross, the artwork finalists, Olivia Notaro and Lucia Alvarez were chosen from 35 designs by agnès and will have work printed on a T-shirt.

Fashion Fringe 2011 announces semi-finalists

Fashion Fringe has announced the candidate shortlist for 2011. Following a day of discussion and judging, this year’s panel, which includes Claudia Schiffer and Roland Mouret, has agreed on 11 designers to go through to the next round. They are:

• Aidan Drago
• Bethan Juliff
• Danielle Jade Windsor
• Fyodor Golan
• Heidi Leung
• Jiyun Lapthorne
• Kimberley Giacomelli
• Liz Black
• Nabil El-Naya
• Nika Urbas
• Sam Parsons

The final three candidates will be chosen after a board interview, at a party on 24 May. The selected candidates will then be given studio space throughout the summer to work on their Fashion Fringe capsule collections for London Fashion Week in September. One designer will be selected as the overall winner by the judging panel and will receive a 2-year development package to set up and sustain their business; which includes a mixture of cash, business advice, mentoring and a fully equipped studio at Somerset House.

Visit www.fashionfringe.co.uk for more info on each of the candidates.

New Designers 2011 taking place this Summer

New Designers 2011, an event showcasing the best in graduate design, begins next month at the Business Design Centre. This is a two-part event that runs from 29 June to 2 July and 6 July to 9 July. (See DIARYdates)

New Designers is a showcase for graduates as they emerge from the UK’s design courses to start professional careers in creative industries embracing interior design, furniture, products, home and fashion accessories, applied arts, architecture, multi-media, graphics and more. The event will include ideas, trends and work from around 3500 new designers. Jewellery designer Stephen Webster will be opening Part 1 on 29 June and presenting awards during the VIP preview evening.

For more information and to book tickets visit the website: www.newdesigners.com

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This is my version of the Tree of Life. It is believed to be a diagrammatic representation of the process by which the Universe came into being.

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George at ASDA named as title sponsor of Graduate Fashion Week

Graduate Fashion Week (GFW) has announced George at Asda as the event’s new title sponsor for 2011 (5-8 June). The announcement comes as Graduate Fashion Week prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary and George celebrates its 21st birthday. Each year Graduate Fashion Week celebrates the work of more than 1,000 BA Degree fashion students from 65 member universities across the UK and overseas, for the biggest showcase of young talent in the world.

Fiona Lambert, Brand Director at George, who has been a member of the GFW Mentoring Panel for the last 2 years, commented “Despite the tough economy, we felt we should pull out all the stops to come forward and support our young graduates. These students are the emerging designers of tomorrow and I am delighted that we are able to support their future careers, and that they will still able to showcase their collections in London next June.”

(Rebecca Thomson is shown above collecting the Gold Award at GFW earlier this year)

Fresh Fashion Flash comes to Portobello Market

For four weekends only Portobello Market will be home to ‘Fresh Fashion Flash’, a pop-up market filled with new fashion and accessories, designed by fashion students and graduates. Launching on 16 October, the market will take place every Saturday and Sunday for one month. It hopes to enable a new generation of talent to promote and sell their collections, while giving shoppers at Portobello Market the opportunity to discover and support young designers. The stalls are being given to the participants free of charge and the pop-up market could become something more permanent if it is a success. Students and graduates from London College of Fashion, Ravensbourne, Kensington & Chelsea College, University of Westminster, University of East London and UCA, among others, have been invited to take part in the pop-up market.

New fashion design concept launches online tomorrow

Own Label is a new concept in fashion design, aiming to give new designers a chance to showcase work and have garments manufactured and sold online. Own Label post specific briefs on the website, designers then submit their designs in line with the brief and the best are published on the site to be voted for by the online community. The designs with the largest number of votes at the end of the competition are manufactured and sold through the online store with the designer's name on the label. Own Label will officially launch tomorrow during Graduate Fashion Week. Graduate Fashion Week is a natural partner for Own Label. There is a wealth of creative talent graduating from UK fashion colleges each year, with opportunities for new designers demonstrate skills in a commercial setting, Own Label hopes to provide a new channel from which the top designers of the future can emerge. www.own-label.com

Exclusive Graduate Fashion Week range launches in River Island

An exclusive Graduate Fashion Week range launches in River Island this week. The store, title sponsor for the 6th year in succession, has employed over 90 graduates in the past 5 years from GFW, ensuring their designs hit the high street. This week River Island is launching a range of GFW products in selected stores nationwide, just in time for this year’s event which is taking place 6-10 June (see DIARYdates). In particular the range has several pieces designed by 2009 Award winners Myrto Stamou (UCA Rochester) and Charlotte Simpson (University of Northumbria). Myrto Stamou, winner of the prestigious River Island Gold Award, as well as the Womenswear Award, has recently completed an internship with Hannah Marshall and has been working closely with River Island to create these dresses, inspired by her graduation collection. The designs, pictured here, are strong and sleek and employ supple leather, mesh panelling and slinky jersey. Giles Deacon described her collection as ‘a cohesive range that could easily be sold tomorrow’. Prices start from £49.99.

Free Range exhibitions to include fashion

As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, Free Range, an Old Truman Brewery project supporting new graduate artists and designers, has announced a new fashion category with three days of graduate fashion shows. Until now Free Range has presented graduate exhibitions in the creative disciplines of Art, Photography, Design, Graphics and Interiors. Extending this support to graduate fashion designers, Free Range is dedicating an exclusive catwalk-space to graduate fashion shows, with cocktails supplied by Perrier. Universities to be featured at the show include Wincester School of Art, Middlesex University and Somerset College. www.free-range.org.uk. See DIARYdates for more details.

BFC and Harrods launch Graduate Competition

Today the British Fashion Council (BFC) and Harrods have launched the Harrods Graduate Competition. Winning the competition will entitle one student from a Colleges Council member college to win a year’s internship working alongside the Fashion Buying Team. This unique opportunity will give the individual the chance to gain the skills and knowledge in design, quality assurance, buying and retail sales, as part of their development following graduation. Three graduates will be chosen to undertake a one month training placement, learning different aspects of the Harrods business. During this time, they will be assessed and, in August 2010 one of the three will be selected to win a year’s paid internship with the Harrods Fashion Buying Team, working on design, development and the retail experience. A senior panel of judges including Anne Tyrrell, Chair of the BFC’s Colleges Council, Caroline Rush, CEO (Joint), BFC and Marigay McKee, Fashion and Beauty Director of Harrods, will choose the winning portfolio and written case study that shows exceptional design ability and also encapsulates the need and product styling key to the Harrods customer. The closing date for entries is 11th June 2010. For more details and full brief please go to www.britishfashioncouncil.com/collegescouncil.