Ravensbourne // Blog Mention

Really little but exciting thing Ravensbourne's post about Susie Bubble praising Ravensbourne students was posted recently and it mentioned a few blogs to look out for including mine!

Check out the post //here// !!

Even if a tiny mention it's nice to see someone mentioning my blog and calling it entertaining!

From hanging around GFW and seeing her posts it's so cool to see how much Susie Bubble enjoyed Ravensbourne's work and collections. I really do love how much positive press our graduates have recieved though it's great for all of them and our university too! 

Uni Work//MONO

Admist all of this blogging about GFW we've finally managed to hand in this terms project which was to create a magazine in teams of six! 

You can find ours //here//

Here's the cover! 

I'm totally proud of it though theres so much content in there that we've all worked so hard on, beautiful photoshoots and I think it's come together really nicely as an end of year product. I think everyone on our course has done so well to actually make magazines and it's really taught me a lot about the industry and what I want to do so check it out! 

GFW//Day Two Pt. 1

Another amazing day is over and what a day it's been! There's been some really interesting shows including my favourite Ravensbourne, although just a little bit bias on that! But still it was amazing!

Saw a few shows today including:

-International Show

-Ravensbourne 

-Nottingham Trent 

-DeMontford Contour

//International Show// 

Above - Michael Klammstenier 

Centre  - Marco Bianchini

Below - Angus Chiang 

The International Show brought us creations from various countries and continents, lets just say they totally 'brought it' too. It was an amazing show with so many different elements and ideas in everybodies work in there. These had to be my favourite three, firstly Michael Klammsteiner I loved his whole collection it was perfect, it had so many different elements to it, there was so much from shape to layering and even pattern and texture! Whats not to love. 

Next up, Marco Bianchini his collection was yet another where I found myself loving all of it. He had so many different materials in his, there was plastics and metalics which for me is obviously heaven. It all worked and working with mainly grey and black it still had a great impact!

After that in total contrast we have Angus Chiang, I loved the uses of colours in this a complete change to both other collections I liked. My favourite piece of it had to be the 'spacesuit' there's something about it I find really comical but also really stylish. 

Final mention had to go to Marina Hormanseder, what I didn't realise about her collection to begin with was how it was all a series of medical sling/restriction based collection. I loved it the mixes of materials she used and the colours, deciding on going for bright red/pink really helped create a work of wonder. 

//Ravensbourne//

Ravensbourne show was the main thing I wanted to see at GFW, obviously to support my own university! Firstly congrats are in order as we won two awards today, Sophie Christiansen won the Per Aquum Marketing Award and Rebecca Chambers won the New Media Award, brilliant for them both!

Above - Clio Peppiat 

Centre - Luke A Harris 

Below - Rose Blair 

So I loved so much of the Ravensbourne show it was an absolute treat, a total highlight of GFW and I really do think that not just because I'm a student! Clio Peppiat was one of my highlights, her material choices were amazing from various metallics to the nicest gold heels I've seen ever! To top it all off she has a burger purse, what more could I need? 

Coming to Luke Harris I loved his work, it was everything! Men in black it was power and the height of style in my opinion especially when paired with the headpieces he had too! I don't think there was anything even remotely wrong with any of this collection at all. Rose Blair was yet another spectacular Ravensbourne graduate, especially serving us all some much needed nostalgia in the form of a 'My Little Pony coat', which I obviously adore hitting me in all of my various softspots at once! 

But the show was such a strong one seeing other amazing work from students such as Jane Swansbury, Chen-yu Wang, Emma Vivian, Leanna Warren, Jack Bebbington and Charlotte Harris. 

I LOVED the show seriously one of, if not the best show I've seen so far and all people I spoke to agreed it was a masterpiece. I'm so glad that all the Ravensbourne graduates put together something amazing and really showed how high their standards are. 

GFW // Pop Up

Things have been so manic recently with all of my uni work but today we sent our magazine off to print, so thats something to look forward to seeing!

Anyway amongst all of this I wanted to talk about, with only nine days now until the start of Graduate Fashion Week! It's come on us so quickly but it's also so exciting, I checked the tickets and the Ravensbourne show has sold out, which is brilliant.

I also wanted to talk about some of the GFW schedulue and things which are happening with GFW! Firstly, there's going to be a pop up shop for students who want to sell work, students have been offered the chance to be a part of this. I think this is a brilliant idea to, it gives the students a really nice way to get their names out there and be promoted! Hopefully some Ravensbourne students will be in there!

The tickets for the shows are selling out fast and the tickets for talks are all fully booked so it should be an amazing event and time for fashion! Good luck to anyone showing and hope people who're attending are impressed!

British Vogue // Alexandra Shulman Talk

So yesterday we were lucky enough to have Alexandra Shulan, Editor of British Vogue come to Ravensbourne to have a talk about Vogue.

Firslty, it was such a interesting talk and also an honour to have her come to uni. She talked about so many things and wanting to possible follow into a career like hers I was so glad to hear her talk about her work.

During the talk she taked about some really interesting things British Vogue had done, also touching on various obvious points I hadn't thought about. When talking about cover imagery she added that the cover must be the most comerical thing in the whole magazine, it's never really been something I've thought about. To sell the magazine it's really important to have that comercial cover to speak to everyone and really draw in sales. 

She also talked about the success of the December 1999 cover, which I found interesting, really looking at how special collectors editions can really help boost sales, press and interest. I really love the concept of this Vogue cover really speaking out to the customer, making them the cover star. It's genius.

I also enjoyed the other topics she covered: the Vogue Festival, Digital vs Print content, Vogue as a platform for talent and British fashion at the current. 

I think one of the main issues that I really thought about from the talk was almost the power a magazine can have, Alexandra talked about Vogue being respected because it has authority because of its longevity. I think this is such an interesting and true idea, Vogue stands as the main authority of fashion news and content not to say it is the only thing you should read and follow. I think the Vogue festival is a really interesting concept too especially since fashion is ever growing as a topic of entertainment.

The talk really was a pleasure, for me being a student wanting to head into the fashion industry having someone in such a highly regarded position and of such authority come and deliver a talk is amazing. It's inspiring to see the people that make me want to work in the industry and I love the fact that Alexandra doesn't regard print as a dead medium, something we both seem to agree on!

Graduate//Fashion Week

So something to look forward to is graduate fashion week!

With less than a month until graduate fashion week now we've got something to look forward to from 2nd - 5th June there's going to universities from all over the UK presenting their degree shows. 

Heres the line up for whats happening:

Sunday 2nd June - Bournemouth, UCLAN, Edinburgh, Northumbria, Northbrook & Wiltshire College Salisbury and Istituo Marangoni London.

Monday 3rd June - Liverpool John Moores, UCA Rochester, Ravensbourne, Nottingham Trent, De Montfort Contour (Swimwear & Intimate Apparel), UCA Epsom.

Tuesday 4th June - East London, Bath Spa & Northampton, De Montfort, Birmingham, Manchester School of Art, Salford, Kingston. 

Wednesday 5th June - Best of GFW, GFW Gala and Awards Show.

Personally I'm most excited to see Ravensbournes show, obviously im bias but I think we're heading to actually going and see it after this projects hand in which is exciting! 

I can't wait to see what comes out of graduate fashion week none the less, there's something to me which I prefer about graduate shows. I think it's the fact that rather than working with just money as their target like most brands they're working to show their art, their creative flare. I think it really allows them to be more conceptual and take more risks than most designers do, this is something which I hate about design now it just seems to be based on money.

But ANYWAY away from that rant if anyone wants to check out any information for GFW then 

// CLICK HERE //