@lilymaewillan
“Absolute dream to have done a little interview over at @thefacemagazine about my influences and growing up in West Yorkshire, working with @martine_rose and who I would want to host around my dinner table ❤️
Thankyou @t_jsidhu and @thefacemagazine for taking the time to speak to me ❤️❤️❤️
theface.com/style/lily-willan-menswear-designer-westminster-martine-rose-new-designers-fashion-style 😅“
Class of 2022 Excellence. #WESTMINSTERFASHION
@pregesaite
“Look 1 from my BA collection 'Duplicity'.
Model: @godi4shure
Photography: @_sheacameron_
Pattern-cut and sewn by me
DUPLICITY reflects designer Patricija Regesaite’s inspiration from the surrealist stop-motion films of Jan Svankmajer. The Czech director and Lithuanian-born Patricija share a bond based on the trauma of Soviet oppression. Occupied lands, repressed with restrictions generated a malaise of monotony. To bypass censorship, Jan Svankmajer reverted to Aesopian language by lacing superficial innocent stories with hidden meaning and infusing them with animated everyday objects and grotesque visual aesthetics.
Svankmajer’s movie Alice features a white rabbit and tracks Alice‘s metamorphosis through her challenging journey. Patricija Regesaite’s pieces invoke this surreal aesthetic, seeming to transform into characters, living a life of their own. Vivid, playful colour is set against a background of a faded palette.
Multiple techniques are used to create collage-like silhouettes. Playing card soldiers inspire wearable pieces and the well-crafted puppets featured in the film, are referenced through draping and pattern cutting, lending their parts for spinning bags and strapped hats.”
Class of 2022 Excellence. #WESTMINSTERFASHION
Introducing the Metaverse’s newest fur-free fashion! 🤩
Four of our Fashion students have created experimental digital outfits from ‘fur’ – but no animals were harmed, as the pieces only exist in the Metaverse ✨
This project, in collaboration with @mobiquityeu, unveils the opportunities that Metaverse can present for the fashion industry while eliminating the limitations of the physical world.
All earnings from the NFT auction will be used by the International Anti-fur Coalition to fight the fur industry worldwide 👏
Discover the UNFUR project via the news link in our bio 🔗
Credits: Blythe Burnt, Denise Maissonave, Jessica Rey and Isabel Ealand
@emmaistvanffy
“The rich symbolism of Hungarian folklore is a major inspiration for designer Emma Istvánffy’s collection. Folk songs and poetry, folk costume and other traditional cultural references from her homeland continue to inform Emma’s work.
Depicting a lifespan, based on folk traditions, the collection begins with an all-white look representing the innocence of childhood. Colour is gradually introduced, depicting the blossoming of youth and maturity. Darker colours then signal the ageing process, mourning and death.
Keen to minimise environmental impact, the collection has been created using 90% second-hand materials sourced from local recycling centres or donated deadstock fabrics.
Various modern and traditional techniques have been used: laser cutting, engraving, vacuum forming, machine and hand embroidery, digital and screen print, hand-painting, dyeing and pleating as well as 3D scanning and printing, creating an exciting and original statement.”
Class of 2022 Excellence. #WESTMINSTERFASHION
@katie_w_w
“look 1 of one’s own - closet 🖤🕷💞🔪♟🪦🎀🥛🐖🦷
black wool and cashmere felt coat using deadstock LV fabric, moulded silicone knit apron using deadstock yarns, black crochet and tights top and veil 🔪
this coat is the only garment a machinist made !! a broke bitch made her whole collection lol
thank you to everyone who helped me with this collection and kept me sane !!!”
Class of 2022 Excellence. #WESTMINSTERFASHION
@venusinalpaca
“@1granary
“The amount of knowledge and creative self-awareness I’ve been able to take from this process is priceless. It taught me the importance of a good network system and made me appreciate all the great people I’m surrounded by,” @westminsterfashion graduate @venusinalpaca muses.
Tight-laced leg corsets are Eduardo Moreira’s reaction to restriction. “I’m paying homage to my rural Portuguese homeland, where I reference the legacy of folklore alongside family memoirs from the civil war and the stifling dictatorship of Salazar,” explains the designer, who for research, used AI algorithms to generate ghostly beings as figments of the past. Named Arrebentas, derived from the verb ‘to break’, his collection deconstructs the conservative brutality that prevailed in Portugal until the sixties, yet it also celebrates the restoration of liberty in local communities. Head to 1granary.com to discover the entire Westminster class!”
https://1granary.com/designers-3/graduate-shows/westminster-ba-fashion-2022-past-preservation-future-adaptation/
@mayamagnay
“@1granary
“I have learned that just because a design seems simple, it doesn’t mean you need to do any more to it – know when to stop,” says @westminsterfashion designer @mayamagnay . Bandage-wrapped in knitwear knee braces and bell-shaped tops that swallow arms whole, models depict constricting times in Maya’s life, when creativity became stifled in school academia as well as the uncertainty of a late ADHD diagnosis. “I’m sorry to be leaving education. I’m going to get some training in programming knit next – I feel like it’s a path with so many things to learn and experiment with that I don’t even know about yet,” they say. “I’d like to find a place in slow fashion, and I want my work to be accessible for lots of people – because if it’s not accessible it’s not sustainable.” Head to 1granary.com to scroll through the entire Westminster class of 2022!”
https://1granary.com/designers-3/graduate-shows/westminster-ba-fashion-2022-past-preservation-future-adaptation/