Textiles study at level 2
Graduate Fashion Week
| Bunmi Koko's Creative Director, Bunmi Olaye was invited by ITN to comment on the possible wedding dress Kate Middleton will choose for the Royal Wedding to Prince William. Bunmi was approached as one of the most exciting and leading emerging designers in the UK to make a statement on how she would dress the future Queen for her big day. Bunmi was interviewed by ITN reporter Nina Nanna and the piece to camera was run all day on ITV News as part of the coverage for the announcement of the Royal engagement. |
Vietnamese student's dress sold well in UK
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"VietNamNet Bridge - When Vietnamese student Le Thi Le Thuy from the University of East London collaborated with household fashion brand George--to make an affordable version of her designer dress available through stores and online outlets, she hadn’t realized quite how popular a design it was – the run of over 2000 dresses sold out almost immediately it went on sale." -VietNamNet |
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UEL Fashion students presented their work at GFW (Graduate Fashion Week) last year and the ITV Good Morning Viewers Award was won by UEL Fashion graduate Le Thuy. Le Thuy's 'diffusion' dress (pictured right) is now going on sale at George this week.
UEL fashion student Le Thuy Le Thi was greeted with rapturous applause by the six-hundred strong audience as she took to the stage at Graduate Fashion Week’s closing Gala show in June 2011. Fashion legend Jeff Banks announced to the sold-out venue that Le Thuy had won ‘the People’s Choice’ award, launched by ITV’s This Morning show, for a design from her collection, Afternoon Tea. According to the show’s producers, Le Thuy won the online vote with a landslide victory. The fashion student collected the award from Fiona Lambert, Brand Director at George, and television personality, Jason Gardiner
| Bunmi Olaye - University of East London's Women's Entrepreneurship |
Below are some examples from Printed Textile Design, more of which can be seen at UEL Textiles
Sian Golding
Printed Textile Design
2010
Okie Aroriode
Printed Textile Design
2010
Lorraine Gilbert
Printed Textile Design
2010
Lauren Clarke
Printed Textile Design
2010
Aimee Charles
Printed Textile Design
2010
Haji Fofana
Printed Textile Design
2010
Interactive Nature
This piece was created for an exhibition held at the university of east london on 2nd June 2011. The aim is to show how nature is always more powerful, how nature will always keep up to speed with the world we live in, and was part of and 8ft cube installation piece.
This piece of moving image can be projected onto any surface.
