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Fabulous designs on show at Graduate Fashion Week

Thursday 21 May 2009

Graduate Fashion Week

Fifteen talented final year fashion students from our School of Architecture and Visual Arts have been chosen to show off their collections on 7 June in front of talent scouts, photographers, journalists and buyers at Graduate Fashion Week at Earls Court.

One selected student, Sarah Seaton Burridge, is going on to study her masters degree at the Royal College of Art. She said, "My collection is based on fairytales and the mixture of the innocent and the sinister."

Other students exhibiting their designs at Graduate Fashion Week this year include:

Ayroza Dobson is studying BA Hons Fashion Design with Marketing. Her collection is called 'All the small things' and focuses on items like postcards and badges and making them into bigger designs, such as her badge dress. Ayroza said: "I'm really happy that I've been selected for Graduate Fashion Week, it's a great opportunity to present my collection and I feel as if all my efforts have been rewarded."

Balvinder Chawla’s collection is called 'Desolate dolls.' Balvinder said: "The collection was inspired by porcelain dolls that I found in a skip in Deptford. I took one home for inspiration and decided that a collection based on that theme would be really interesting."

Caelie Jones said: "My collection is called 'Toasted' and largely relates to the prints within the collection - all of which were developed from pictures of my kitchen. My inspiration was taken from Industrial Britain in the 1980's and the beginning of the digital age."

Louise Marie Rhodes, 24, from Bow Rd. Louise said: "My collection is called 'One round Jack' and it's inspired by 1920's Menswear. It includes men's fabrics for women's wear with sharp, hard-edged seam lines. My aim was to be part of Graduate Fashion Week when I started the course so I'm really pleased to be selected."

Julie O'Sullivan, Senior Lecturer at the School of AVA, said: "I'm delighted to see such a wonderful variety of collections going through to Graduate Fashion Week this year. Our students have worked incredibly hard and it's great to see them so excited about showcasing their designs, I wish them all the success at the show!"

AVA Fashion Design is renowned as one of the best programmes in the UK and the School also has an exhibition stand where portfolios are on display for graduating students. UEL has excellent links in the fashion industry and is a leading University for Fashion and Textiles.

Graduate Fashion Week, which showcases the very best of student design from around the UK, runs from 7 - 11 June. In previous years, UEL students have won a number of awards and in 2007, student Kelly Shaw’s garments were bought by judge Victoria Beckham.

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