Students to showcase designs at London Fashion Week
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Published
02 June 2023
The University of East London Fashion department will show the work of its emerging talented creative designers with an official London Fashion Week (LFW) show.
The show, taking place on June 12, highlights work rooted in sustainability, gender-neutral and non-binary clothing and fashion artefacts.
It is informed by personal narratives exploring diaspora, gender identity, sexuality and communities. It is the second time the British Fashion Council has recognised the University and included it as part of the official LFW schedule. Being part of one of the world’s leading industry events is a testament to the exciting and cutting-edge work being created by its BA (Hons) Fashion Design students.
The designers have built on the auto-ethnographic context of design practice in relation to community and industry; and are a new breed of fashion designers and industry professionals with a strong sense of personal identity balanced with self-reflexivity, underpinned by authenticity.
Head of Fashion, Beatrice Newman, from the School of Arts and Creative Industries said, “This is a huge opportunity for our students to showcase their work in front of industry professionals including fashion houses, buyers, stylists and press.
"Being part of London Fashion Week is an amazing opportunity" – it has launched the careers of Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Charles Jeffrey and Bianca Saunders to name but a few. Our students now have a stage to market themselves to industry professionals that otherwise they would not have access to.
UEL has a huge story to tell - we are about developing products that serve a global majority, in its many shapes and forms."
UEL students represent a highly diverse group of backgrounds in a professional, academic and social sense with 52 per cent of current students identifying as having a BAME heritage. Fashion at UEL is the defining centre of an institution-wide interdisciplinary creative ecosystem, including ongoing collaborations across year levels with other courses including Film, Acting, Dance, Games, Marketing, Journalism, Sport, Photography and Interior Design.
BA Fashion Design at UEL offers emerging fashion designers the opportunity to study both traditional and innovative practices in fashion design, development, pattern cutting and digital design. As part of the course, students explore how computer-aided design and emerging digital technologies are helping to transform the fashion creation process.