Excellence in Foundation 2011 selects work by West London College Fashion students
Grace Insogna and Florentina Rama have been selected by UAL awarding body to display their work in an exhibition Excellence in Foundation 2011 at The Triangle Gallery Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Florentina's work was created from a project on Protection and was also inspired from a starfish.
Whilst Grace's final project was called closing the loop. Her concept was about dissecting the idea of sustainability and how it is attainable in the context of the fashion industry. Grace transformed a pair of jeans into another wearable creative fashion piece.
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WLC student's work featured in Earl's Court Festival
West London College Fashion student Grace Insogna has had a piece of her work featured in Designer Pages hosted by Tolula Adeyemi.You can read all about Grace's 'Magazine Paper Dress' here at her blog La Poubelle Verte
Vintage by Hemingway Competition - WLC student's entry
As part of Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway's Vintage weekend (29th-31st July) at the Southbank Centre the Retread Your Threads catwalk show will showcase a selection of vintage fashions.
West London College Fashion Student Catalina Romero Guarín has entered her work into a contest for a chance of winning a spot on the judging panel.
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Catalina says of her entry: "My design is a perfect representative of vintage style. It was developed based on two strong vintage concepts: Change and colour, taking inspiration from the chameleon (eye and tail), an old jacket bought in a charity shop was transformed into a beautiful stylish hat."
What to do with a degree in fashion (Guardian article)
"You may not end up as a Stella McCartney, but there are plenty of options for fashion graduates"
As part of a regualry series for The Guardian, Angela Foster looks at employment and further studying opportunities for Fashion graduates. Click here for the article
West London College students now with Alexander McQueen
Former West London Fashion students Stephanie Ghoussain, who went on to studying surface textile design at LCF, and Ji Seon, now studying fashion at Ravensbourne College of Design, are now completing internships at Alexander McQueen.
West London College fashion students are runners up in the Metro Re-Create 2010 competition
Two students from the West London College Department of Fashion Design are runners up in the 2010 Metro Re-Create competition. Metro, the UK's 3rd largest national newspaper, in association with Oxfam hold the Re-Create competition to find great new talent in the field of Art and Design, inviting Art and Design students and recent graduates to use their talent, creativity and used copies of Metro to sculpt, design, mould, print or paint their own masterpiece.
Students Oksana Decune and Candy Choi produced creative designs using the themes of green and free. They used the metro newspaper to re-create innovative and exciting fashion pieces.
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For further details of the Re-Create competition, please visit the Re-Create web site.
Students' work at the Fashion Revolution Exhibition at Somerset House 2009
The students entered a fashion Styling and Design competition at Somerset House. They begin by researching Somerset House's fascinating history and photographed different aspects of the building. They became interested in the surface of the walls, the cellars and the staircases. The prestigious Masquerade Balls also influenced them, when Somerset House became the home for the admiralty. The competition required them to download the patterns of famous fashion Designers Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe and John Galliano. They used their creative ideas from the building of Somerset House to re create the patterns in exciting ways. Although they did not win the competition, two students Rosanna Severino and Sarah Mensah's photographs were chosen for the Fashion Revolution Exhibition and are now on display in the gallery at Somerset House.
Rosanna Severino (click on an image to enlarge)
Sarah Mensah (click on an image to enlarge)
Exhibition August 2009
On Thursday 6th August 2009 an exhibition of students work took place in the Fashion Department at Hannah House. Again students wrote and planned a final major project based on different starting points. These varied from a journey, derelict buildings, soft and spikey surfaces, shoes, knitting and dreams. The students used creative ideas and produced creative sculptural forms on the stand. The students have now progressed onto degree courses at LCF, UCCA Rochester, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and Boras Textilhogskola Sweden.
WLC student chosen as finalist in Metro Re-Create 2 Competition 2009
WLC Fashion Students entered the Metro Re-Create 2 competition for 2009. The brief was to create a piece of art or design from used newspaper using the environment as their inspiration. Three of our students' pieces appeared in the Metro Newspaper on February 25th 2009. Mathilda Spjuth made studies of a bird skull and bone structure to create an interesting sculptured piece for the body, which was created out of the Metro, string and wire. Pooja Sharma drew from a pine cone for her entry and will use recyclable materials in her future work. Siann Au Yeung created a marbled effect using coloured parts of the Metro cutting the newspaper into strips and rolling them into fine lines.
'All the students created exciting innovative work after a visit to Kew Gardens and Liron Kliger has been chosen as one of the finalists. She has developed an exciting sculptural piece for the body after studying rosehips. Her work is very spiky, colourful and original.' Said Louise Lidington, Head of Fashion at WLC.
