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GFF International Talent: Yuumi Ueda

GFF International Talent: Yuumi Ueda

Meet GFF International Talent, Yuumi Ueda from Osaka Institute of Fashion. Keita’s final year collection was inspired by the role of fashion and clothing in a wider cultural landscape. Through researching the connection between social issues and fashion, she discovered Mod culture and aims to bring together elements of this, and Japanese culture, in her collection.

GFF International Talent: Yuxin Huang

GFF International Talent: Yuxin Huang

Meet GFF International Talent, Yuxin Huang from Bunka Fashion College. “The Colours of Love” is Yuxin’s final collection, and looks at the many different forms love comes in, especially passionate love. Voluminous silhouettes have been digitally printed and dyed with colours and images that Yuxin associates with love to create an emotive and exciting collection. Read on to learn more about Yuxin’s work.

GFF International Talent: Salomé Valabregue

GFF International Talent: Salomé Valabregue

Meet GFF Talent, Salomé Valabregue, from ESMOD Lyon. Salomé’s inspiration and muse for her final year collection is Osa Johnson, an American explorer from the interwar period. Salomé explored the daily life of Osa and her husband to create a contemporary collection which images what the couple would wear in a modern context. Read on to learn more about Salomé and her work.

GFF International Talent: Hugo Castejon-Blanchard

GFF International Talent: Hugo Castejon-Blanchard

Meet GFF International Talent, Hugo Castejon-Blanchard from ESMOD Paris. Hugo’s final year project is called The Interns, and is inspired by professional administrative clothing and how this clashes with youth culture. “This collection is a glitch in the buttoned up world of business, the goal being to wear a garment that seems unsuitable to denounce a reality,” says Hugo about his work.

Creativity and Technicality Meet at ESMOD France

Creativity and Technicality Meet at ESMOD France

Get to know ESMOD France, the fashion school which is spread across two campuses: Paris and Lyon. ESMOD offers two options for undergraduate design courses and one undergraduate course in fashion business. Students can earn their Fashion Design undergraduate degree in three years, or in two by taking the accelerated Intensive Program. Because design is never as accurate as when it is approached technically, ESMOD has merged its design and pattern-making courses to provide students with a complete overview of the design process, from concept to manufacturing. Get to know 10 of ESMOD’s talented fashion design graduates

GFF International Talent: Michelle Huang

GFF International Talent: Michelle Huang

Meet GFF International Talent, Michelle Huang, from Shih Chien University in Taipei. Michelle’s final collection is inspired by fairytales and the balance between good and evil that presents itself through these stories. These stories can be analysed through a psychological lens to unveil recurring themes, which Michelle has transformed into the basis of her collection.

Inside 10 IED Barcelona Graduates Final Collections

Inside 10 IED Barcelona Graduates Final Collections

IED Barcelona is one of the Graduate Fashion Foundation’s international member universities for 2020, and is part of a network of IED schools across Italy, Spain and Brazil. IED Barcelona Design School forms part of an international network dating back over 50 years specialising in Design, Fashion, Visual Arts, Communication and Management education. Below, you can meet 10 fashion design graduates who have created their final year projects inspired by a diverse and fearless range of themes: environmentalism, globalisation, religion, death, history and travel.

At Omula College, Tradition Meets Modernity

At Omula College, Tradition Meets Modernity

Get to know Omula Hairdressing And Fashion Professional Training College, one of the Graduate Fashion Foundation’s international member universities for 2020. Based in Fukuoka, Japan, the Omula Hairdressing And Fashion Professional Training College was founded in 1929 as one of the hairdressing salons in Fukuoka. Then it developed as a school, where Fashion Marketing, Flat Pattern Making and Sewing are taught.

Accademia Costume & Moda's Conceptual Creations

Accademia Costume & Moda's Conceptual Creations

We’re pleased to share the work of fashion graduates from Accademia Costume é Moda, one of the Graduate Fashion Foundation’s International universities for 2020. Situated in the heart of Rome, the university focuses on fashion and costume as key pillars of teaching, from which history, theory and research enrich the process of experimentation, craftsmanship, design and product. In the last 50 years, many world-renowned creative directors and designers have graduated from the Accademia, including Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele.

Sichuan Fine Art Institute Looks to the Future of Fashion

Sichuan Fine Art Institute Looks to the Future of Fashion

As an international member university of the Graduate Fashion Foundation, we’re thrilled to be able to share the work of a selection of Sichuan Fine Art Institute fashion design graduates, who have spent their degrees honing their skills in everything from costume design, fashion illustration, fabric design, accessories design and more.