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Outside Truman Brewery during Graduate Fashion Week, will be an innovative, interesting and interactive project! The project is called SUYT (Show Us Your Talent) and consists of an installation in which design students can recreate their own atmosphere through a selected music and light settings, and have 10 minutes to show their talent via a digital white canvas, a design tablet with an intuitive software developed specially for the project.
Graduate Fashion Week is proud to announce its partnership with Tu at Sainsbury’s for the second year running. Following the success of last year, the 2017 partnership will see both a womenswear and menswear graduate receive a scholarship within the Tu design team. What’s more, the lucky graduates will embark on a year-long mentorship with acclaimed British designers Henry Holland and Oliver Spencer as they create a Graduate Fashion Week collection for Tu’s SS18 range.
We're happy to inform you all that new this year, we will be hosting a Social Media Award, sponsored by Boohoo! This gives one instagram savvy student, with impeccable curation skills the opportunity to win £750 with a £250 prize to the university.
Imagery is the cultural currency of our times. We are defined by what we do or don’t upload. Imagine social media as a shop window – allowing us to display our wares and talents to the wider market. Utilisation of this “window” can lead to new contacts, wider recognition and potential job prospects.
No longer side-lined as faddish or gimmicky, social media and its many evolving platforms has positioned itself at the forefront of how we communicate with each other in the 21st Century.
The social media tool of the moment is Instagram. The ability to instantly upload as well as curate the gallery like space lends itself nicely to fashion image making. Content is key regardless of how many followers you have or how many you follow.
This brief is to create and curate an Instagram Campaign which is relevant and reflective to the constantly evolving interface of fashion communication.
Submission is an Instagram campaign that the judges feel is outstanding in its contribution to the field and a supporting statement which outlines your objectives methodology, and outcomes.
You are not being judged on how many followers you have but on the originality of content plus your editorial skills through selection and production of imagery.
Here at GFW, we're pleased and proud to announce our sponsor M&S! They will be working with us for Graduate Fashion Week 2017, and we're delighted to have the support of such an established sponsor again this year.
The continued support of sponsors, in particular M&S, brings opportunities and experiences to fashion graduates from all over the UK and further afield. Graduate Fashion Week wouldn't be what is it today without the family of brands that help us all to push limits, refresh the industry and give a platform to young people coming out of uni.
There are plenty more exciting announcements to come, so watch this space!
