Meet GFW18 alumni, Anya Parker James, who since graduating three years ago has had an incredible start to her career. Anya has launched her own brand after a design role in a start up and since produced 3 mini collections!
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Meet GFF Talent, Yasmin Ibrahim, a graduate of The University of East London. Yasmin’s final collection delves into her personal and cultural history – confronting traumatic experiences and bravely reclaiming her body, narrative and future. Read about Yasmin’s work below. TW: Sexual assault and child abuse.
Get to know GFF Talent, Sally Stevenson. Sally is a fashion design and marketing graduate from Northumbria University, whose final major project is brand for 12-16-year-olds, which encourages the wearer to attach value and establish an emotional connection to their clothing. The first collection is inspired by the Lake District.
Meet GFF Talent, Pia-Maria Leberfinger, a fashion design graduate from AMD Akademie Mode & Design. Her final collection inspiration is set 100 years from now, in the year 2120. Exo-2120 is a future-thinking capsule of pieces that respond to the climate crisis and imagine what will be worn in the future. Aesthetically, the collection takes inspiration from retro-futurism of the 1950s, and Pia-Maria has meticulously built out the world around her collection.
Meet Chiara Corso, a fashion design graduate from Falmouth University. During lockdown, Chiara’s focus turned to exploring surrealism, consciousness and subconsciousness which became the basis of her womenswear collection. Experimenting with creative and unique shapes, tailoring and prints, her collection “Singularities” is a physical expression of complex emotions that arose during the pandemic.
Meet GFF Talent, Maddie Sugden, a fashion design and textile graduate from the University of Huddersfield. Maddie’s final project is a womenswear collection called Sisterhood, inspired by the world of women tattoo artists. Maddie has explored not only the aesthetics of tattoos, but the challenges and stigmas women in the traditionally male dominated sector face. Feminism and sustainability have driven this collection, which takes tailoring silhouettes from menswear and reimagines them for women.
Meet GFF Talent Natasha Simpson, a Fashion Design student at the University of South Wales. Natasha was inspired by her family connection to the Man Engine, the UK’s largest mechanical puppet that portrays a Cornish miner. Her womenswear collection is a capsule designed with function and longevity in mind. “Longevity is key with my collection and ensuring that the garments I create will be of quality and allow for an emotional connection to be formed between wearer and garment, allowing the garment to be used consistently and for a long period of time juxtaposing the themes in the fast fashion industry,” she says.
Meet GFW19 alumni, Sarah Thompson, who since graduating two years ago has had an incredibly eventful start to her career. Sarah found an internship in London with Self Portrait and then quickly after a job with River Island, which she began just before the global pandemic hit. Since then, Sarah has been busy working on her soon-to-launch brand, TOM-O, which upcycles old garments into new creations. She’s also collaborated with friends and other businesses to share her passion for recycling dead stock fabric.
Meet GFF Talent, Simone Dimitrova, a fashion design student from University of South Wales. Simone is inspired by her native country of Bulgaria in the creation of her womenswear collection, called ‘The Shared Memory.’ Looking to the ‘70s and 80s, she explores the connection between the consumer and designer, using fabrics found in her hometown.
Meet GFF Talent Kira Balla, a fashion student at Norwich University of the Arts. Kira’s final project is an exploration of something she has been fascinated by from a young age — crystals. Her womenswear collection uses crystals as a natural embellishment . She has been developing crystallising materials and learning about the parallels between these natural formations and people along the way.
Meet GFF Talent, Isabel Short, a Fashion media final year student from Solent University. Isabel explores Fashion Film within her final project and expands on how Covid-19 has made her plans adaptable . Read more below.
Meet Elise Keeling, a graduate from UCA Rochester. Elise was inspired by her experience of the UK’s music festivals in her collection, which also has a message about sustainability — she used recycled materials including sleeping bags to explore the issue. “My message is: to protect the beauty of nature and the natural world; and to create a constant discourse around the need for sustainability both in fashion – and in society,” says Elise.
Meet GFF Talent, Amelia Hughes, a fashion design graduate from Arts University Bournemouth. Amelia was inspired by a family holiday to Australia where she learned about the rich history and cultural traditions of Indigenous Australians. She has incorporated the use of paint to create body art, as well as silhouettes reminiscent of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House to create her collection of six garments.
Meet GFF Talent, Heena Gulabchande, fashion design graduate from University for the Creative Arts. Heena’s final project in inspired by Roman Gods, as well as iconic creatives like Salvador Dalí and Elsa Schiaparelli. Pleating, crustaceans and vintage clocks have all been referenced through Heena’s silhouettes. “The result is an ageless take on surrealism, highlighted with tailoring and organic shapes,” she says.
Meet GFF Talent, Mia Harris from Arts University Bournemouth. Mia’s final year project is inspired by photographs of her mum, which she reinterpreted as pop art images to create the aesthetic vision of her work. She used the collection as a way of thanking family and friends who had supported her through university. Combining pop art and recycled denim, Mia’s collection proves that old can become new again through a bit of imagination.
Meet GFF Talent, Sophie McPherson, a Fashion Branding and Communication graduate from Arts University Bournemouth. Sophie’s final project is called Lush Me, created to break down the taboos and educate women about their bodies. Lush Me is created for the brand Lush to be a product line of feminine hygiene range as well as a publication.
Meet Ffion Bronwyn McCormick-Edwards, a fashion graduate from Arts University Bournemouth. Ffion was inspired by her parents, their love of water skiing and their unique wedding photos to create this accessories collection. The ten piece collection includes from wallets, small phone bags to backpacks and weekend bags out of reclaimed neoprene and old zips from wetsuits.
Meet GFF Talent, Jasmine Guioua, a graduate from Arts University Bournemouth. Jasmine was inspired by her working class heritage and second generation immigrant roots in the creation of her platform that celebrates and gives a voice to working class creatives. “I wanted to my project to invoke a change in people's minds about what it means to be working-class and foreign in Britain,” she says.
Meet Stephanie Ransom, a fashion student from Arts University Bournemouth. Stephanie’s final major project is inspired by her dad, and the biker culture that he was involved in as a young man. Looking at past and present iterations of biking culture, Stephanie translated these influences into a menswear collection that has a strong sustainability focus, having created her her own leather alternative fabric for her collection.
Meet GFF Talent, Tamsin Bruce, a fashion design graduate from Arts University Bournemouth. Tamsin’s final project is called Ward/9 and is inspired by her experience of having a brain cyst as a child. She explores how the brain perceives information and the memories of her episodes of epilepsy and MRI scans are translated into a 7 piece womenswear collection.