Class of 2009

This is just a quick recap of the knitwear graduates 2009. Click on the below pictures to go to each designers interview.
I’ve just got to say that there has been such an immense amount of talent this year and it was really inspiring to look through everyones collections. If this doesn’t inspire the next batch of graduates [...]

Hannah Buswell

 
Hannah Buswell, 22. Ravensbourne College of Design.
Your Design Background:
During my second year at Ravensboure I did a three month placement with Cooperative Designs, working on their A/W 08 collection. During my time there I also helped them work on the Hussein Chalayan A/W 08 show, which was shown at Paris fashion week. Cooperative Designs have [...]

Sachio Kawasaki

Looking at this collection has sparked memories of doing those op-art projects back in school and copying whatever Bridget Riley had done. The collection by Central Saint Martins MA graduate Sachio Kawasaki is an optical art dream land. Definitely one of the most memorable collection for me from a graduate. 

Sachio presented his A/W 2009-10 collection [...]

Rachel Chan

One of the graduate collections I was insanely jealous of and wish I had made was Rachel Chan’s. She graduated last year from Central Saint Martins, grabbing the first runner up for the L’Oreal New Talent Award on the way and a feature in surface magazine.

The collection is inspired by ethnic fabrics, wallpaper pattern, geometric [...]

Hans Christian Madsen

This is the last of my menswear series for now, mainly because I’m already bored of looking at menswear and I have some great posts lined up. So…Hans Christian Madsen is a Danish Knitwear designer. After Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007 he went straight on to creating his debut A/W 2008 [...]