An exclusive film by Liam Leslie captures the final crits of the renowned fashion school’s MA class. Here, six of the students featured unpack their final collections
“In my BA I was doing loads of drawing, and making up this world. I drew for a whole year straight, almost every day, and I was looking through my mum’s library too. My mum’s a set designer, my dad’s an actor, so we have loads and loads of plays, books about set design and costume and stuff like that. This then led me to the idea of proverbs and idioms, and the visuals of that was something I really enjoyed.
“I wanted to keep this idea because it was related to coming of age, because when we’re looking at the images from beginning to end, I was like, ‘OK, this is telling a story of where I am now.’ I chopped [the proverbs] up in half, and put them [back] together, and they made these like quiet nonsensical ones, which I thought were really beautiful. So those became the main focus of the whole collection.
“Everything is upcycled, it’s all from charity shops, and it’s all quite personal. I’m quite emotional with my work. I don’t use patterns, I cut everything freehand, and let them just fall into place. I’ve only ever bought new fabric once in my life – I couldn’t afford it as a kid, I always worked in charity shops. I have been obsessed with secondhand and vintage stuff since I can remember. If I design it wholeheartedly, then it no longer is the thing it used to be.
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