WOMENSWEAR DESIGNERS
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HONOR CAMERON
Honor Cameron is a Womenswear designer based in London. She completed her BA(Hons) degree in Fashion at the University of Brighton in 2019. Her design outcomes are often concept-driven and heavily influenced by a desire to embody a mood or feeling.
When creating her degree collection, Blackberrying, Honor used an introspective viewpoint to inspire her clothing, focusing on the feeling of nostalgia and fear.
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JOOHYE EMMA PARK
Having completed BA in Fashion in South Korea, Joohye Emma Park moved to London to pursue for her MA degree in Fashion at Kingston University. Her graduate collection is a manifesto which talks about the emancipation of women’s bodies, focused particularly on feminism. Her investigation into feminism has led her to question herself: whether she was a genuine feminist, or simply a trend follower. This contributed on her thinking about the authenticity with an additional question: Why has she become a feminist?
Read more
JOSEFINE ALMASANU
Josefine Almasanu’s designs tells a story of escapism, with a mood inspired from fantasy and nature. She is heavily influenced by costume design and historic dress such as the Victorian and Romanic eras. Furthermore, she tries to explore current issues in her work to give it modern relevance and reflect some of the ideals and debates from our time, while also keeping a sense of the past.
For a fantasy element, Almasanu often researches folklore for inspiration, especially influenced by Romanian and Scandinavian folktales, as this ties in with her own heritage.
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KATHERINE LEE
Katherine Lee is a womenswear designer from Hong Kong. She finished her BA Fashion degree at London College of Fashion in 2019, now based in London.
The key to Katherine's creation is to let each individual be distinctive. The idea is that not just design looks, but each piece can be unique pieces with a different style. She created the balance between structure, imperfection and the texture on clothing.
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KEJIA WUCHENG
Kejia Wucheng was born in Wuhan, the centre of China, and was raised in Shanghai, a cosmopolitan along the East Coast of China. She spent three years in Singapore to pursue her BA in Fashion degree, and in 2017 achieved her MA Fashion degree at Kingston University in London.
A large part of Kejia's life has been around moving from one cosmopolitan to another, and getting influenced significantly by their unique culture. She is also interested in architecture, as she believes architecture forms the most influencing symbol for any city.
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KELLY ATTENBERGER
Kelly Attenberger created a casual luxury womenswear collection inspired by her surroundings in the summer of 2016 spent in a rural part of Connecticut. This land previously owned by native American tribes 100 years ago, is now used to continue the teaching of traditional dances to keep skills alive for generations to come. Dances were performed in absence of traditional dress, creating the culture of Native Americans in the open wilderness by a lake and fire.
Read more
KELLY LANGRIDGE
Kelly Langridge is a Fashion Design with business studies graduate from Brighton University, who specialises within modern avant-garde womenswear that has a strong ethos of creating fashion that is impactful and evokes a reaction of awe.
Read more
KIM TIZIANA ROTTMULLER
Kim Tiziana Rottmüller has been working on her line since 2017 and graduated this summer 2018 after a 4-year BA program at Polimoda, Italy. She showcased since then twice at New York Fashion Week, at Vancouver Fashion Week, during London FW and Italy.
Her design signature lies in provocation through a feminine but also playful way which stress and complete the main idea of the concept that also provocation is beautiful too, as well as the discovery of oneself through her design. She pays a lot of attention that everything is connected in a coherent way, artistic and supported with a surrealistic impact.
Read more
KIRIE LEA
With a passion for textiles, Kirie Lea is an emerging sustainable womenswear and textiles designer, from Birmingham, United Kingdom. Telegraph’, the Times and ‘The Cambridge Independent.’
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KLOCKWISE
Klockwise is a contemporary knitwear brand founded in 2018, combining the classic elements, knit techniques and creating timeless romance designs. Like the hour hand moves around the clock, eternal and classic elements are brought from the past and move to the next with a new concept. As a 100% knitwear brand, Klockwise has been exploring the usage of different yarns and stitches.
Featured yarns with dedicated stitches not only are exquisite but also comfortable. Klockwise aims to provide elegant yet comfortable cocktail dresses and day wears for every woman who likes to dress up for her memorable moments.
Read more
KUN QIAN
Kun Qian is a Fashion and Textile designer of Chinese background based in London and graduate from Central Saint Martins. In some ways, her Chinese culture gives her a solid background as it is easy to find a strong oriental style in her collection. Her colour and print skills are deeply inspired by her Chinese ink painting background. As such, the whole collection looks like a fresh, elegant ink painting.
Read more
LAURA CAPELLO
Having travelled around Switzerland and Vienna, Laura Capello learnt about handcrafting techniques within women's tailoring. Her current collection is based on the combination of the Victorian times and sci-fi spacesuits. Both areas of highly detailed clothing and both having their own way of elegance.
Achieving a look which is feminine, elegant, modern and sexy was what Laura focussed on creating. With a simple colour palette and an eye for construction and detail, the collection has a clean grown up feel for a sophisticated woman.
Read more
LAURA GACCI
With a passion for Italian artisanal traditions and with a curiosity for the thoughts and traditions of other cultures, Laura Gacci is a designer based in Italy.
During the time when she was pursuing her three-year Fashion Design degree at Marangoni Institute in Florence, Laura had developed her style always taking into account the most important values of life.
Read more
LAURA MERRETT
Laura Merrett is a London based womenswear design graduate from the University for Creative Arts, Epsom. Her main design aesthetic combines contemporary soft tailing references with various fabric manipulation and drape techniques. She also enjoys the use of combining different textures, prints and colours throughout her work.
Read more
LAURA-SHANNON HARDING
Having a love for colour, Laura-Shannon creates fun and playful pieces that feature heavy use of embellishment, texture and print.
DAn appreciation for festival culture and its judgement-free atmosphere has informed the eccentric aesthetic and silhouettes of her designs within the ‘Make every day A Festival’ collection; a history of mockery for her personal and colourful style has motivated her to produce garments that truly reflect how far boundaries can be pushed within festival fashion.
Read more
LILI ZHAO
LILI ZHAO: My work is mainly based on the tension of material, structure and human body. This collection is called 'Disobedience'. The initial inspiration is from Henry David Thoreau's article 'Civil Disobedience' which brings me a sense of living and inspires me to focus on how to liberate the human body and conscious in a homogeneous society. I create my own methodology based on experiments and the original pattern cutting technique half-cut.
Read more
LAURA JASIUNAITE
Laura Jasiunaite is a fashion designer focusing on slow, sustainable and avant-garde fashion. All her designs are one of a kind unique pieces. As a recent Fashion Pattern Cutting graduate from London College of Fashion, she focuses on the cut and drape of garments creating innovative as well as well constructed tailored garments. All of her pieces are made out of natural fibers, the ones she uses most commonly are linen, cotton, silk and wool.
Read more
LINH NGUYEN
Linh Nguyen is a Vietnamese designer born in Czech Republic and has recently graduated from London College of Fashion. Always intrigued by the different ways culture and language allows one to perceive the surroundings and understand one self, in her last year at London College of Fashion Linh has created a collection inspired by the merging of cultures inspired by the stories of her parents immigrating to Czechoslovakia( at the time) in the 1980, capturing their identity change and exploration of youth.
Read more
LIZA KAIN
Liza Kain’s graduate collection ‘Perennial Fable’ is a recreation of the image defined by surreal beauty as a mythical figure hidden behind layers of illusive fabric. We are left to wonder what is beneath all of this beauty, thus furthering the complexity of the women.
The process of her journey is depicted by a blooming flower and followed by the dramatic effect of decaying. Intense textile methods, intrusive embellishments, loose threads and complex constructions intertwine and reflect on the hidden layers of timeless femininity.
Read more
LOUISE DESOEUVRE
Louise Desoeuvre is a french Womenswear designer based in Paris and Brittany. With a passion for storytelling and archives, she aims to create meaningful and powerful designs. Louise studied her BA in Fashion Design at Bath Spa University. She had always been focused on how cultural heritage can be preserved and endlessly reinterpreted. She is also very much inspired by youth subcultures and by the dialogue between identity, culture and dress through the time.
Read more
LUCY BAXTER
Lucy Baxter is a British womenswear designer based in London. As a designer she challenges the boundaries of handcrafts by experimenting with innovative and sustainable techniques infusing glitter, glamour, colour and texture into her designs.
Her collection ‘BeDazzled’ opened Kingston University's MA 2018 fashion show, it was also selected to show at Wuhan Fashion Week 2018 in China.
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LYDIA FUNG SZE KI
Lydia Fung is a multimedia designer based in London and Hong Kong, she began her journey in painting when she was studying fine art in Boston at an early age. She later on expanded her pursuit in painting from canvas to textile and completed her BA in surface textile at London College of Fashion.
Lydia has always been fascinated by how a 3D object can transition into a 2D form from different perspectives; therefore, her practice also revolves around this idea by making textiles looking like an object, and making garments looking like a painting.
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LYDIA JACKSON
Lydia With a passion for reaching out and discovering the raw beauty of others within different cultures, Lydia Jackson is a womenswear designer specialising in print-based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
During her time at University, she pushed her creativity into her design work and translated her personal experiences into inspiration for her first collection.
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MABEL TALLULAH
MABEL TALLULAH is a fashion designer focused on creating genderless clothing based in Leeds, with skills and experience in Womenswear and Menswear design and pattern cutting. During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design at Leeds Arts University, Mabel has been interested in sustainability and removing gender from fashion, addressing the problems of social constructs through design.
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MADDIE WILLIAMS
Maddie William’s visual signature as a designer is highly structured, exaggerated silhouettes paired with textural and innovative textiles, which are often hand crafted or embellished. She works conceptually and uses ideals and narratives to drive her design process.
The narrative of her graduate collection imagines a group of six Goddess- type figures who are here to serve as the antithesis of the Elitist White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy and strike fear into the hearts of harmful Corporations.
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MADDY STRINGER
Maddy Stringer, born in Somerset, UK, is a recent fashion design graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. Her specialism lies in textile and material development, exploring tactility and three-dimensional surfaces for fashion.
Her S/S 19 graduate collection took inspiration from the beauty in the mundane and the human desire to collect, focusing on her own childhood collections.
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MALENE AHLERT
Aiming to transport her vision of femininity, Malene Ahlert is studying fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
For her second year collection in Antwerp she was strongly inspired by the movements in contemporary dance and how the body influences the look of the garments.
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MANIMEKALA
Launched in 2018, Manimekala is a brand based on a dream: beautiful fashion that empowers both the wearer and the makers. While studying on the University of Westminster's prestigious BA (Hons) Fashion course, Manimekala Fuller gained international experience in the fashion industry, interning under designers Manish Arora and Roksanda Illinčić, amongst others. Upon graduation, her love for colour and pattern as a form of wearable expression led her to establish her namesake brand, for those who dream.
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MANON PLANCHE
Manon Planche is a colourful label sporting unapologetic bold printed pieces that are both comfortable and unconventional. It is inspired by and created for people who are not afraid to stand out.
The founder, Manon, wishes to present her collections as a form of expression both for herself and the people wearing her designs. This is a story of shared love and bursts of happiness. Fashion design is meaningful to Manon, she believes fashion design should help people dare to express themselves through what they wear and how they wish to wear it.
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MARIA-RALUCA STREANG
Dedicated to combining traditional craftsmanship with technical innovation, Maria-Raluca Streang is a London based Womenswear designer, focused on fabric sustainability.
While completing her BA in Fashion Design Technology at Arts University Bournemouth, Maria focused on marrying the old and the new, exploring cultural identity and its effects on one's emotional wellbeing. She uses new-age fabrics and upcycling techniques to tell her story.
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MARGAUX LALANNE
Margaux Lalanne is a French fashion and costume designer who studied Womenswear at Central Saint Martins, London. She developed her designs through a process of continuous reflection and refinement of her toiles in reaction to her conceptual development and experimentation on the subject of presence and absence of body and spirit.
She has a acute sense of taste in her understanding of colour and fabric and her collection features strong sculptural designs and moving drapes.
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MARINE BEYBUDYAN
During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design Technology in London College of Fashion, Marine focused on researching emotions and mental health issues.
Marine Beybudyan's graduate collection initially was inspired by Louise Bourgeois artwork, exploring an idea of knots as a form of therapy for mental illnesses. Bourgeois considered art as a "form of psychoanalysis", offering unique access to the unconscious, as well as a form of psychological release. Exploration of knotted shapes convey mixed emotions and feelings such as anxiety, fear and anger.
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MARRISA WILSON NY
Marrisa Wilson NY was founded in 2016 by Marrisa Wilson - first generation Guyanese American born and raised in New Jersey. Wilson majored in Fashion Design with double minors in Fashion Merchandising and Product Development, receiving her BFA in May of 2015. In fall 2013, Wilson spent a semester abroad in Paris, honing her skills at both the Mod'Spe International School of Merchandising and Paris College of Art.
As a two time Fashion Scholarship Fund Winner, Wilson has had an impressive resume with names such as J. Mendel, Oscar de la Renta, rag & bone, and Calvin Klein.
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MATILDA ABERG
Matilda Aberg began her fashion studies at an early age studying tailoring/fashion design at high school in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of 19 she moved to London to work for the couture department at Vivienne Westwood. Matilda then pursued her fashion studies with a BA in Fashion Design Womenswear at London College of Fashion.
Matilda’s graduate collection is based on a story inspired by Swedish folk myth about femme fatals, sisterhood and revenge in the dark Northern forests of the 17th century.
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MAX ZARA STERCK
Max Zara is a womenswear designer with a passion for shapes, creative pattern cutting and technical solutions. From a personal fascination with the body as a way to express, Max Zara designs clothing wherein movement plays a leading role. Max Zara tries to unite her designs with the body and its flow, listening to the voice of the material worn.
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MEGAN CUMMINGS
With an interest in distorting the eye and diffusing the line between real life and the surreal. Megan Cummings is a womenswear designer, although not wanting to strictly adhere her designs to one gender she encourages anyone to wear her creations.
Megan Cummings graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 2019 with a digital fashion degree. During her time studying digital fashion design, Cummings focused on advancing her creative pattern cutting skills and developing laser cutting techniques to produce dynamic silhouettes.
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MEGAN GREENFIELD
Storytelling is a familiar pastime and one of the most ancient and compelling human rituals. This notion is important to Megan Greenfield, and the most exciting way for her to being her design practice. She can not resist the art of creating another story from the very beginning; to form a narrative to design around, and to know who it is that she is designing for. The tale for her final collection starts with an exploration into her own family heritage.
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MEGAN STRANGE
Raised in a quiet seaside town, Megan Strange moved to London to pursue her career in Fashion. She graduated from Ravensbourne University in 2017 with a BA Honours in Fashion Design specialising in womenswear. Megan’s design signature is a taking contemporary elements and applying them onto classic styles. Her graduate collection is inspired by her time at university and the negative aspects she had to overcome.
At the age of 18 Megan was awarded the Valter Prize, the award being for the most successfully manufactured and considered garment in the whole of the County of Dorset.
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MELANIE YAU
Using a combination of traditional Chinese and Japanese wear with elements of modern European garments, Melanie’s collection focuses on using origami shapes and tailoring techniques to create a gender-neutral collection.
Flowers were the motif of the collection. Using different folding techniques, Melanie applied this to her garment to create volume and three-dimensional shapes, focusing the drama on the top half of the body. In contrast, clean lines and refined tailoring were used on the bottom half, a happy medium between tradition and modernity, simple and decorative.
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MICHEL KABBANY
Michel Kabbany is a Lebanese Armenian fashion designer. Beirut based since his early years, Michel was born in the modern 90’s with an indisputable love to eccentric arts and fashion.
His passion paved his way through one of the most renowned fashion schools in Beirut; ESMOD (École Supérieure des Arts et Technique de la Mode) following the steps of the biggest names in the business. Alumni of 2012, Michel debuted his professional career surrounded by the best names in the market through Dubai and Beirut including Azzi & Osta.
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MICHELLE MCAULEY
Throughout her time studying fashion at Edinburgh College of Art, Michelle has acquired a broad range of design skill and gained her own profound design and development ideas.
With her strong connection with Celtic heritage, from the Glens of Antrim, along the North Coast of Ireland, her family roots date back here for generations. This strong link with heritage has provided her with inspiration throughout her design process.
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MINJAE CHANG
With a passion for storytelling and listening to other people's stories, Minjae Chang is a Womenswear designer based in Seoul and Antwerp.
During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Royal Academy of fine arts Antwerp, Minjae treated problematic issues from overall society such as labour environments and this time - the immigration issue.
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MISSY WU
Missy Wu is a Chinese womenswear designer who gained training in China, Japan and UK. Having had education experiences in different countries lead to a heightened interest in the exploration of diversity in different cultures and ways of thinking, both informing her designs.
Missy has a feminine, twisted vision of female empowerment. She started thinking more about femininity during her MA at London College of Fashion and it was this concept that also inspired her master project.
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MOLLY KATHRYN
Based in London, Molly is an artistic designer with a love for illustrative visuals and embellished textiles. Her graduate collection, which explores androgyny and rebellion during the punk rock and grunge wave of the ’80s and ’90s, was originally inspired by the music she grew up with and the general ethos that the younger generation adopted.
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MONA CORDES
Iconic storm of colour and pattern speaks for Fashion Print designer Mona Cordes who is based in London.
Her Graduate Collection, which was selected to be shown in the Middlesex University's Press Show at Somerset House, was inspired by the circus, and by personal photos and memories of her childhood where she dressed as a clown.
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MYA SUBONG
Focusing on colour and lively print and pattern, Mya’s aim in her creations is to bring a sense of fun to her clothing as a womenswear designer.
Studying in Birmingham City allowed her to experiment and learn different ways to embellish and enhance fabrics, using those techniques to play with a staple fashion print - the cheetah/leopard print - for her final collection.
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OLGA BASKAKOVA
O is a Womenswear designer based in Russia and London, who explores the notion of ‘clothing’.
During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear in London College of Fashion, O had always been passioned about the design and construction processes of the garments.
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POLINA OLEYNIKOVA
With a passion for art and culture, Polina Oleynikova is a Womenswear designer based in Moscow, Russia and London.
During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design in Arts University Bournemouth, Polina had always been focused on the idea whether fashion is art and how she can make clothes speak.
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POPPY SIMONE DOWSING
Poppy Simone Dowsing is a textile print designer, focusing on luxury womenswear and resort wear. She uses her collections to push the boundaries of surface design, prints and silhouettes. Inspiration for Poppy comes through travel, photography and iconic women through history. The strengths of the women who shaped the fashion industry are printed into every piece of clothing.
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RADVILE KISIELIUTE
Radvilė Kisieliūtė obtained a BA Fashion Design at the University of Bedfordshire and has worked in the fashion industry for bespoke and high fashion companies. After gaining master’s degree in University of Arts London in Costume Design for Performance, she also designs and makes costumes for live performances, films and other art projects.
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REBECCA AYDON
During her time at Kingston School of Art, Founder Rebecca had always been focused on how she can bring beautiful embellishments and bold colours into pre-existing fabrics. A strong love for vintage clothing has informed the bold aesthetic and silhouette.
REBECCA HOLMES
Combining inspiration from the Stockholm Royal Palace with design influence of the 1920s and 1930’s Rebecca re-created the abundance of a time past, in a knitwear collection titled ‘The Age of Parade’.
The overly ornate and magnificent state rooms of the palace oozed luxe and excess; colour coordinated interiors in regal colours and hanging with tapestries are edged in an overabundance of gold. Drawing influence from silhouettes from the art deco era she challenged herself in re-creating these ideas in knitwear, imitating fabrication within knit and pattern cutting to work as fully fashioned knitted garments.
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RHIANNON LEWIS
Rhiannon Lewis’s graduate collection is based on the idea of feminism and taking a new approach in what is seen as the feminine ideal. Her influences include elements from urban/streetwear and enhancing the female form with silhouette and design features.
Her aesthetic was the idea of glamourising sportswear, through fabric choices of urban navy denim and contrasting with pink duchess satin and silk-like materials, alongside gold detailing.
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HANNAH GILBERT
Hannah Gilbert is a young British designer who spent most of her childhood playing sport and creating art. Through sport Hannah appreciates working in a team and recognises the power of female comradery. She graduated Kingston School of Art.
Her goal is to design innovative, long lasting sportswear that will encourage people to be more active and to create a healthier society, as well as a cleaner planet.
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Hannah Gilbert is a young British designer who spent most of her childhood playing sport and creating art. Through sport Hannah appreciates working in a team and recognises the power of female comradery. She graduated Kingston School of Art.Her goal is to design innovative, long lasting sportswear that will encourage people to be more active and to create a healthier society, as well as a cleaner planet.
Read more
HENRIETTA O'CONNOR
Eponymous label - Henrietta O’Connor - is driven by a fascination with fashion as a form of storytelling. Presenting a vision that is strangely familiar yet unfamiliar. With a deeply personal approach, synergies of contrasting ideas are crafted - reflecting Creative Director, Henrietta O’Connor’s own multifaceted identity and culture, while being influenced by the history and traditions of art.
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Eponymous label - Henrietta O’Connor - is driven by a fascination with fashion as a form of storytelling. Presenting a vision that is strangely familiar yet unfamiliar. With a deeply personal approach, synergies of contrasting ideas are crafted - reflecting Creative Director, Henrietta O’Connor’s own multifaceted identity and culture, while being influenced by the history and traditions of art.Read more
HONOR CAMERON
Honor Cameron is a Womenswear designer based in London. She completed her BA(Hons) degree in Fashion at the University of Brighton in 2019. Her design outcomes are often concept-driven and heavily influenced by a desire to embody a mood or feeling. When creating her degree collection, Blackberrying, Honor used an introspective viewpoint to inspire her clothing, focusing on the feeling of nostalgia and fear.
Read more
JOOHYE EMMA PARK
Having completed BA in Fashion in South Korea, Joohye Emma Park moved to London to pursue for her MA degree in Fashion at Kingston University. Her graduate collection is a manifesto which talks about the emancipation of women’s bodies, focused particularly on feminism. Her investigation into feminism has led her to question herself: whether she was a genuine feminist, or simply a trend follower. This contributed on her thinking about the authenticity with an additional question: Why has she become a feminist?Read more
JOSEFINE ALMASANU
Josefine Almasanu’s designs tells a story of escapism, with a mood inspired from fantasy and nature. She is heavily influenced by costume design and historic dress such as the Victorian and Romanic eras. Furthermore, she tries to explore current issues in her work to give it modern relevance and reflect some of the ideals and debates from our time, while also keeping a sense of the past. For a fantasy element, Almasanu often researches folklore for inspiration, especially influenced by Romanian and Scandinavian folktales, as this ties in with her own heritage.
Read more
KATHERINE LEE
Katherine Lee is a womenswear designer from Hong Kong. She finished her BA Fashion degree at London College of Fashion in 2019, now based in London. The key to Katherine's creation is to let each individual be distinctive. The idea is that not just design looks, but each piece can be unique pieces with a different style. She created the balance between structure, imperfection and the texture on clothing.
Read more
KEJIA WUCHENG
Kejia Wucheng was born in Wuhan, the centre of China, and was raised in Shanghai, a cosmopolitan along the East Coast of China. She spent three years in Singapore to pursue her BA in Fashion degree, and in 2017 achieved her MA Fashion degree at Kingston University in London.A large part of Kejia's life has been around moving from one cosmopolitan to another, and getting influenced significantly by their unique culture. She is also interested in architecture, as she believes architecture forms the most influencing symbol for any city.
Read more
KELLY ATTENBERGER
Kelly Attenberger created a casual luxury womenswear collection inspired by her surroundings in the summer of 2016 spent in a rural part of Connecticut. This land previously owned by native American tribes 100 years ago, is now used to continue the teaching of traditional dances to keep skills alive for generations to come. Dances were performed in absence of traditional dress, creating the culture of Native Americans in the open wilderness by a lake and fire. Read more
KELLY LANGRIDGE
Kelly Langridge is a Fashion Design with business studies graduate from Brighton University, who specialises within modern avant-garde womenswear that has a strong ethos of creating fashion that is impactful and evokes a reaction of awe.Read more
KIM TIZIANA ROTTMULLER
Kim Tiziana Rottmüller has been working on her line since 2017 and graduated this summer 2018 after a 4-year BA program at Polimoda, Italy. She showcased since then twice at New York Fashion Week, at Vancouver Fashion Week, during London FW and Italy.Her design signature lies in provocation through a feminine but also playful way which stress and complete the main idea of the concept that also provocation is beautiful too, as well as the discovery of oneself through her design. She pays a lot of attention that everything is connected in a coherent way, artistic and supported with a surrealistic impact.
Read more
KIRIE LEA
With a passion for textiles, Kirie Lea is an emerging sustainable womenswear and textiles designer, from Birmingham, United Kingdom. Telegraph’, the Times and ‘The Cambridge Independent.’Read more
KLOCKWISE
Klockwise is a contemporary knitwear brand founded in 2018, combining the classic elements, knit techniques and creating timeless romance designs. Like the hour hand moves around the clock, eternal and classic elements are brought from the past and move to the next with a new concept. As a 100% knitwear brand, Klockwise has been exploring the usage of different yarns and stitches.Featured yarns with dedicated stitches not only are exquisite but also comfortable. Klockwise aims to provide elegant yet comfortable cocktail dresses and day wears for every woman who likes to dress up for her memorable moments.
Read more
KUN QIAN
Kun Qian is a Fashion and Textile designer of Chinese background based in London and graduate from Central Saint Martins. In some ways, her Chinese culture gives her a solid background as it is easy to find a strong oriental style in her collection. Her colour and print skills are deeply inspired by her Chinese ink painting background. As such, the whole collection looks like a fresh, elegant ink painting.Read more
LAURA CAPELLO
Having travelled around Switzerland and Vienna, Laura Capello learnt about handcrafting techniques within women's tailoring. Her current collection is based on the combination of the Victorian times and sci-fi spacesuits. Both areas of highly detailed clothing and both having their own way of elegance.Achieving a look which is feminine, elegant, modern and sexy was what Laura focussed on creating. With a simple colour palette and an eye for construction and detail, the collection has a clean grown up feel for a sophisticated woman.
Read more
LAURA GACCI
With a passion for Italian artisanal traditions and with a curiosity for the thoughts and traditions of other cultures, Laura Gacci is a designer based in Italy.During the time when she was pursuing her three-year Fashion Design degree at Marangoni Institute in Florence, Laura had developed her style always taking into account the most important values of life.
Read more
LAURA MERRETT
Laura Merrett is a London based womenswear design graduate from the University for Creative Arts, Epsom. Her main design aesthetic combines contemporary soft tailing references with various fabric manipulation and drape techniques. She also enjoys the use of combining different textures, prints and colours throughout her work. Read more
LAURA-SHANNON HARDING
Having a love for colour, Laura-Shannon creates fun and playful pieces that feature heavy use of embellishment, texture and print.DAn appreciation for festival culture and its judgement-free atmosphere has informed the eccentric aesthetic and silhouettes of her designs within the ‘Make every day A Festival’ collection; a history of mockery for her personal and colourful style has motivated her to produce garments that truly reflect how far boundaries can be pushed within festival fashion.
Read more
LILI ZHAO
LILI ZHAO: My work is mainly based on the tension of material, structure and human body. This collection is called 'Disobedience'. The initial inspiration is from Henry David Thoreau's article 'Civil Disobedience' which brings me a sense of living and inspires me to focus on how to liberate the human body and conscious in a homogeneous society. I create my own methodology based on experiments and the original pattern cutting technique half-cut.Read more
LAURA JASIUNAITE
Laura Jasiunaite is a fashion designer focusing on slow, sustainable and avant-garde fashion. All her designs are one of a kind unique pieces. As a recent Fashion Pattern Cutting graduate from London College of Fashion, she focuses on the cut and drape of garments creating innovative as well as well constructed tailored garments. All of her pieces are made out of natural fibers, the ones she uses most commonly are linen, cotton, silk and wool. Read more
LINH NGUYEN
Linh Nguyen is a Vietnamese designer born in Czech Republic and has recently graduated from London College of Fashion. Always intrigued by the different ways culture and language allows one to perceive the surroundings and understand one self, in her last year at London College of Fashion Linh has created a collection inspired by the merging of cultures inspired by the stories of her parents immigrating to Czechoslovakia( at the time) in the 1980, capturing their identity change and exploration of youth.Read more
LIZA KAIN
Liza Kain’s graduate collection ‘Perennial Fable’ is a recreation of the image defined by surreal beauty as a mythical figure hidden behind layers of illusive fabric. We are left to wonder what is beneath all of this beauty, thus furthering the complexity of the women. The process of her journey is depicted by a blooming flower and followed by the dramatic effect of decaying. Intense textile methods, intrusive embellishments, loose threads and complex constructions intertwine and reflect on the hidden layers of timeless femininity.
Read more
LOUISE DESOEUVRE
Louise Desoeuvre is a french Womenswear designer based in Paris and Brittany. With a passion for storytelling and archives, she aims to create meaningful and powerful designs. Louise studied her BA in Fashion Design at Bath Spa University. She had always been focused on how cultural heritage can be preserved and endlessly reinterpreted. She is also very much inspired by youth subcultures and by the dialogue between identity, culture and dress through the time.Read more
LUCY BAXTER
Lucy Baxter is a British womenswear designer based in London. As a designer she challenges the boundaries of handcrafts by experimenting with innovative and sustainable techniques infusing glitter, glamour, colour and texture into her designs.Her collection ‘BeDazzled’ opened Kingston University's MA 2018 fashion show, it was also selected to show at Wuhan Fashion Week 2018 in China.
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LYDIA FUNG SZE KI
Lydia Fung is a multimedia designer based in London and Hong Kong, she began her journey in painting when she was studying fine art in Boston at an early age. She later on expanded her pursuit in painting from canvas to textile and completed her BA in surface textile at London College of Fashion. Lydia has always been fascinated by how a 3D object can transition into a 2D form from different perspectives; therefore, her practice also revolves around this idea by making textiles looking like an object, and making garments looking like a painting.
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LYDIA JACKSON
Lydia With a passion for reaching out and discovering the raw beauty of others within different cultures, Lydia Jackson is a womenswear designer specialising in print-based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. During her time at University, she pushed her creativity into her design work and translated her personal experiences into inspiration for her first collection.
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MABEL TALLULAH
MABEL TALLULAH is a fashion designer focused on creating genderless clothing based in Leeds, with skills and experience in Womenswear and Menswear design and pattern cutting. During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design at Leeds Arts University, Mabel has been interested in sustainability and removing gender from fashion, addressing the problems of social constructs through design.Read more
MADDIE WILLIAMS
Maddie William’s visual signature as a designer is highly structured, exaggerated silhouettes paired with textural and innovative textiles, which are often hand crafted or embellished. She works conceptually and uses ideals and narratives to drive her design process. The narrative of her graduate collection imagines a group of six Goddess- type figures who are here to serve as the antithesis of the Elitist White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy and strike fear into the hearts of harmful Corporations.
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MADDY STRINGER
Maddy Stringer, born in Somerset, UK, is a recent fashion design graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. Her specialism lies in textile and material development, exploring tactility and three-dimensional surfaces for fashion.Her S/S 19 graduate collection took inspiration from the beauty in the mundane and the human desire to collect, focusing on her own childhood collections.
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MALENE AHLERT
Aiming to transport her vision of femininity, Malene Ahlert is studying fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. For her second year collection in Antwerp she was strongly inspired by the movements in contemporary dance and how the body influences the look of the garments.
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MANIMEKALA
Launched in 2018, Manimekala is a brand based on a dream: beautiful fashion that empowers both the wearer and the makers. While studying on the University of Westminster's prestigious BA (Hons) Fashion course, Manimekala Fuller gained international experience in the fashion industry, interning under designers Manish Arora and Roksanda Illinčić, amongst others. Upon graduation, her love for colour and pattern as a form of wearable expression led her to establish her namesake brand, for those who dream.Read more
MANON PLANCHE
Manon Planche is a colourful label sporting unapologetic bold printed pieces that are both comfortable and unconventional. It is inspired by and created for people who are not afraid to stand out.The founder, Manon, wishes to present her collections as a form of expression both for herself and the people wearing her designs. This is a story of shared love and bursts of happiness. Fashion design is meaningful to Manon, she believes fashion design should help people dare to express themselves through what they wear and how they wish to wear it.
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MARIA-RALUCA STREANG
Dedicated to combining traditional craftsmanship with technical innovation, Maria-Raluca Streang is a London based Womenswear designer, focused on fabric sustainability.While completing her BA in Fashion Design Technology at Arts University Bournemouth, Maria focused on marrying the old and the new, exploring cultural identity and its effects on one's emotional wellbeing. She uses new-age fabrics and upcycling techniques to tell her story.
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MARGAUX LALANNE
Margaux Lalanne is a French fashion and costume designer who studied Womenswear at Central Saint Martins, London. She developed her designs through a process of continuous reflection and refinement of her toiles in reaction to her conceptual development and experimentation on the subject of presence and absence of body and spirit.She has a acute sense of taste in her understanding of colour and fabric and her collection features strong sculptural designs and moving drapes.
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MARINE BEYBUDYAN
During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design Technology in London College of Fashion, Marine focused on researching emotions and mental health issues.Marine Beybudyan's graduate collection initially was inspired by Louise Bourgeois artwork, exploring an idea of knots as a form of therapy for mental illnesses. Bourgeois considered art as a "form of psychoanalysis", offering unique access to the unconscious, as well as a form of psychological release. Exploration of knotted shapes convey mixed emotions and feelings such as anxiety, fear and anger.
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MARRISA WILSON NY
Marrisa Wilson NY was founded in 2016 by Marrisa Wilson - first generation Guyanese American born and raised in New Jersey. Wilson majored in Fashion Design with double minors in Fashion Merchandising and Product Development, receiving her BFA in May of 2015. In fall 2013, Wilson spent a semester abroad in Paris, honing her skills at both the Mod'Spe International School of Merchandising and Paris College of Art. As a two time Fashion Scholarship Fund Winner, Wilson has had an impressive resume with names such as J. Mendel, Oscar de la Renta, rag & bone, and Calvin Klein.
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MATILDA ABERG
Matilda Aberg began her fashion studies at an early age studying tailoring/fashion design at high school in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of 19 she moved to London to work for the couture department at Vivienne Westwood. Matilda then pursued her fashion studies with a BA in Fashion Design Womenswear at London College of Fashion. Matilda’s graduate collection is based on a story inspired by Swedish folk myth about femme fatals, sisterhood and revenge in the dark Northern forests of the 17th century.
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MAX ZARA STERCK
Max Zara is a womenswear designer with a passion for shapes, creative pattern cutting and technical solutions. From a personal fascination with the body as a way to express, Max Zara designs clothing wherein movement plays a leading role. Max Zara tries to unite her designs with the body and its flow, listening to the voice of the material worn.Read more
MEGAN CUMMINGS
With an interest in distorting the eye and diffusing the line between real life and the surreal. Megan Cummings is a womenswear designer, although not wanting to strictly adhere her designs to one gender she encourages anyone to wear her creations. Megan Cummings graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 2019 with a digital fashion degree. During her time studying digital fashion design, Cummings focused on advancing her creative pattern cutting skills and developing laser cutting techniques to produce dynamic silhouettes.
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MEGAN GREENFIELD
Storytelling is a familiar pastime and one of the most ancient and compelling human rituals. This notion is important to Megan Greenfield, and the most exciting way for her to being her design practice. She can not resist the art of creating another story from the very beginning; to form a narrative to design around, and to know who it is that she is designing for. The tale for her final collection starts with an exploration into her own family heritage.Read more
MEGAN STRANGE
Raised in a quiet seaside town, Megan Strange moved to London to pursue her career in Fashion. She graduated from Ravensbourne University in 2017 with a BA Honours in Fashion Design specialising in womenswear. Megan’s design signature is a taking contemporary elements and applying them onto classic styles. Her graduate collection is inspired by her time at university and the negative aspects she had to overcome.At the age of 18 Megan was awarded the Valter Prize, the award being for the most successfully manufactured and considered garment in the whole of the County of Dorset.
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MELANIE YAU
Using a combination of traditional Chinese and Japanese wear with elements of modern European garments, Melanie’s collection focuses on using origami shapes and tailoring techniques to create a gender-neutral collection. Flowers were the motif of the collection. Using different folding techniques, Melanie applied this to her garment to create volume and three-dimensional shapes, focusing the drama on the top half of the body. In contrast, clean lines and refined tailoring were used on the bottom half, a happy medium between tradition and modernity, simple and decorative.
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MICHEL KABBANY
Michel Kabbany is a Lebanese Armenian fashion designer. Beirut based since his early years, Michel was born in the modern 90’s with an indisputable love to eccentric arts and fashion.His passion paved his way through one of the most renowned fashion schools in Beirut; ESMOD (École Supérieure des Arts et Technique de la Mode) following the steps of the biggest names in the business. Alumni of 2012, Michel debuted his professional career surrounded by the best names in the market through Dubai and Beirut including Azzi & Osta.
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MICHELLE MCAULEY
Throughout her time studying fashion at Edinburgh College of Art, Michelle has acquired a broad range of design skill and gained her own profound design and development ideas. With her strong connection with Celtic heritage, from the Glens of Antrim, along the North Coast of Ireland, her family roots date back here for generations. This strong link with heritage has provided her with inspiration throughout her design process.
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MINJAE CHANG
With a passion for storytelling and listening to other people's stories, Minjae Chang is a Womenswear designer based in Seoul and Antwerp.During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Royal Academy of fine arts Antwerp, Minjae treated problematic issues from overall society such as labour environments and this time - the immigration issue.
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MISSY WU
Missy Wu is a Chinese womenswear designer who gained training in China, Japan and UK. Having had education experiences in different countries lead to a heightened interest in the exploration of diversity in different cultures and ways of thinking, both informing her designs. Missy has a feminine, twisted vision of female empowerment. She started thinking more about femininity during her MA at London College of Fashion and it was this concept that also inspired her master project.
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MOLLY KATHRYN
Based in London, Molly is an artistic designer with a love for illustrative visuals and embellished textiles. Her graduate collection, which explores androgyny and rebellion during the punk rock and grunge wave of the ’80s and ’90s, was originally inspired by the music she grew up with and the general ethos that the younger generation adopted.Read more
MONA CORDES
Iconic storm of colour and pattern speaks for Fashion Print designer Mona Cordes who is based in London.Her Graduate Collection, which was selected to be shown in the Middlesex University's Press Show at Somerset House, was inspired by the circus, and by personal photos and memories of her childhood where she dressed as a clown.
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MYA SUBONG
Focusing on colour and lively print and pattern, Mya’s aim in her creations is to bring a sense of fun to her clothing as a womenswear designer. Studying in Birmingham City allowed her to experiment and learn different ways to embellish and enhance fabrics, using those techniques to play with a staple fashion print - the cheetah/leopard print - for her final collection.
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OLGA BASKAKOVA
O is a Womenswear designer based in Russia and London, who explores the notion of ‘clothing’.During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear in London College of Fashion, O had always been passioned about the design and construction processes of the garments.
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POLINA OLEYNIKOVA
With a passion for art and culture, Polina Oleynikova is a Womenswear designer based in Moscow, Russia and London.During the time when she was pursuing her BA in Fashion Design in Arts University Bournemouth, Polina had always been focused on the idea whether fashion is art and how she can make clothes speak.
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POPPY SIMONE DOWSING
Poppy Simone Dowsing is a textile print designer, focusing on luxury womenswear and resort wear. She uses her collections to push the boundaries of surface design, prints and silhouettes. Inspiration for Poppy comes through travel, photography and iconic women through history. The strengths of the women who shaped the fashion industry are printed into every piece of clothing.Read more
RADVILE KISIELIUTE
Radvilė Kisieliūtė obtained a BA Fashion Design at the University of Bedfordshire and has worked in the fashion industry for bespoke and high fashion companies. After gaining master’s degree in University of Arts London in Costume Design for Performance, she also designs and makes costumes for live performances, films and other art projects.Read more
REBECCA AYDON
During her time at Kingston School of Art, Founder Rebecca had always been focused on how she can bring beautiful embellishments and bold colours into pre-existing fabrics. A strong love for vintage clothing has informed the bold aesthetic and silhouette.
Fabrics are dyed, embroidered, and manipulated by hand - working in unpredictable ways leads to bespoke outcomes which cannot be recreated. This uniqueness leads to an emotional connection for the designer, and for the viewer and lastly the owner.
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REBECCA HOLMES
Combining inspiration from the Stockholm Royal Palace with design influence of the 1920s and 1930’s Rebecca re-created the abundance of a time past, in a knitwear collection titled ‘The Age of Parade’.The overly ornate and magnificent state rooms of the palace oozed luxe and excess; colour coordinated interiors in regal colours and hanging with tapestries are edged in an overabundance of gold. Drawing influence from silhouettes from the art deco era she challenged herself in re-creating these ideas in knitwear, imitating fabrication within knit and pattern cutting to work as fully fashioned knitted garments.
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RHIANNON LEWIS
Rhiannon Lewis’s graduate collection is based on the idea of feminism and taking a new approach in what is seen as the feminine ideal. Her influences include elements from urban/streetwear and enhancing the female form with silhouette and design features. Her aesthetic was the idea of glamourising sportswear, through fabric choices of urban navy denim and contrasting with pink duchess satin and silk-like materials, alongside gold detailing.
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