Shillington College

Fashion

Showing 1-10 of 307 articles

  1. Style-driven sisters produce dual designs for final fashion collection

    Katy Cowan /

    Two pairs of huge blue eyes, two crops of cascading curls, two impish grins and a matching passion for design – students at London’s Kingston University would be forgiven for doing a double take in the fashion department as identical twins Faith and Grace Hawthorne make the final adjustments to their co-ordinated womenswear collection. The 23 year olds’ lives have mirrored each other from...

  2. Six Coventry University students shortlisted for top fashion award

    Katy Cowan /

    Six of the 27 finalists in this year’s Midlands Designer of the Year competition are final year fashion students at Coventry University. Created in 2008, the Midlands Fashion Designer Awards offers new and emerging fashion talent the opportunity to compete for the title “Emerging Designer of the Year” and to show their work to a panel of fashion pr...

  3. University of Westminster fashion students first to produce collections for ASOS Marketplace

    Katy Cowan /

    University of Westminster students of the BA (Hons) Fashion Design and BA (Hons) Fashion Buying Management courses have created ten High Summer 2012 collections for ASOS Marketplace, which buys and sells new, pre-owned and vintage fashion online. The project, which is an industry first, offered second year students the opportunity to produce ten new capsule branded collections for High Summer 2...

  4. Interview: Katy Leicester, Handpickedvintage.com

    Katy Cowan /

    Katy Leicester is the person behind Handpickedvintage.com, an affordable vintage clothing website, for men and women and based in the UK. It was dreamt up after Katy worked in all areas of fashion, costumes and textiles and spent a lifetime collecting and obsessing over vintage clothing, fabric and embroidery. She was brought up going to jumble sales, ch...

  5. University of Westminster wins British Fashion Council Fashion Illustration Award

    Katy Cowan /

    The University of Westminster has won the coveted British Fashion Council Fashion Illustration Award in association with Fashion Monitor at the annual Graduate Preview Day held at the Mayfair Hotel, London. The University of Westminster was chosen from 25 other universities and colleges who submitted their graduates’ portfolios to showcase their work to high profile industry professionals. Th...

  6. Young designers’ collections take to the catwalk

    Katy Cowan /

    The next big names in fashion are set to showcase their unique undergraduate collections on the runway and across a set of displays as part of Nottingham Trent University’s eagerly-awaited fashion catwalk shows this month. Over 90 final year undergraduate students from the university’s fashion design and fashion knitwear design courses will exhibit their collections at the shows which take...

  7. Feeling fashion conscious?

    Katy Cowan /

    A new online magazine is set to change the way the style-savvy read about, source and buy the latest fashions by bringing unique designer pieces direct from catwalks to closets whilst at the same time helping designers get discovered. I Like What You’re Wearing (ILWYW.com) is an online fashion portal which not only features news, reviews and style tips written by a com...

  8. DecodedFashion - Where Fashion Meets Tech

    Katy Cowan /

    I was lucky to be a VIP guest at DecodedFashion in New York this week, a new annual conference that brings the fashion and tech industries together for the first time, offering the very best innovators, brands and creative firms from across the globe. Speakers included founder of Tumblr David Karp, Amy Cole of [Instagram](http://www.instagr...

  9. 23-Year-Old Blogger sparks a Fashion Revolution

    Katy Cowan /

    Rising fashion designers looking for their ‘big break’ could soon be heading down the catwalk of success after a 23-year-old fashion blogger and photographer from NYC spotted a gap in the online fashion retail market. Launching 1st May 2012, I Like What You’re Wearing (ILWYW.com) is an online shopping magazine that gives the next generation of designers the chance ...

  10. Review: Alternative Fashion Week 2012

    Katy Cowan /

    We didn't quite know what to expect from Alternative Fashion Week 2012 at Spitalfields Traders Market in London last week but it certainly offered an interesting mix of incredible talent. Walking around the various stalls, set up by a whole range of rising fashion designers, it was fascinating to see the wealth of expertise. The whole event was h...

Latest News