Graduate Fashion Week is fast approaching, and now I'm at uni, the fashion design course where I'm studying is involved. For those that aren't aware of GFW, it's one of the leading events for fashion graduates, where they get a chance to showcase their work to the industry, and potentially get jobs from it. So it's pretty major; especially as fashion design jobs are so sparse nowadays. It's also an opportunity for students to represent the future in fashion, something innovative to really impress industry experts.
Over 1,000 graduates are involved each year from the most influential universities up and down the UK including Nottingham Trent and UCA so it's mega cool that my uni can be part of it. The event this year is from Sunday June 2nd - Wednesday June 5th at Earls Court and you can by tickets via the website http://www.gfw.org.uk/tickets/catwalk/. If the catwalk isn't your thang, you can choose to buy tickets to the exhibition instead via the same link above.
According to Vogue, the show is under reconstruction this year, as it aims to streamline the performances by focusing on fewer universities each day and also having fewer awards on each day to allow for a bigger Gala day at the end of the week. Rob Templeman, the weeks chairman has said that he hopes 'the new Gala day will allow for a more intimate affair, and showcase how great the students work is.'
Colin McDowell has now become a trustee for the event. The respected fashion journalist joins the charity's executive committee alongside fellow writer Hilary Alexander, British designer Mark Eley and Professor Wendy Dagworthy of the Royal College of Art.
"I am very pleased to have become a trustee of Graduate Fashion Week as I am convinced that its nationwide brief to help and encourage students and academic staff across the whole country is a necessary antidote to the erroneous idea that because British fashion is shown mainly in London it is only the products of London fashion colleges that matter," he said.
Anna Stephenson GFW 2011
I hope you're all as excited as I am for this. Even though I don't do design, I'm more than happy to support my uni, and hope they win big this year!
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