2020 Vision All I want is...

Making and creating in a lockdown. Fashion Design and Fashion Textiles have been exploring alternative representation! A mini exercise in making do

Creative Director of Hades Cassie Holland / Designers Eley Kishimoto and Designer / Senior Lecturer Hazel Robinson discussed creating an identity within your work and defining a direction. The panel reviewed a selection of student work and took questions from the audience. Further information on this event contact the Programme leaders. Open to all for Q&A

FCS is an interdisciplinary visual communication programme for fashion. This Showcase represents an overview of the creative skills, talents and professionalism of our 2020 Grads

Fashion Design at Middlesex recognises creativity and encourages students to establish their own personal design identity through exploration of 2D and 3D design practice

Fashion Textiles student Miles George Daniel’s book of grafitti

Fashion Textiles pushes students to explore materiality, sustainability and digital technology to interrogate and break boundaries in redefining what it means to be a designer

Fashion Textiles student Ellie Grogan finding new ways to show her designs, making mini versions of her garments and turning them into stop-motion films

Workshops on further education, Masters programmes and extending the learning experience. Students met with current and past MA students.

Fashion Communication and Styling student – Indigo Taylor

Fashion Communication and Styling Graduates met up with alumni from previous years as they shared their experience on life post-graduation.

Fashion Design and Fashion Textiles students met up with alumni from previous years as they shared their experience on life post-graduation.

Fashion Design student Arune Jureviciute experimenting with 3D design to communicate her designs

After Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of the Species was published in 1859, there emerged an exciting new trend among fashionable society to discover the natural world

Fashion Design Student Mariana Silva Serra’s Lockdown Lookbook

A panel of students and staff discussed topics explored through a range of graduate dissertation research.

Fashion Design Graduate Gelareh Mofazali selected to Illustrate for ShowStudio

Journalist / Fashion Revolutionary Tamsin Blanchard, Senior Lecturer / SPINNA Director Emma Dick and Designer / Lecturer Katie Jones discussed Eco-systems, design consciousness and ethics. The panel also reviewed a selection of student work.

Fashion Textiles student Miles George Daniel proving you can make shoes out of anything

‘Nothing signals the arrival of a new generation so surely as the fact that the previous one is shocked by its influences’ (100 Fashion Designers, 10 curators, 2013, p.4)

Students, staff and guests reviewed, discussed and presented projects exploring research as creative practice and output.

Creative Consultant at The Face Andrew Davis, Editor of Buffalo Zine David Uzquiza and Creative director and Photo Editor of Riposte Magazine Gem Fletcher talked about the future of publications and reviewed a selection of work.

Work as activism - students presented live projects and active research that explores and promotes activism, engagement and empowerment.

Fashion Textiles student Stevie-Rae Kilby exploring the idea of extreme stillness and quietness in lockdown and how vastly it contrasts to the rave scene

Head of Atelier at Martine Rose Kiran Gobin, Saville Row tailor Sarah Magras and freelance weave designer Alice Timmis discussed the craft of making under the pressure of selling and reviewed a selection of students work. Open to all for Q&A