Ibukun Jesusanmi II

Ibukun Jesusanmi

Ibukun Jesusanmi I

Ibukun Jesusanmi has just graduated in textiles from Manchester School of Art. Her work is full of
character and fun and has a great energy of dynamic mark making and texture, incorporating beading, fur applique and hand embroidery. Thank you

Kate Connell

Kate Connell's textiles were bold prints on modern fabrics. I loved her shoe concepts and vibrant energetic fashion illustrations. Kate has graduated with a BA Hons from Glasgow School of Art.

Natascia Forte

Natascia Forte has just graduated with a BA in Textiles from Glasgow School of Art with effervescent tufts of knit contrasting with flatter weaves in exciting contrasts of texture, visual dynamics, and colour.

Sgàire Wood

Exploring the identity of 'Ceticity' and it's identity in dress, Sgaire Wood's collection 'Sidhe' is a response to the confused and fragmented identity of the Celt in post colonial society, examining the commodification of authenticity and fetishisation of the traditional rural life of Celts in Ireland and Scotland. 

Liga Boyd I

Many moons ago Liga Boyd was one of my fashion students and so I am very proud this year to see her graduating in womanswear from Edinburgh College of Art.

"The focus of my collection was modern societies obsession about body and image proliferated through social media. I took a surrealist approach to my designs by distorting the silhouette and creating my own fabrics such as macrame and knit in a new way. the metalic sparkle through the fabrics is to represent mirrors and camera flashes." Liga Boyd  

Irene D'Antonio

Irene D'Antonio has just graduated from Edinburgh College of Art witha  BA Hons in Fashion and at Graduate Fashion Week in London she won the Marks and Spencer's Womenswear Award. Irene's work combined beautiful Italian tailoring, with avant-garde Japanese tailoring and more traditional Japanese forms like the Kimono. Irene's palette was a spring summer burst of marigold yellow and cherry blossom pink with textile designs of printed maple and ginkgo leaves.