Tyrella Baker-Smith I

Costume design for a TV Series Adaptation of Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl by Tyrella Baker-Smith for her graduate collection at ECA. 

'He shouted, “Bacon, pork and ham!

Oh, what a lucky Wolf I am!''

And though he ate the pig quite fast,

He carefully kept the tail till last...' 

Eilidh Currie

Tatters and tares, frills and layers Eilidh Curries textile designs for her BA Textiles Graduate Collection at ECA are an excitement of texture and colour.

Ruth Hope

This is Ruth Hope's wonderful interpretation of Roald Dahl's 'Esio Trot',  Mrssilvers immaculate hand embellished gold velvet suit with applique, hand embroidery, and beadwork was stunning. Contrasting to perfection with Mr Hoppy's shambolic well loved patchwork dressing gown.  You can catch the show and see all of this amazing work close up at Edinburgh College of Art, Degree Show this week.

Holly Macleod

Holly Macleod's bold, layered, screen printed collection from ECA fashion show at The National Museum of Scotland. 

"My collection is inspired by the feelings of misplacement that fly tipping evokes -something I myself have always found oddly charming- as it is something familiar, in an unfamiliar place. Silhouettes were created by playing with the obscured perspective that collaged images create. Specifically inspired by the collages of the Dada art movement, whose values of the nonsensical and fun were key to my collection.
Prints are made up of hybrid animals -the ultimate collage/ idea of misplacement- which was interpreted through the creation of zebra and leopard prints from the elongation of hybrid animal limbs within the print." Holly Macleod

Lucy Hutchcraft II

This year I modelled at ECA for Lucy Hutchcrafts' Performance costume graduate collection alongside Josh Going as characters from 'Cluedo'.

I was Mrs. Peacock, feathery elegance from the stunning hat down to the toes of the shoes, to match the dapper green, velvet suited Josh Going as Mr Green. 

"These costumes were created for an immersive theatre experience based on the much loved game 'Cluedo' from the 1950's. Staged in a warehouse space with a se designed similar to the board, audiences would be amongst the comedic 'whodunit' action. Was is Mrs Peacock, in the study, with the candlestick? Or Mr Green, in the library, with the revolver?" Lucy Hutchcraft

Mr Greens' costume had incredible details hidden everywhere, clues to be discovered. The lining of the jacket has the Cluedo floor plan printed on it. His tie had details from the floor plan and the cufflinks were made with the tiny weapon place markers from the game, whilst the handkerchief placed the blame on Mrs. Peacock with 'Candlestick' printed clearly for everyone to see. Unfortunately his briefcase reveals his guilt bursting open spilling forth money and the murder weapon for everyone to see. If you missed the performances you can see all off these creations at the ECA degree show from June 2-10 2018 and the work of Josh Going (Mr Green) in the Landscape Architecture display.

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  

Zoe Frewin

Continuing with a glam rock theme is the work of Zoe Frewin, 'Man Enough to be a Woman', for her Performance Costume graduate collection for Edinburgh College of Art.

"In an adaptation of Jayne County’s autobiography ,I present a musical showcasing the life of the first transexual rock icon, an artist who inspired many. We embark on the rock and roll transexual journey of Wayne becoming Jayne and the search for her true identity. The musical takes off in New York at the start of her career, in the late 1960s, and follows her troubled road to stardom." Zoe Frewin

Gracie Martin

Gracie Martin's costumes for Judith Kerr's classic story, 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' were inspired by 1920's Art Deco patterns the tigers acceptability/ respectability, that enabled him to enter the home is interestingly conveyed by the use of the tie, the stripes on the chest are created using multiple ties and the pointed tie shape is then carried through into the design and repeated in the layered shoulders and mask.