Chi Wei

 

Chi Wei's pixilating beaded wonders from her graduate collection for  London Central Saint Martins.

Kirsten Harper

 

Exploring the decay, preservation and curation of objects, I found inspiration in the aging of old buildings like Rosslyn Chapel and Glasgow Cathedral, the methods of protecting and displaying artefacts in GSA’s Archives and through my own collection of oddities. My practice is motivated by texture, experimenting in transforming a textile’s qualities with the introduction of substances like wax or the removal of threads, as well as incorporating found materials such as vintage fur and animal bones. Each piece in the collection uses exclusively hand-stitch methods, and almost all my materials (including yarn and thread) were sourced second-hand – giving them a new purpose and allowing for tactile closeness to the past and present. Kirsten Harper

Fin Maguire

 

Finlay Maguire's BA Hon's collection at Central St Martins, bold and amazing!

Katherine Murphy

The overall theme of my personal project is Nostalgia, stemming from a collection of childhood photos gathered as primary visual research. These photos have been carefully selected through colour palette, composition and the people within them. 

The final pieces are a collection of one-off embroidered ‘keepsakes’ due to the personal nature of the research. Each piece captures memories and provokes nostalgia to the viewer through stitched visual storytelling. I hope that this would lead to commission-based work for those wishing to capture a moment of life through a one-off textile piece. With this in mind, this specific project is a commission to myself and my family. Katherine Murphy

 

 

Rianne Gilchrist

“My project, The Context of Joy, is an imagination of Scottish micro seasons, periods of time shorter than traditional seasons. Influenced by my upbringing in the Scottish Highlands these pockets of time all centre around our natural world. The budding of chanterelles, the midsummer light trough green trees, crisp white show in the sunshine. These contrasting events each united in the joy they can bring.

The natural world is in continuous motion, influencing my collection, with a focus on bringing joy to the wearer through playful, voluminous silhouettes. My work is designed to flow and move with the wearer as they interact with the world around them encouraging a state of play.” Rianne Gilchrist

Abbie Smith

 

'Sword Dance' is born from my old dancehall back home on the West coast, its scent of varnished floors and mustiness lingers still, a keepsake of a buried part of self. Here, as a ballet and Highland dancer, the swords were danced, a depiction of a Highland battle triumph. Music is at the root of world creation. Heritage is revisited through the sound of post-punk – heavy, powerful, driving.

These seemingly opposing worlds finds threads of familiarity, underpinned by a sense of movement. Highland militaristic structures reflect the precision and discipline of dance, softened through fabric, colour and texture, drawing on the classicism of ballet. Music performance informs undone elements, a manipulation of tradition. Abbie Smith

Sifana Shahzad

This past summer I have often questioned whether I am awake”

Journal entry, July 2026

Sifana Shahzad's collection 'Sleepwalking'.

‘Inside’ clothes; mismatched pyjama bottoms and oversized T-shirts – the clothes I have spent much of my life in are rarely discussed and are considered to exist outside of the fashion space, perhaps even embarrassing to be seen in. There is then the opposite of that – suiting, tailoring, “serious clothes”. The sort of clothes I imagine real adults wear as they take on the world with a crisp confidence mirrored by their lapels and pinstripes.

A vision of stumbling out of bed, half awake, half asleep, getting dressed in the dark in what turns out to an eclectic, hazy mix of those two polar opposite worlds of pyjamas and tailoring, I see someone stuck in between. Wanting everything to stay forever the same, like the terribly worn pyjamas you come home to, and aspiring to be cleaner, sharper, more proper, like those suits that can seem so distance.

This collection combines a softness in materiality and shape with details that are sharper to convey a lucidity outlined in the concept. It has been designed as responsibly as possible with natural  materials making up the basis of the collection, supplemented by dead-stock and up-cycled material. Using wools, cottons and jersey with a repeating motif of stripes – as seen in both pinstriped suiting and bedding- add a sense of structure and line the materials themselves balance out. Essentially a capsule wardrobe, with many pieces that are changeable to the wearer’s preference, the collection is designed to be worn in many configurations.

Employing a sense of both irony and sincerity, I aim to bridge the gap between these poles within fashion and to capture the essence of the confusion that many of us face as we stagger through the world, unsure, but trying our best to seem put together.