For London College of Fashion student, Luke Neil, punk is a feeling. And challenging the alienation experienced among so many LGBTQ+ creatives, his latest collection, Punk Puff, has been designed to make you “feel like a grunge god.”

For Cici Zhang, fashion is a form of the most personal self-expression. And for her graduate collection, she visualised a spiritual world in which Mother Nature lent a hand to form the flowering, organic shapes that came to symbolise her inner self.

To LCF grad, Saule Gradeckaite, fashion is her way of expressing creative subjectivity towards an objective environment. Inspired by a Lithuanian cop show, her graduate collection challenged the critical gaze towards East European Hooligans (aka ‘gopniks’).

For his graduate collection, London College of Fashion student Daniel Vass went into full-blown clownery mode, and in the age of Boris and Trump, doesn’t it just seem fitting?

“The world [will] be so polluted at some point that we’ll find plastic even in our fruits,” admits London College of Fashion womenswear student, Alesia.

Multi-faceted creative, The Lizard Queen, functions with a natural adaptability like a chameleon. When she’s not shooting through a wide-angle lens or editing fire looks in heatmap colours, Nancy McNulty sits on her scaled scaled throne in Cold Blooded Kingdom (CBK); her self-launched fashion brand of avant-garde clothing for everyday wear.

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. So the next time you want to throw out your shower mat or sieve, think of the turtles. But also, think of Clara Chu.