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.

Turning embarrassing moments into the next fashion thing, Central Saint Martins designer Zixuan Guo’s ethos of always seeing the silver linings in life makes for an unforgettable – and rather funny - final collection.

The idea of digital distortion has never been more prevalent than in 2020, a year plagued by misinformation and fake news. For FIT student Yitao Li, she channelled that distortion into her graduate collection of misshapen, multi-coloured garments.

Drawing inspiration from the elements and his favourite childhood animation, Oscar Ouyang’s gutsy final collection, Wind, Current, Flow, uses knitwear to inform his futuristic world.

Graduating from the Royal College of Art, Dimitris Karagiannakis is using fashion to explore “notions of womanhood and femininity, transness, and the body,” drawing inspiration from Greek mythology and spiders to create a metamorphic design.

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?

Kuan-Chien Chiang is the Taiwanese fashion designer coming out of the closet with a new bootylicious collection that celebrates gay sex in all its glory.

Graduating with a collection of female flora, Arianne Scott is the Central Saint Martins final year student using the nostalgia for another’s past to influence her garment design.

Inspired by familial ties and self-identity over lockdown, Jack Fieldhouse’s final photography project, Class of ’86, explores his parents’ university experience through the medium of self-portraiture.

Celine Kwan is the Central Saint Martins graduate combining furniture and fashion to create her own living room utopia with “garments that look beautiful while being worn and can also be admired [when] taken off.”

Inspired by the masculine figures in his life, Kadeem Lamorell is the Parsons graduate using knitwear to understand “why masculinity is such a deeply held and important concept” in the African-American and Caribbean communities he grew up in.

Diverging from a science degree, Justine Janot switched to fashion to be able to “create characters and environments from a more 3D point of view.” Her graduate collection is the antithesis of that, combining traditional making practices with digital design in a collection of hybrid feminine silhouettes set against the backdrop of a hostile, dystopia.

Meet Central Saint Martin’s best and brightest fashion designers, communicators and journalists from this year’s graduating class, a group of students caught in and persevering through a pandemic and global landscape that no one could have ever predicted.

These days masculinity gets a bad rep, but Jimmy Howe wants to change that. The CSM MA Menswear student is using his designs to subvert the toxicity of manhood and dissect what male means in 2021, all with the aim of creating “healthy menswear”.

First-year Central Saint Martins student, Mia Coco Chambers, was inspired to create a universe of influential women that go back and forward in time to save other women in need. “Women who had power or an opinion, and were seen as mad or a threat to society. We have to stick together in order to help our own kind.”

From days at the Royal College of Art to nights in clubs and features on drag race, Adam Frost is a queer working-class artist and quite frankly, a one-man party apparatus.

Stylist Simone Beyene first met her long-time friend and collaborator, zesty ‘West-Ten’ singer Mabel, back at school in Stockholm. But they didn’t always have the MTV-obsessed friendship that’s become the reoccurring theme tune to their ‘90s/’00 inspired work.

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