Meet the 3D artist using afro-futuristic characters to challenge the white-dominated NFT space
From falling into the creative industry by accident, digital artist and musician, Serwah Attafuah is using art to create dream-like alternative universes.
Meet Tai Verdes, the basketballer-turned-viral singer reminding us to do what we love
With a viral song that took over TikTok last summer, Tai Verdes is using his new album to take us through his life story, and to remind us that everything is going to be A-O-K.
Class of 2021: Here’s why this LCF grad doesn’t believe fashion can be ‘studied’
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.
Zixuan Guo is the designer making fashion faux pas fashionable
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.
Meet Leiti Sene, the rapper breaking taboos and pushing Barcelona’s talent forward
In a constant search for new sounds, Leïti Sène is the Barcelona-based actor (check him out in hit-show ‘Elite’) and rapper who today presents his unique and highly sexual mixtape, ‘JÖM’.
Who are the changemakers? The BFC drops its list while Lil Nas X, Bennifer and more fill our timelines
While the British Fashion Council announced the finalists for their Changemakers Award, our timelines were filled with Bennifer confirmations, Courtney Love doting on Gen Z, SATC reboots and Lil Nas X bringing the “gay agenda” (sort of).
Class of 2021: How digital distortion inspired this FIT grad’s 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.
Class of 2021: Meet the CSM grad using knitwear to show us his post-apocalyptic world
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.
Why Eugene Shishkin dropped out of a career in mathematics to be a photographer
Eugene Shishkin is the Kazakhstan-born photographer who dropped out of a mathematics degree to pursue his passions. Now 29, a London College of Fashion grad, and photographer for publications all over the world, Shishkin reflects on his career and the process to capturing a moment through image.
Class of 2021: Dimitris Karagiannakis explores Greek mythology to celebrate femininity and transness
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.
Class of 2021: Saule Gradeckaite on Lithuanian cop shows, creative subjectivity and her graduate collection
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’).
Class of 2021: Daniel Vass created a collection of clownery because ‘I figured I’d do something stupid’
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?
Sylvie Kreusch's new single is the ultimate ‘f*CK my ex' anthem
Sylvie Kreusch is the Belgian singer-songwriter whose latest single, ‘Let It All Burn’, is a soundtrack for anyone who’s found themselves in the shower, going over past arguments with their ex, and delivering the coup de grâce that they wish they had delivered.
Henjila is the musician fixing broken boys and forging emotional armour from femininity
Henjila is the young musician creating bedroom pop that bursts with sharp emotional maturity. Her ethereal voice and petite frame could probably pass as a fairy, if not the daughter of a Nepalese militarian, growing up near Sandhurst’s army barracks. As she releases her debut EP, ‘Moonshot’, we sit down with the singer to talk all things friendship, music and men’s mental health.
Mad about the Boy: My journey to becoming Timothee Chalamet’s number one Chalamander
With Timothée Chalamet’s red carpet appearance in Cannes turning the Twitterverse into a frenzy, Phoebe Shardlow discusses her journey from curious spectator to avid stan - or in her words, Chalamander. Just why are we all so damn obsessed?
Fashion designer Kuan-Chien Chiang wants to talk about arseholes
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.
Class of 2021: Arianne Scott on her collection of female flora and why she describes CSM as ‘weird, fun, ruthless’
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.
Class of 2021: Jack Fieldhouse is the Middlesex grad capturing his version of the Class of ‘86
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.
Class of 2021: CSM grad Celine Kwan on creating her living room utopia
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.”
Class of 2021: How Kadeem Lamorell used knitwear to better understand his relationship to gender
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.