Croydon & Kingston College Students Show

 

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For Enterprise Week a Pamper Pod was erected in Centrale’s Shopping Mall to showcase the talents of 2nd year fashion students from both Kingston and Croydon Colleges. Staffed by Fashion-Enter under the initiative “Getting It Right First Time”, the students had a chance to promote themselves and their designs in the busy Centrale Shopping Centre. Opportunities were created to allow students to sell their exclusive t-shirts or obtain one-off commissions.

 

 

It is with grateful thanks here to Liz Ogilvie, Director of Business Enterprise at Kingston College, who paid for the stand, and Gayle Atkins, Fashion Course Leader at Croydon, for being so innovative!

The Croydon Advertiser attended the event – so again many thanks to the Business Editor David Callam for his tremendous support. There will be more to come from this initiative in the near future thanks to Justine Wright and Chris Lee of EQUAL, Croydon Enterprise through Croydon Business and Prefix. Keep checking back for the latest updates.

 

 

 

 

 

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The students have been rather impressed too – here is a selection of some of the comments made by the students at Croydon College…

Mambo Lambu – “A fun, exciting project for young designers. A good leg up in life.”

Papia Begum – “It was a really good experience.”

 

 

 

 

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Amrit K.Lall – “I thought it was a new thing to do as a group and help each other to move forward on making our own label (Amethyst). If I had the chance I would do it again.”

Shahenah Choudhory – “I thought this project was a good opportunity. I really liked working with my group (Amethyst) and would do it again with more time and trendy collections. A really good experience.”

 

 

 

 

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Funni Fasbemi – “I have to say it was very enlightening and fantastic.”

Connie Shalita Uwineza – “I want to become a designer so this was a great opportunity to design, make and sell my t-shirts so overall I found the project very encouraging and exciting.”

Georgina Lawrence – “This has really opened my eyes to a whole new world and made me want to pursue this more. Thanks.”

Hannah Douglas – “I thought it was a fun project, but I thought we could’ve done with a little bit more time.”

Karen Scanlan – “It was really good to have the opportunity to have our garments in the store; Fashion Enter. It brings the experience to reality.”

 

 

Tohminah Choudhory – “I thought it was a fantastic project to work on, to actually see how it works in the fashion industry with everyone putting something in. It was a great opportunity to have our collection in this store.”

 

 

Elsa Regis – “Well…What an experience! It was a lot of hard work but all worth it in the end.”