GFW 2010

Launched in 1991 as a forum to showcase the very best BA Graduate fashion design talent in the UK, each year FashionCapital take a stand to ensure students and graduates receive the very best support and advice when entering the real world of fashion today.

This year Graduate Fashion Week is thrilled to announce that for the first time ever it will be hosting a catwalk show of collections from international universities, as part of its showcase of this year’s best up and coming graduates.  The show will take place on Monday 7th June at Earls Court 2 and is a very exciting new development for the event.  It will feature the work of students from Amsterdam Fashion Institute, AMD Munich (Akademie Mode and Design), Academy of Art and Design Institute Switzerland, LASALLE Singapore and Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design. 

In addition, the River Island Gold Award pre-selection judges will attend the show and be looking for three students to shortlist for the newly created International Award.  The chosen three will have their collections featured in both Gala Shows and one student will be presented with the first International Award at Gala Show 2 on 9 June (also at Earls Court 2).

 

“This is a very exciting new development for Graduate Fashion Week.  In recent years more and more of GFW’s member universities have set up faculties overseas (e.g. UCLAN in India and Northumbria in Hong Kong).  The exporting of British fashion education has become an important tool for our universities to raise funds and their profile on an international scale.  We hope that by introducing international universities to GFW, we will help raise the profile of their courses in the UK, and providing UK graduates an opportunity to consider doing an MA overseas.”
June Barker, Director Graduate Fashion Week

This year FashionCapital will be awarding 5 graduates with a free annual membership to FashionCapital worth over £200 each. This will enable them to conduct one to one mentoring sessions, stock their collection in our boutiques, create a free online boutique, be represented at The Showroom, use The Workshop services at a discounted rate and access member’s only areas of the website. If you will be attending Graduate Fashion Week make sure you visit stand F106 to enter your details for a free membership with FashionCapital!