Kingston College Fashion Show

Press Release

Prize-winning Fashion Student Applauded for Textile Initiative

 

3 July 2006 – This year’s Kingston College Fashion Show (21 June) was a dazzling, eclectic extravaganza: a triumphant finale showcasing the outstanding creative talents of this year’s Fashion students graduating from the Design Studies Faculty, all of whom now go on to Higher Education studies.

 

Top student, winning the George Low Fashion Prize, was 18 year-old Senay Berhane, who presented an elegant, flowing evening collection. As well as his creative excellence and design application, Senay was applauded for upping the style stakes by designing his own textile prints and having fabric produced for his show collection.

 

The inspiration for his textile design came from Naum Gabo’s sculpture ‘Head No2’, 1916, which Senay saw when undertaking visual research at the Tate Modern. Finding the shapes of the sculpture exciting he captured on his digital camera. Printing it off, he then traced the image to create a flat geometric design, which he scanned and enlarged to A5 size. Searching for colour inspiration at the Victoria & Albert Museum he found the furnishing fabric ‘Extension’ designed by Haydon Williams for Heals & Sons in 1967. This was the main influence for Senay’s final colour palette.

 

Senay applied the colour to his geometric design using Adobe Photoshop and created the repeat pattern. He then enlarged it to A3, saving it on his USB to give to the technician at the University of East London who printed the repeating design onto Senay’s crepe de chine fabric using a digital printer.

 

The fashion show was staged in the campus’s Arthur Cotterell Theatre by Fashion students in partnership with Beauty, Music and Photographic students. The audience of more than 350 was dazzled by a colourful parade of garments from tailoring to evening wear to urban casual wear, which celebrated the diverse range of interests and backgrounds of the students, many of whom modelled their own collections.

 

            Maia Diver, National Diploma in Fashion and Clothing course leader, is delighted with the quality and professional standard of the work shown this year. “It reflects a wealth of exciting talent and diligent application of the garment construction skills these students have learnt during the past two years,” she commented. Indeed all second year fashion students whose work was shown have been offered places in Higher Education. Maia added: “Many of our students have been awarded places on the BA Honours Fashion Design Technology course at the London College of Fashion to specialise in menswear, hence the focus on menswear at this year’s show.”

 

            Senay Berhane has opted to read BA Hons Fashion at the University of Creative Arts in Epsom. He has also just learnt that he is through to the regional finals in the next round of Can U Cut It?, a national competition for fashion students organised by Skillfast-UK. Also highly commended this year is So Young Cho who will now study womenswear at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.

 

            This year’s fashion show was a highly successful collaboration across the Design Studies Faculty at Kingston College. BA Hons Music Technology students composed the pre-show music; NVQ Level 2 Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy students styled the models’ hair and make-up; lighting and sound stage management was undertaken by National Diploma of Technical Theatre students and photography was by HNC Photography student, Simon Batt.

 

            More about Kingston College at www.kingston-college.ac.uk

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Notes to Editors:

Kingston College is part of the CoVE (Centre of Vocational Excellence) Compact Scheme with the London College of Fashion.

 

Kingston College provides students with a friendly and stimulating environment in which to gain qualifications. Some 3,500 full-time and 3,500 part-time students currently benefit from its professional approach to learning. Each year over 500 Kingston College students leave to become undergraduates at British Universities.

 

For more information and pictures please contact:

Katie Randerson, tel 020 8873 1871, email katie@ktconsulting.biz or

Rosemary Vaux, tel 020 8943 5343, email rvaux@ravenstonepr.co.uk

 

 

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Press Release

 

Kingston Fashion Students Wow Catwalk Audience

 

27 June 2006 – This year’s Kingston College Fashion Show (21 June) was a dazzling, eclectic extravaganza: a triumphant finale showcasing the outstanding creative talents of this year’s graduating Fashion students. The event was staged in the campus’s Arthur Cotterell Theatre by Fashion students in partnership with Beauty, Music and Photographic students.

 

            The audience of more than 350 was dazzled by a colourful parade of garments from tailoring to evening wear to urban casual wear, which celebrated the diverse range of interests and backgrounds of the students, many of whom modelled their own collections.

 

            Top student, winning the George Low Fashion Prize, was 18 year-old Senay Berhane, who presented an elegant, flowing evening collection. As well as his creative excellence and design application, Senay was applauded for upping the style stakes by designing his own textile prints in Adobe Photoshop and having fabric produced at the University of East London for his show collection.

 

            Maia Diver, National Diploma in Fashion and Clothing course leader, is delighted with the quality and professional standard of the work shown this year. “It reflects a wealth of exciting talent and diligent application of the garment construction skills these students have learnt during the past two years,” she commented. Indeed all second year fashion students whose work was shown have been offered places in Higher Education. Maia added: “Many of our students have been awarded places on the BA Honours Fashion Design Technology course at the London College of Fashion to specialise in menswear, hence the focus on menswear at this year’s show.”

 

           

 

 

Senay Berhane has opted to read BA Hons Fashion at the University of Creative Arts in Epsom. He has also just learnt that he is through to the regional finals in the next round of Can U Cut It?, a national competition for fashion students organised by Skillfast-UK. Also highly commended this year is So Young Cho who will now study womenswear at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.

 

            This year’s fashion show was a highly successful collaboration across the Design Studies Faculty at Kingston College. BA Hons Music Technology students composed the pre-show music; NVQ Level 2 Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy students styled the models’ hair and make-up; lighting and sound stage management was undertaken by National Diploma of Technical Theatre students and photography was by HNC Photography student, Simon Batt.

 

ENDS

 

Notes to Editors:

 

Kingston College is part of the CoVE (Centre of Vocational Excellence) Compact Scheme with the London College of Fashion.

 

Kingston College provides students with a friendly and stimulating environment in which to gain qualifications. Some 3,500 full-time and 3,500 part-time students currently benefit from its professional approach to learning. Each year over 500 Kingston College students leave to become undergraduates at British Universities.

 

For more information and pictures please contact:

Katie Randerson, tel 020 8873 1871, email katie@ktconsulting.biz or

Rosemary Vaux, tel 020 8943 5343, email rvaux@ravenstonepr.co.uk