09.06.2006
Sixty-one fashion and textiles students showcased their striking collections to a sell out audience at this year's Brighton graduate fashion show.
Lynsey Dorman produced a collection of women's skirts, tops and capes and accessories based on guitars.
Lucy Wood, a graduate in printed textile fashion, is due to take up a five-year internship with American Eagle Outfitters in New York at the end of July and based her silk menswear designs on neon signs.
Lynsey Dorman |
Lucy Wood |
Sakib Khan |
Knit wear student, Dulcie Wanless aims to create a new vision of après sports wear with her collection and fellow knit wear specialist Sini Moilanen wants to work in a design studio or in trend prediction on graduation.
Woven textile student Rebecca Hulbert has created a collection of haute couture evening wear for women, based on x-rays of shells which reveal their inner structure.
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Dulcie Wanless |
Rebecca Hulbert |
Sini Moilanen |
Emily Carne who studied Fashion Design with Business Studies has entitled her collection 'Milkmaids'. She said: "I was inspired by Milkmaids in days gone by and the clothes they wore in the 1950s and 60s."
A trip to Iceland inspired Jeni Bolton's fun collection of children's knitwear and she hopes to find work designing and selling children's knitwear.
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Emily Carne |
Jeni Bolton |
Michael Smith |
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