The awards cover each fashion discipline from design, communications and photography to creative direction, and textiles. Submissions will be judged in July by a panel of industry experts and winners will be announced in September.
Erin Dapper, studying Fashion Communication with Business Studies, has been nominated in the category ‘Fashion Innovation Award’, sponsored by Samsung King’s Cross. Her work explores the cross over between video game design and fashion: “I’m always in disbelief at the high level of coordination and creative talents to create one video game. Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, The Breath of the Wild, and Horizon Zero Dawn are some of my biggest influences and my favourite games.”
Erin’s final project ‘2130’ is a video game concept she produced and creatively directed: “This began with my desire to create compelling female video game characters, Avani, Enzi, and Sahana. They live almost 100 years after the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2130. I took this project as an opportunity to present certain world issues, including feminism, sustainability, lack of funding for the NHS, and the UK education system. Embedding these topics in a video game makes them less confrontational and will, hopefully, open up discussions and inspire change.”