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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 16:13
Miss England: Best Student Design Award Students
Students from London College of Fashion
Name: Sharon Lau
Age: 20
University/College: London College Of fashion
Course Detail: Final year in BA Hons Fashion Design & Technology
Background: Currently working as a part time design assistance for Wedding dress & Evening dress designer - Angela Stone. Won the ‘Most promising designer' award at ‘Design for Wales' 2005.
Other dress by Sharon Lau
Name: Joe McCombe
Age: 20
University/College: London College of Fashion
Course Detail: BA Fashion Design Technology Womenswear 3rd year
Background: As a recent Womenswear graduate from the London College of Fashion, my aspirations for the future are to start working for an already well established fashion house that has a history of creating beautiful evening wear, as this is the area of womenswear I feel most at home and comfortable with. By starting out working for an established fashion house, I hope that I will be able to learn the inner workings of the fashion industry, and really find my feet. Hopefully this grounding will enable me to move up through other fashion houses, and evolve as I go. I'd be absolutely thrilled to work for a designers/houses such as Lanvin, Givenchy, Elie Saab, Balmain, Nina Ricci and (my current favourite designer) Zuhair Murad - but I would like to think that after I have gained all the knowledge and skills of a working fashion designer I'd undoubtedly launch my own label - starting small at first, but eventually branching out into handbags, shoes, and a diffusion line. My ultimate goal would be to have my label certified by the chambre syndicale de la haute couture and be able to show during couture fashion week.
Name: Iris Cheung
Age: 22
University/College: London college of Fashion
Course Detail: BA Fashion design (3rd Year)
Background: To gain more experience in the industry within the fashion world, to work closely with a range of professional in different areas of this field. Expanding my knowledge in areas such as design, styling, buying and press; perhaps working closely with the media when possible. Eventually with all the skills and knowledge gained; I would have a clearer idea of the direction that's best suitable to me.
Students from Liverpool John Moore University
Name: Amy Liddle
Age: 23
University/College: Liverpool John Moores University
Course Detail: BA Hons Fashion Design
Background: Her ambition is to become a successful Fashion designer in her own right, she would love to have her own label and own boutique. She would also like to do her masters and focus her career into couture fashion.
Name: Kelly O'Shaughnessey
Age: 30
University/College: Liverpool John Moores University
Course Detail: BA Hons Fashion Design
Background: I will be graduating this year. My dresses I have submitted for the competition has a Victorian Gothic feel with an edgy girly charm.
Name: Samantha Blackhall
Age: 21
University/College: Liverpool john Moores Univeristy
Course Detail: BA Hons Fashion
Background: She started doing textiles in School and from there she went on to do Fashion and Textiles in College. Following that she got into Liverpool's John Moores University where she has just completed her final year. She has only just recently had her final year collection shown on London Graduate Fashion Week Catwalk 2009. Ambitions are to become designer and creator of her own Fashion label and to succeed within the industry.
Other dresses created by Samantha
Student from University of Huddersfield
Name: Heidi May
Age: 22
University/College: University of Huddersfield
Course Detail: BA Hons Fashion with manufacture, marketing and promotion.
Background: I am a bubbly and ambitious 22 year old student and design entrepreneur raised in the tranquil Norfolk countryside and studying at the University of Huddersfield, where I've spent the last four years learning the trials and tribulations of the fashion industry. Three years into my Fashion Design with Manufacture, Marketing and Promotion degree, and after reaching the top ten shortlist for the Student Design Award at the Design Show Liverpool 2008, I took a year out from education to concentrate on building up my entrepreneurial and design experience. This has benefited me greatly and helped me prepare for my final year of studying and my future ambitions. My design label, ‘Aesthetic Laundry', has been picked up by several Yorkshire boutiques, with demand ever increasing. My ambition? To complete my degree and to become a successful and internationally recognised fashion designer.'
Other dress made by Heidi
Student from Bournemouth University
Name: Eleanor Herron
Age: 21
University/College: The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Course Detail: 3rd Year BA Hons Fashion Studies
Background: ‘After uni I am open to options, I am keen to work with people and maybe in a design team. I have so far kept my designing to womenswear but I like to design casual daywear as well as more ‘smart' evening wear. But within that I also like to be a bit experimental and try out new things - regardless of the outcome! I am keen on the eco and organics aspect of fashion and textile, on a personal preference and because I think it's important in the current day and fashion industry.'