Here come the girls. All are graduating designers.
Danielle Ingemann - has just graduated from Ravensbourne and was shortlisted in the Zandra Rhodes Catwalk Textiles Award. You can check out some of the images from her collection
here. She says her design inspiration is eclectic and colourful. Her favourite designer is
Marc Jacobs. On GFW - It has been an exciting week for her. On her own style - she likes clothes with history every piece she is wearing has a history for her. Today her polkadot jumpsuit is vintage and was picked up on
Ebay. Her belt is from a vintage shop in London. Her jacket is
River Island and shoes...sorry I can read my writing!
Rose Willis -
thewayyouwearit has just graduated from Arts University College - Bournemouth.
The top she is wearing is one of her own designs. The print is based on butterfly wings. She is interested in colour and the movement of fabric. She loves cut on the bias drapery. On GFW - she is loving it. What next? Job hunting.
Other than her own design top, Rose is wearing a jacket and trousers from
H&M, shoes from
Topshopand her bag is Rit2K.
Tezel Ziya has enjoyed GFW. "It has been really busy, good." She takes her design inspiration from life, people, the world, animals, images, everything.
Originally from Turkey her jacket and top are from there. Her skirt is from
River Island and shoes are from
Office.Eve McDonald - see her collection
here. Also see a review of her work by Susie Bubble
here, her's is the 4th review (Susie's comment on the lighting inside Earls court is spot on - I took 2 pictures inside and had to head outside). Eve has just graduated from Epsom
. Her inspiration for her final Uni collection was retro matchboxes. She told me she usually takes inspiration from 1 item and expands this throughout the collection she is currently working on. Her favourite era's are the 40's, 50's and 60's.
Eve's scarf is her grandma's, her top is from
Topshop, shorts are vintage, belt is a friends and boots are
DM's.
Eimear Bradley - is originally from Omah (Co. Tyrone) and has just graduated from Salford Uni, see her collection
here. The inspiration for her final Uni collection was Ghostbusters. She told me she likes the manipulation of fabric's and gives adventure a feminine twist. For her own look she likes to stand out and likes to be girly or rocky. She is wearing a jacket from
Miss Selfridge, a Rolling Stones T, vintage
Levis cut into shorts.
Next tights,
DM boots and vintage bag.