New Names to Watch Out for in London Fashion

(17 Images shot by young architecture graduate ANTHONY TRAN)

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Time and time again London which has always been the melting pot of progressive fashion sense constantly attracts young designers from around the world to study, get their discipline, and develop their own style.

Here are the newly graduated promising designers and their works for AW14-15.

17 Designers:

1-LISA CLAYTON 2-AARON TUBB 3-CLAIRE STOREY 4-DOMINIK CHAPMAN 5-GRACE COOPER

6-HOLLY PENFORD 7-JAMES PAWSON 8-CHLOE BAYLES 9-LOUISE ALSOP 10-LOUISE WHITTENGTON

11-PHILLI WOOD 12-SARAH DOWLING 13-SIAN THOMAS 14-SOPHIA NUTTALL 15-SOPHIE TOLHURT

16-TOM GUY 17-VICTORIA ROWE

Budding New Hopefuls in British Fashion I

( 15 images shot by Anthony Tran )

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This year's new generation of aspiring dsigners and their works from around the UK...

Birmingham:1-Ajmal Khan 2-Amy Miles 3-Charlotte King 4-Juan Monroy 5-Luke Sukkas 6-Olga Kaluba 

De Montfort: 7-Joel Bostock 8-Helen Senior

East London: 9-Charles Chambers

Edinburgh: 10-Andrew Alastair Mclaren 11-Shauni Douglas

Kingston: 12-FMoarios Alexandrou

Manchester: 13-Mark Glasgow 14-Olivia Peszynski

Northampton: 15-Roxy Eusebio


Budding New Hopefuls in British Fashion II

( 17 images shot by Anthony Tran )

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This year's new generation of aspiring dsigners and their works from around the UK...

Nottingham Trent: 1-Adnan Ebo 2-Lewish Heath

Northumbria: 3-Emily Oldroyo 4-Jennifer Lowther 5-Rosalind Borwick 6-Sophie Lea

UCA Epsom: 7-Bradley Snowden 8-Lydia Cooper 9-Maria Michael 10-Sarah Venner

UCA Rochester: 11-Amy Gaunt 12-Fenelia Hawker 13-Hannah Cooper 14-Harrison Thom 15-Joanna Leon

UCLAN: 16-John Cryne 17-Lauren Bond

JANE FRERE: INTO THE VOID @ SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH

(17 images shot by Malcolm Crowthers)

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A corridor in an arts venue might be off-putting for some artists, but Scottish artist Jane Frere relishes site-specific spaces. She is best known for her moving and critically acclaimed installation, Return of the Soul, displayed in four countries in 2008 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakbah, the ethnic cleansing which forced many Palestinians to flee from their homeland when Israel was formed. Her latest exhibition Into the Void at Edinburgh’s talk-of-the-town new cultural venue Summerhall reveals, through highlights of work over the past six years, how a life changing experience in a war zone has affected the artist through drawing, painting, photography and printmaking. A journey in three stages, it moves from images of more than 3,000 suspended wax figures symbolising refugees in flight, via a period where the artist was living literally in the shadow of the wall, to the present theme, The Void, with images referencing a work in progress for an ambitious installation in a 10 metre tall lift shaft at Testbed1 in London at the invitation of international architect and artist William Alsop for his next A Few Friends exhibition in November. Jane has drawn on her site-specific theatre experience to recreate the overpowering and oppressive effect of the apartheid wall. Her Summerhall exhibition invites the viewer to pass through a claustrophobic tunnel - a vast photo-montage highlighting the sprawling oppressive wall; embedded within the montage is a video piece created by the artist as she panned through a five minute walk with the camera lens scrutinising the wall's surface capturing brightly coloured, textured graffiti to a disconcerting, aggressively gritty sound track of rushing traffic and haunting Arabic music. “The Israeli apartheid wall is an obscenity,” according to the artist. “It incarcerates, it crushes morale, it extinguishes hope. But although ugly and oppressive, the wall’s surface is often intriguing. It is full of words, peeling paper, colours and texture, and this finds its way into my drawing and painting. Conceptually, the layering of marks reminds me of a palimpsest, where text is worn away but can never be completely erased. Actually the map of Israel reminds me of a palimpsest, the imposition of a new map over an existing one, but history cannot be entirely eradicated. Compared to those who live there, my experience was brief. Every time I went in I had a ticket to get out, but you cannot be a witness, a tear collector and then leave, forget and move on. The emotional memory remains too strong. It’s not so much sadness or despair that I feel, it’s rage. Rage at the unfairness of it all. The Holocaust was a European atrocity and yet it is the Palestinians who are being punished. That’s where my despair lingers and that is imbued in the essence of everything that I do.”

Into The Void can be seen at Summerhall, Edinburgh, until the end of the Autumn. www.summerhall.co.uk The Void installation is at Will Alsop  "Yet more friends,"  at Testbed1, Battersea, London on 28 November.www.testbed1.com