Graduate Fashion Basis to showcase 6 designers at LFW

Graduate Fashion Foundation is definitely returning to London Trend Week this February for the 4th season to showcase 6 emerging designers - Sarah-Louise Koessler, Tyesha Camacho, Sophie Parnaby, Christopher Reid, Hena Begum, and Joshua Scott.

The showcase will maintain collaboration with Visualist, the new productivity suite for fashion creatives, to help expand elevate graduate talent learned at Graduate Style Week 2020 to a worldwide audience.

Graduate Fashion Foundation is certainly partnering with Visualist and their workforce of creatives to produce this season’s digital custom content for London Manner Week, that will including an ground breaking photoshoot and video recording creation for all six designers.

The team at Visualist met the cast and crew for the first time on shoot day time and instead of being physically on set, the six designers who are spread over the UK and Portugal, participated remotely via private livestream in order to direct and guide the styling of their collections.

Delight Campbell, director of company partnerships at Graduate Fashion Foundation, said in a statement: “The six amazing graduate designers which were selected for this incredible opportunity now have the chance to further establish themselves in the style industry at the same time when it hasn't been considerably more difficult to take action.

“We happen to be so grateful for Visualist for bringing their experience and experience to permit the pupils to collaborate remotely to ensure we creatively and accurately represent their manufacturer to the world.”

Cherie Yang, founder of Visualist, added: “For Visualist, supporting Graduate Fashion Foundation’s emerging talent offers been most rewarding. We’re particularly motivated by the diversity and talent of this group of designers, cast and crew, and in addition their openness to embracing fresh ways of dealing with Visualist. We’re looking forward to continuing to aid GFF’s talent and boosting their imaginative workflows.”

The designer’s taking part includes Sarah Louise Koessler, a French/British creator who graduated from the University of Brighton and happens to be based in Portugal focusing on her eponymous company; London-based creator Tyesha Camacho who founded Camat by Tyesha as portion her graduate collection whilst their studies at University of the Creative Arts Rochester; and Yorkshire-based, double Graduate Manner Foundation Award-winning creator Sophie Parnaby, who graduated in June 2020 with a BA (Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University and happens to be building her luxury apparel and accessories brand from her studio.

The ultimate three designers are Scottish artist Christopher Reid who graduated from Edinburgh University of Art; Hena Begum who launched her manufacturer after graduating from the style and textiles study course at The University of Portsmouth and earned the Graduate Vogue David Band Textiles Award 2020; and avant-garde fashion print developer Joshua Scott, who graduated from University of the Innovative Arts Rochester and continues his part-period Masters in Printed Textiles for Manner and Interiors whilst perusing his experimental manufacturer.

On being selected to showcase, Joshua Scott said: “I’m using the infancy of my company as an opportunity to keep my horizons broad as an avant-garde developer but also a printing artist. This opportunity is enabling me to develop as a custom and the shoot process with Visualist to create the LFW imagery is a big learning curve. It was truthfully such a shock to have the email expressing I’ve been nominated and I’ve been on cloud nine ever since. Last season was quite challenging and getting this media was a breath of oxygen, I’m just consequently grateful that I’m addressing share might work.”