LCFMA19 Menswear Catwalk
This year the historical St George’s Bloomsbury church welcomed the 12 MA Fashion Design Technology Menswear graduates who were selected to showcase their final projects.
Bongseok Gwon has tried to express the struggles that we all experience to find out who we are and define what we want in life.
Bongseok Gwon
“This project is an expression of myself in the quest to find the meaning of life”, said Bongseok Gwon
Ahmed Serour found his inspiration in male belly dancers, merging traditional Egyptian kitsch aesthetics with trash couture.
Ahmed Serour
Ahmed Serour
Ahmed Serour
Chao He plays with textures, colours and patterns in an attempt to go beyond our understanding of fashion and explore new possibilities
“My project is inspired on how to extend our awareness, in order to have the opportunity to explore parallel universes where we might exist.” Chao He
Chao He
Aiming to express the vagueness of the objects and human identities, Daoyuan’s collection, tells the story that there is nothing really defined.
Daoyuan Ding
Daoyuan Ding
Chinese designer Jialin Chen took the lead and opened the show with her collection Always the years between us.
Her designs aimed to demonstrate how fashion design can embrace emotions through aesthetic values and bring personal experiences to life.
Jialin Chen
The collection YOU, by Chinese designer Liu Chen, explores the presence of memories, life and identity in clothing and garments.
“The sexually aggressive elements combined with humour through colour and patent leather is showing the self-control and individual liberalism
by ‘binding’ and ‘releasing’ elements”, said Liu Chen.
Liu Chen
Natalie Rushton presented a very personal collection, dedicated to her grandparents
The collection is inspired by a pearl necklace that she received from them as an eternal reminder of their youthful memories.
Steven Pasarro’s collection reflects the first explorations focused on the multiple bodies and minds that we posses.
“In a world where nothing is constant, growth became my fascination, a territory to conquer and master”
Steven Passaro
British designer Rachel Brown developed her distinctive collection by applying minimalism to her design process
By focusing on developing simple and minimally unwavering silhouettes, she attempt to “reduce the garment to as fundamental a state as possible”
Rachel Brown
Film and paternity come together in this collection created by Siyi Long.
Siyi told us that with her collection, she hopes to motivate fathers to experience the best of parenthood through fashion
Basing her collection on the study of the millennia lifestyle, Suhyoung Choi created her designs to allow more ease in movement
She explained: “The NoMics collection is a poetic reflection of ergonomics, portraying utility versus body.”
Suhyoung Choi
Zhuti Pan was inspired by commuting around London, where passengers stand closely with their personal space being constantly being invaded
She explained: “proxemics is a main clue for the collection, which helped me to developing my own design methodology: folding and overlapping.”