While the whole fashion industry is racking their brains to welcome new changes, the top art colleges are also actively exploring the new development of the fashion industry. Under their training, a group of young designers are about to enter the fashion industry to make waves, and the college has also prepared an online graduation station for them to make the most serious appearance! This year, we will bring you the 2020 Fashion Design Graduation Works Exhibition of RCA, LCF and RISD, the overlords in the field of British and American fashion education, as an example. Let's find the trend forecast of artistic creation from these trendsetters in the fashion industry!
RCA/LCF/RISD Fashion Design Graduation Works Exhibition
Rhode Island School of Design RISD
This year's graduation exhibition of RISD was launched online, and 300 graduates were invited to participate, including student works from 16 professional directions, including images, web pages, videos and other forms open to all the public.
by Alla Alsahli
Source: RISD official website
A total of 18 clothing design professional works were collected in this graduation exhibition. Rhode Island School of Design The clothing design specialty of RISD attaches great importance to a wide range of creative practices, and the presentation of such practical results requires the collection of various senses and the expression of the author's ideas.
by Amanda Glickman
Source: RISD official website
So in this graduation exhibition, the college emphasized that students need to express their emotional experience of clothing in words and time, such as the feeling of the clothing wearer, its materials, touch, audience, etc. As a part of everyone, clothing needs multi-dimensional communication forms to be realized.
In order to constantly challenge the trend and meet the huge industry change, RISD encourages students majoring in clothing to slow down, rethink, strive to fight against social influence, and use their creativity to achieve sustainable change.
The author is a young artist of Filippin. [Juana] is the manor of Filippin in the Spanish colonial period from the 16th to the 19th century in her imagination. The designer tells a story about Filippin's culture and history in the fashion of the 21st century.
This group of works is completely made of recycled denim. In the eyes of designers, the goal of the clothing industry at this stage is to slow down. As a future designer, he should also put his mind in order and not be covered by vanity.
by Kyra Buenviaje——Juana
Source: RISD official website
The author chose denim because it has a dynamic sense, a wide range of uses and a broad mass base. And most importantly, cowboys represent the spirit of every Filipino to work hard and pursue their dreams. Through her experiments on patterns, shapes and sewing methods, she hopes to express the beauty of work and arouse her deep love for the country.
RCA Royal College of Arts
This year is the last day for Huangyi 2020 Graduation Exhibition to be shown to the public. At present, the fashion profession has collected the graduation works of 51 emerging designers. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Huangyi content and students have also been constantly taking action, discussing and exploring the way to learn in the next step to deal with possible future industry disturbances.
by Shupin Zhao
Source: RCA official website
At the same time, Huangyi also expressed confidence and satisfaction with the students of the school. The two-year learning process has given them tenacious professional ability. Students' high starting point, high standards and high requirements for themselves will also encourage them to constantly make the loudest voice in the industry.
The works of students majoring in fashion design are divided into 8 sections: functional clothing, wearable clothing, fabric design, accessories, men's clothing, women's clothing, decorative clothing, and work clothes.
Huangyi hopes to cultivate not only contemporary designers but also art thinkers. They share their work with the times with their own visual language, forms, materials, ideas and tools.
In the current society, everyone is a community of shared destiny, and fashion designers should also shoulder the responsibility to create a harmonious and sustainable environment!
Community of shared future by Marcela Baltarete
Source: RCA official website
Marcela Baltarete's group of works is called [The Journey of Digital Relief for Human Beings]. It mainly uses 3D modeling, animation software and film editing to produce a group of animation short films. At the same time, VR and AR are integrated in the development process.
This group of works expresses how people suffering from depression, gender anxiety and chronic psychological diseases can realize introspection and self relief. The designer conducted a detailed survey of these people, and learned that their inner desire came from the real sense of identity of the society, because their psychological self-confidence also led to changes in their external image.
by Marcela Baltarete
Source: RCA official website
Therefore, this group of works is for the purpose of healing. At the same time, it depicts the idea of rejecting or accepting the change of body parts through animation. At the same time, it explores the transformation ability of the human body through the treatment of fabrics and materials, and also studies the possibility of self acceptance and physical and mental coordination.
The theme of this work attempts to re reflect and reshape through digitalization to explore human's own gender, health and psychological concepts. The author also hopes to challenge the real external demand in the increasingly rich world of digital projects.
London Fashion College LCF
Study abroad for fashion majors As one of the top six fashion schools in the world in the fashion industry, LCF has been at the cutting-edge level of fashion education for many years, and is known as the vane of fashion education industry. Therefore, the graduation exhibition of LCF every year has attracted much attention.
By Chia Hsuan Fanl - Fashion Illustration
Source: LCF official website
LCF fashion major emphasizes opening up new ways of thinking and working, as well as new design and manufacturing strategies. Students of this course will also learn the necessary research methods and manufacturing skills. In recent years, the college has also actively encouraged students to directly participate in the discussion of sustainable development issues in the fashion industry.
The creative works of LCF students have a variety of ways of expression in thought, so they can all get their own position in the industry. As required by this graduation exhibition, students can freely explore their own aesthetics and ideas and break through the boundaries between the current fashion and the future.
Professor Roni Brown, the dean of the department of LCF, also said before the commencement of the graduation exhibition, "There is no doubt that this class of graduates will be a generation that will help reposition and challenge the industry to become better, and the future of the fashion industry needs to be based on the premise of cherishing the relationship between people and the earth."
by Sikei Chong
Source: LCF official website
Katie Sorrell is a graduate majoring in LCF men's wear design. She is particularly interested in sustainability in fashion and focuses on creating clothing design works with environmental protection themes using unique design and textile methods.
The integration of digital design is also one of the important features of the transformation of contemporary fashion design. Combining the Adobe program and 3D software development design and style learned in school, it provides a sustainable and innovative method for her design work.
Her group of clothing design works is called [Fixed], which studies the influence of human function and mobility. The concept and scientific research of human body, mobility and functionality, as well as the fashion of gender freedom, are the key points in the research process of this group of works.
In terms of presentation form, the designer was inspired by the structure and contour of human organs after being penetrated by X-rays. Structurally, the author uses digital prints to create clothing works with a sense of movement and visual impact.
by Katie Sorrell
Source: LCF official website
Above all, we take the work of students majoring in clothing in the graduation exhibition of three top British and American universities as an example to illustrate the focus of the university on teaching and training methods for the fashion industry, and through three groups of representative student works, we once again verified the university's high-level teaching strength and personalized training style.
Every year's graduation exhibition is the best time for us to research institutions, understand professional trends, and cultivate our style. The online trend in recent years has also provided us with convenience in doing our homework in this area. For students who choose to study abroad but still have doubts about school selection, they can match one by one according to their future plans, interested directions, capital budgets, personal advantages, etc, Select the most suitable national colleges and universities, and make targeted preparations in advance according to requirements.
The creativity and passion shown by future artists are inspiring, and I hope that students can get some inspiration from today's sharing, grasp the tide of the times, seize the opportunity when the fashion industry is in urgent need of comprehensive talents, and strive to become a famous school to achieve their dreams!
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