by Jordan Lee-Pirrie & Luke Catleugh
Day 2 of Graduate Fashion Week has hit in London’s infamous Brick Lane and the standards have never been higher. Hundreds of young creatives from universities all over England got together. Luke and Jordan, who are fellow student ambassadors were on hand getting VIP access to shows from Manchester School of Art, Nottingham Trent & Bath Spa…
So we’re at GFW this week and we’ve met so many babes with banging fashion sense! The amaze Victoria Adamson has been snapping away to capture some of our fave looks. Check out the rest of her photography at @vickiphoto
Another day another set of stylish street fashion we just can’t get enough of thanks to the fab snapping of photographer David Nyanzi. Get inspired by how the GFW do and get their look for less…
Whether you fancy yourself as a photographer or want to go fashion full-time, nobody got anywhere without working for it so we put it to our panel of professionals to get their top tips on making it in the industry. Notepads at the ready…
Ella Masters – Illustrator
Always be prepared to work hard, you will have to do a lot of work behind the scenes. Be kind to yourself, you’ll probably get a lot of rejections so have faith in yourself and believe in your abilities. I always tell people to get into blogging and Instagram and use them to boost your creativity so clients can see your style and work – it’s free so everyone should!
Victoria Adamson – Photographer
Be prepared to work hard and don’t give up when knock backs come along. Networking is also key in this industry.
Jack Doheny – llustrator
This is actually a funny one for me to answer as I am still on the road to success myself and have goals I want to reach. However, what I would say is persistence and patience is everything. Once you have success keep producing and promoting yourself as nothing is guaranteed. Just do what you love and it will show, you will get noticed.
Sophie Hannah Richardson – Blogger
Keep at it. Whatever you want to go into don’t leave your dream behind. You might have to take a few different routes to get somewhere but you will.
David Nyanzi – Street Style Photographer
Just do what you’re passionate about. The money will surely follow.
Day three and today we were wowed by the super talented Jack Doheny. Jack joined boohoo for a day of live drawings of GFW and did not disappoint. Get inspired and find out more about him in our round up below!
Check out his Insta here
After months of planning, we finally hit London today for Graduate Fashion Week. Celebrating its 25th year, GFW is the UK’s most exciting platform for emerging talent and we are buzzing to be one of the show’s official sponsors.
It’s got a hella place in my heart, I showed my own robot themed graduate collection here TEN years ago this June (please don’t use this information against me and calculate my age). I’ll be here all week to give you an inside look and I promise to bring you the highs, lows and even the outtakes of the event.
5.30am Alarm Bells
I may be a London girl at heart but boohoo HQ is based in Manchester so it was an early morning powered by a serious amount of coffee and good vibes. Obviously terrified I was going to miss my alarm, unable to come out of Tom Hardy sponsored slumber, I spent most of the night wide awake considering everything that could go wrong the following day.
10 am Quick Change
SO the expectation Vs reality of life in fashion is widely discussed, but really, if you think it’s all almond milk lattes and an endless stream of free sh*t, think again. Before heading to the Brick Lane venue, me and four work BFFs crammed into the one room that was ready for check in to do a quick change and refresh. Embarrassingly the size of my bag caused one of the girls to ask if I was moving back to London. I just like to be prepared people.
Back again for another crazy day! This time our 10th birthday design a dress comp winner Evie Maskrey stopped by to talk inspo and the scary world of adulting and illustrator Ella Masters (who you need to follow on Insta btw) made us look picture perfect!
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