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Flowers and blossom form the core of Cindy’s inspiration. In the growing and the blooming of nature, she finds seeds of hope, something she feels the world needs much more of at the moment. Light colours, mixing pink and blue, reflect the natural world, and a sense of peace and growth. The shapes of petals contribute to the silhouettes, and smaller petal-shapes and beads allow for a three-dimensional and tactile aspect to the garments. 

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Iris has filled her collection with energy, drawing on three specific sources of inspiration: Chinese architecture, abstract street graffiti, and feature of Japanese Samurai clothing. The pale base colours reflect the Anhui style of architecture, which is rich with asymmetry. The colours of the graffiti then lend a sharp contrast, and combined with the top line shapes, echo Samurai-like patterns. The final collection thus combines both minimalism and rebellion.

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Lanna is particularly interested in working with different materials; how these can metamorphose from one thing to another, and the feelings this can create on the wearer. Her experience of drawing Japanese manga and the ancient art of story-telling on hand-painted scrolls was the starting point for her collection, where she records her personal journey of study in the UK through her own painted designs which link together the various elements of her collection.

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Inspiration for the look of Lois’s collection comes from an unexpected source – the lack of sight. With concern for the ways in which blind people can be marginalised by society, she has focussed specifically on the dotted language of Braille as the source of her designs. The dots cover her clothes, and become flowers, showing a transition from communication to the beauty of the world. With the dots forming texture on the garments, the designs themselves then become a form of communication which can reach everyone. 

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Paris’s collection comes an eclectic selection of sources – ballet, tutus, neon and body mapping. The first two are there to allow for the costume and performance aspects that we all experience in our everyday lives: dressing in the morning, moving through the world. Neon is used as a modernist touch, in contrast to the more traditionally neutral colours associated with ballet. Body-mapping is used to enhance, or disguise the silhouette, further subverting the very close lines of traditional ballet outfits. 

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Perla looks at a variety of cultural sources for inspiration; not only in current fashions, but also traditional skills and hand work. Her aesthetic is a combination of craft, culture and modernity, as in her current collection, which was inspired by tribal art, African masks and pop culture ‘tribes’. These elements were combined with abstract and cubist motifs.

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Yan has a special interest in hand-drawing and the craft of fashion. She also explores the connections between graphic design and fashion design, along with geometry and compositional lines taken from an artist’s perspective. For her final collection, she start to research fashion psychology and the personality of the wearer of her clothes. She has combined these elements of ‘character’ with historical and modern references to create a collection inspired by the notion of confusion.

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Zoey approaches fashion design with a graphic eye for detail – her collection ‘break bread with you’ came from the notion of sharing food. Practical and utilitarian garments, such as aprons inspired her fabrics, colours and silhouettes, which are simple, sculptural, minimalist and elegant in natural fabrics such as silk and cotton blends, textured wools, double face cloths and linens.

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