FASHION SCOUT AW15 Round-Up!

Fashion Scout AW15 has come to an end!

A huge congratulations goes out to all our catwalk designers:

Jamie Wei Huang

Minnan Hui

James Kelly

Mariana Jungmann

Ashley Isham

Daniela Barros & Joao Melo Costa

CCUOCO

Judy Wu

Apu Jan

Youjia Jin

Ones To Watch winners

Mimi Tran

ROHMIR

Soojin Lee

Zeynep Kartal

Kiev Fashion Days

Xiao Li

Gyo Yuni Kimchoe

Pam Hogg

Lulu Liu

Jacob Birge

Dora Abodi

Marko Mitanovski

CJ Yao

& FAD Competition Finalists & Winner 2015.

We'd also like to extend a massive thank you to both our Exhibition Designers and Emerging Designers who starred in Monday's exclusive showcase.

A massive thank you goes out to our sponsors, Body Shop, Toni & Guy, Vita Coco, Propercorn, Propress, Fashion Monitor, Disorder Magazine, Snog and Miriam's Munchies!

See you at #FashionScoutSS16! 

COLLECTION | CJ Yao

C.J. Yao kicked off her first show since graduating from Central St.Martins this afternoon at Freemasons Hall. Her collection was inspired by a dream she had back home in China, this dream consisted of everything around her being magnified and everyone had actually shrunk back to their childhood size. The collection was based on this dream which included a lot of oversized pieces linking back to the childhood element.

Think Bill & Ben meets Peter Pan with some added leather and faux fur hand warmers. The collection was very wool based and included a lot of panels on the coats. Block colours were also the main features from the show however a few panels of print, leather and PVC made appearances. The thick, layered colour palette is perfect for autumn and the pieces were styled with low belts, slit trousers and fur face pieces.

The outfits looked great bouncing down the runway with C.J’s shoes that are collaboration with Ecco. These shoes made the smart pieces in the collection look more casual which was an interesting contrast.

My favourite pieces from the collection were the cropped wool trench coats, which were layered on top of other pieces along with black leather gloves. I also loved the use of the massive oversized hoods that covered most of the models faces along with the synched waist dresses with the Ecco boots.

Overall I really enjoyed the collection and loved the pixie look the models were given by Label M and Body Shop. The show in fact did feel as if we were in Yao’s dream and the whole childhood link was really interesting. The audience got extremely excited when we saw she had in fact designed a kidswear outfit and we saw a young boy walking down the runway at the end of the show.

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AmberJenner_

COLLECTION | Marko Mitanovski

An alien-like model army of all black everything and a pop of one painted white model graced the runway this morning at Fashion Scout. Serbian designer Marko Mitanovski sure knows how to make a collection stand out with previously dressing stars such as Lady Gaga, Paloma Faith and Steve Strange.

It was obvious the models must have been in hair and make up for a good few hours before the show, a lot of them were painted completely black in order to go with the dark, grungy and sexy collection. Marko was inspired by birds, nature and sculpture which made massive collars, gigantic shoulder pads and very, very big puffer sleeves the main looks for this collection.

Manipulated leather and croc fabrics gave the pieces lots of texture and shape however a corset element was added to this in order to make the pieces look fitting, sexy and more feminine. We were also given previews The looks were styled with fish net tights and plain black pointed shoes so all of the attention was on the well-detailed garments. The faces of the models were either hidden through the use of black paint or beaded headpieces, his gave the collection a creepy feel about it as they had no identity and were these characters created by Marko instead.

The slow music playing in the background and the models creeping down the runway created a great lot of suspense leaving the audience interested and engaged throughout the whole show. The finale featured a fast pace collection of models strutting to a strings version of Michael Jacksons ‘Smooth Criminal’ which gave us an amazing overview of the detail and work that must have gone into all of these works of art.

AmberJenner_

Photography by Tomas Turpie @whyteswan

www.tomasturpie.com