Bright New Stars In London Fashion Week

The London Fashion Week of February this year seems to be the first fashion event held in the past as the British resolution to withdraw from the European Union, which means that most of the dialogue here will inevitably revolve around how the fashion industry in the country will relocate itself in a single market after the customs union. People have yet to find the answer to this question, but the current turmoil has not stopped the creation of any creativity on the British soil. During the London Fashion Week, the multicultural charm of fashion shows great momentum, and the most impressive one has to mention the cutting-edge and niche brand designers strongly supported by Fashion East.

Fashion East, a non-profit designer support program created by designer Lulu Kennedy in 2000, will provide fashion week display opportunities, business guidance and financial sponsorship for three women dress designers and three men's wear designers in each season. Fashion East has a good eye in identifying tomorrow's stars, including JW Anderson, Martine Rose, Jonathan Saunders, House of Holland, House, and so on, and countless designers set sail through them, and finally have their brilliant design career.

Moving to the designer Charlotte Knowles and Ashley Williams, as a member of the new generation of Fashion East program, they have attracted much attention in recent years. They also released an independent 2020 autumn and winter show on the first day of London Fashion week. At the same time, Lulu Kennedy invited five designers to participate in Fashion East. The five most popular designers include Gareth Wrighton, Saul Nash, and shoe designer Ancuta Sarca.

SAUL NASH

Saul Nash is a new designer who graduated from the Royal College of Art men's wear design course in 2018. In particular, Saul Nash is also a talented dancer. Since he was formally unveiled last year in the fashion industry, he has quickly emerged from the two personal hobbies displayed in the combination of dance and fashion.

In the Saul Nash show, most of the models are dancers and dancers who are dancers when they dance, and these non professional models twists and turns across the overpass. The free and smooth physical interaction between them is the seamless connection that Nash has been considering for years to integrate the dance into the fashion world. Saul Nash respected the aesthetics of street style costumes. In the 2020 autumn and winter series, he flexibly applied technical fabrics and made light, knitted and waterproof nylon made of black, gray and blue.

The designer is an African born boy who grew up in London and has had a profound impact on Nash. He has explored the relationship between fear and stereotype in the latest series. When gangster culture breeds, when violent crimes take their lives every day, what does this mean as a black teenager in London? What is the meaning of Nash? The answer is that they are both perpetrators and victims.

In this way, the flyover was filled with boys and girls dressed in black and white sportswear. They seemed to be gangster gatherings on the street corner. Gradually, when people walk alone to them, they will manifest fear body language. They push each other to create a combination of dance and dance, and prove the potential of this expressive form.

ANCUTA SARCA

You may not know the name of shoe designer Ancuta Sarca, but you will be familiar with her works. Ancuta Sarca is a designer born in Romania. In recent years, she has attracted wide attention from her shoes made of Nike sneakers and retro high heels. Riding on the east wind of social media, on the basis of building a brand of fans, luckily entered the fashion game. Today Sarca has moved to London, has its own display space in London Fashion Week, and will launch a new adventure with Fahsion East.

The shoes of Ancuta Sarca are different from others, except for their highly identifiable mix styles, as well as the idea of recycling and upgrading of shoes advocated by these shoes. Ancuta Sarca sports high heels are all made of old Nike sports shoes and high heeled shoes that are found in second-hand stores as raw materials, which also represents the characteristics of Ancuta Sarca's handmade production and can not be produced in large quantities. With a combination of high and low quality, she combines rubber material with gem green crocodile skin, combines the leopard print leather with red rubber boots, makes the discarded garbage into chic and elegant, and each of the two works perfectly shows the harmony and harmony with all kinds of styles of high fashion.

GARETH WRIGHTON

Lulu Kennedy, founder of Fashion East, noticed the fashion adventurous spirit of Gareth Wrighton as early as 2015. Wrighton's work is knitted, with handcraft aesthetics, and is also good at making special headwear and masks. As he once said, "I want to make some slow works in this fast digital age and tell a story in every detail". Wrighton's hand knitted fabric usually takes a long time to complete and is very durable. As a member of the Fashion East family, Gareth Wrighton released his latest series at the latest London Fashion Week show.

Perhaps Wrighton has tried photography, modeling, art direction, fabric weaving and even computer programming before entering the field of fashion. The design method adopted by the designer is also unorthodox. He follows the design form of "autobiographical style of fictional characters". He usually creates a role in designing, and always gives them good names and gives them background stories. So in the new season, we saw the clothes made of 344 used cotton pads, filled with ketchup and mustard on T-shirts, and disgusted with the smell of fast food in the crowd. The model was wearing "VOTE FOR". BUSH! "The slogan sweater has created a humorous effect, a cartoon dress and a unique modeling of bowling dolls. Every one who appears on the stage seems to have become a fictional character created by Wrighton and has its own story.

Wrighton also continues the past "negative", such as he always questioned the reality of the real world, always indulging in the anti Utopian side. He once again used the design to satirize consumerism and fast food life, and the American popular popular culture, using color and interest to imply a twisted, desolate and no one can escape the black humor story.

CHARLOTTE KNOWLES

Charlotte Knowles founded its own brand together with partner Alexandre Arsenault in 2017, and joined the ranks of Fashion East in the same year. Inspired by summer's holiday in the British seaside, Charlotte Knowles's work is characterized by the integration of sportswear and bathing suits. The backpack is added to a series of single products based on a corset, which makes up for the lack of pockets and storage space in women's clothing. At the same time, she created a dress from a female perspective, though it is a corset, but it has a weakening curve effect, intended to "deconstruct sexism". Apart from the structure, she also focuses on the use of soft and creative fabrics, such as silicone gauze shirts, to imitate the appearance of wet clothes sticking to the skin.

When Kim Kardashian West created billions of dollars in profits from her Skims series, it also seemed to indicate a trend in the fashion market of underwear, which made Charlotte Knowles take advantage of it. In the Charlotte Knowles 2020 autumn and winter series, the main colors refer to all kinds of complexion, from white, beige to caramel, and all kinds of tights are also overwhelmed. The fringed skirts with floral patterns and the laced fur trousers made of brown and orange coloured autumn colors reveal a little Bohemia style. The symbolic corset is a reflection of Vivienne Westwood's works in the 90s of last century.

ASHLEY WILLIAMS

Ashley Williams is one of the fastest rising designers in the fashion industry. Since its participation in the three quarter Fashion East joint exhibition in 2013, she has won the ELLE Style Awards New Designer Award in 2015. Ashley Williams is good at embracing stream culture, cartoon elements, and 80 The bold colors of her age are filled with sunshine, rainbows and lollipop.

The Ashley Williams 2020 autumn and winter fashion show starts with a fluffy skirt and is studded with pink banknotes. This appearance reflects the designer's willingness to look for references from all kinds of different cultures. This season, Ashley Williams has been picked up from the movie screen. As the latest inspiration, the villains of the DC cartoon, the Thelma movie Louise, the cartoon movie Jessica Rabbit in the cartoon, and the heroine Rose in the Titanic are all on the costumes.

In addition, there are portraits of Monalisa and Einstein, loose 90s style suits, and even some fluffy cute shoes. The designer prints different patterns on the neat satin fabric, while the lotus leaf pickled dress, the black and white feather skirt and the huge white yarn dress are even more striking. Many of the series also used Ashley Williams's surplus waste in the season. She reassembled the fragments to create a special appearance. In the end, careful viewers will also find cooperation with Samsung in the Ashley Williams show, and the first unveiled mobile phone Galaxy Z, Williams, has made a perfect proportion of the Mini Handbag for this phone. As always, Ashley Williams continues its wealth and interest.

This year is the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Fashion East project. They are making use of Archive who participated in the project designer to create a special celebration. It is not hard to predict that after that, Fashion East will continue to take London as a stronghold and inject more new design power into the fashion industry. Whether it is Charlotte Knowles, Ashley Williams, Gareth Wrighton, Saul Nash, or Ancuta Sarca, they seem to have a common love for digital technology, behavior art and the spirit of the times, belonging to the new generation of designers. In the first ten years of 2020, fashion stars are beginning to write their own success stories.