Quotes from the press about the Fashion course success in the Scottish Fashion Awards 2012

Judy R Clark


"I noted a wealth of the SFA talent, from graduates to designers, have all been down to good old Galashiels to study at Heriot Watt University where I once studied myself, a great university which is sending the Scottish fashion elite out in force!"

Faz Fashion Diary

Heriot-Watt University Talents Noticed For The Scottish Fashion Awards 2012

I am so proud to say that these are the students that have been noticed for their hard work by 
The Scottish Fashion Awards 2012. These 6 students from Heriot-Watt University have been 
choosen for "Scottish Graduate of The Year Award" which the award is sponsored by Marks & Spencer. 

Forty four sunsets

"Shame to see David Black miss out on Scottish Graduate of the year, 
but Joanne Mcgillivary was a worthy winner"

Vogue.com

Scottish Graduate of the Year:
Joanne McGillivary from Herriot Watt, 
David Black was awarded a high commended certificate.

Harpers Bazzar

Scottish Graduate of the Year – Joanne McGillivary from Herriot Watt

Elle

Scottish Graduate of the Year – Joanne Mcgillivary from Herriot Watt. 
David Black was also awarded a Highly Commended Certificate

Drapers online

Scottish Graduate of the Year – sponsored by Marks & Spencer –
JOANNE MCGILLIVARY FROM HERRIOT WATT. 
DAVID BLACK WAS ALSO AWARDED A HIGHLY COMMENDED CERTIFICATE

The Scotsman

Scottish Graduate - sponsored by Marks & Spencer – Joanne McGillivary from Heriot-Watt. 
David Black was also awarded a highly commended certificate

So we have made somewhat of a splash....

June 7th fashion show, Dovecot

So we had a very succesful show yesterday and if you follow the links below you will see the show and what goes on behind the scenes.

Show

Backstage

We would like to thank our two major sponsors MAC cosmetics and Charlie Miller Hair for an amazing look for the models, promoting the students work to the next level.
Our next outing is on Monday with the Scottish Fashion Awards

Heriot-Watt University’s School of Textiles & Design will present its end of year Exhibition and Graduate Fashion Show, Hidden Stories, at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios on Infirmary Street from 2^nd-8^th June 2012. 

Those displaying at the Dovecot include Deborah Morgan, who is among six of the School’s Graduates nominated from a total of eight for the Scottish Graduate of the Year Award, sponsored by Marks & Spencer, at the Scottish Fashion Awards 2012 this June. 

Among others showing are Post Graduate student Sam Fenn-Johnstone, winner of the Harlequin New Designers Award 2011, woven Textile Design student Stephanie Ruddie who recently completed a work placement with Bute Fabrics, and final year student Amber Hunter who is currently sponsored by Hermès. One Masters student in the mix is Rhona Ferguson, recently awarded a £2500 bursary by the Framework Knitters livery company for her project on pressure garments for the treatment of burn scars.  The bursary supports the costs of the project and presentation of her findings at the International Society for Burn Injuries conference in September 2012. In addition to the cash prize she has also been awarded 2 industrial mentors (Professor Julian Ellis OBE and Hon David Sanderson).

Featuring visual, aural and archival references to the School’s history and current local and global presence, the week’s programme of events includes the annual favourite Graduate Fashion Show on Thursday 7^th.  Exhibits will be a mix of graduating textile students and Creative Residencies, supported by Creative Scotland.

The School’s end of year show has previously seen designs from alumni including William Chambers, Judy R Clark, Obscure Couture and Samantha McEwen of Isolated Heroes. All of whom are also amongst the nominees for the 2012 Scottish Fashion Awards. Honorary Graduates of the School include Jasper Conran, Colin McDowell, Bruce Oldfield, Mary Portas, Mary Quant, Zandra Rhodes and Dame Vivienne Westwood. Rhodes said, "Heriot-Watt’s School of Textiles & Design is fabulous. Students: follow your dreams and never give up."  Westwood added, "The best facilities in the country."

Supported by WeSC, WeAretheSuperlativeConspiracy, and artistic members from multi-award winning Edinburgh hairdressing group Charlie Miller with make-up provided by MAC, the event this year has renowned British print designer Mark Eley as Creative Director.

Eley stated, "Thanks to our sponsors’ I’ll be working closely with Fashion Lecturer Mark Timmins & Textile Design Lecturer Mark Parker to ensure their Graduates get an excellent platform. I think design education is vital to the future of our industry and creating an environment and installations to showcase the School’s graduate fashion talent and its Hidden Stories is an exciting challenge for 2012."

Eley, who recently became a Trustee of Graduate Fashion Week alongside Fashion Director Hilary Alexander, is one half of the ELEY KISHIMOTO partnership forged in the early 90’s with Wakako Kishimoto. The two quickly gained a reputation for incisive and intelligent print design with their craftmanship gracing the world's catwalks via work with Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Alber Elbaz and Jil Sander, to name but a few before producing their own line in the mid 90’s.

Professor Alison Harley, Head of School, commented, "I am thrilled that the School has produced so many nominees for 2012's Scottish Fashion Awards, which is a credit to our staff. Having collaborated with Mark Eley previously, I knew his ethos and creativity would help us further to formulate an inspiring and educational platform for this exhibition, and a vital platform for our graduates."

Heriot-Watt University‘s School of Textiles & Design was established in 1883 to lead the textile industry in training and education. Their portfolio continues to evolve and reflect current and future developments in textiles, fashion and design. Today the School has a reputation as one of the world’s leading education and research institutions with specialist resources that are among the best in the world.

EDITOR'S NOTES

For more information on the School visit www.tex.hw.ac.uk

The Hidden Stories exhibition takes place at Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT and admission is free from 10.30am – 5.30pm from Saturday 2nd June - Friday 8th June (closed Sunday 3rd).

The Graduate Fashion Show is on Thursday 7^th June at 8pm, priced £15 seated and £10 standing.

Tickets are available from www.hubtickets.co.uk

Heriot-Watt offers a Summer School programme at High Mill in Galashiels for those who are interested in learning more about textiles and fashion.

The available courses are:

1. Introduction to Printed Textile Design
2. Introduction to Fashion Construction
3. Introduction to Machine Knitted Fabrics
4. Introduction to Weave

Week One: 17th-20th July

Week Two: 24th - 27th July

For information and booking

Tel: 01896 892285

E-Mail: shortcourses@hw.ac.uk

FOR PRESS ENQUIRIES, INTERVIEWS, IMAGES OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Hunt/ Leanne McGill at Genuine on 0141 243 2621.  Email: chris@genuinepr.com/leanne@genuinepr.com

Ozwald Boateng competition

Congratulations to Amber Hunter from the fashion course for achieving one of the top five winning designs in the Ozwald Boateng competition

Ozwald Boateng competition

Congratulations once again to the fashion course, 4th year win this competition.
To see the entries follow this link and click on view entries....

Scottish Graduate of the year nominations

The Scottish fashion awards are out.....

With the Scottish graduate of the year nominations being announced...

There are 8 graduates in the shortlist out of which the fashion course has got 6.....

The nominees are:

1. Natalie Traynor - Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design 
2. Jill MacLennan - Robert Gordon - Grays School of Art, Aberdeen 
3. Toni Roddie - Robert Gordon - Grays School of Art, Aberdeen 
4. Joanne McGillivray - Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design 
5. David Black - Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design 
6. Catriona Clark - Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design 
7. Coryn Dickson - Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design 
8. Deborah Morgan - Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design


Also nominated for the Scottish Textile Brand / Textile Designer of the Year sponsored by House of Fraser


 Spencer Clothing. Judy R Clark, Graduate of the fashion course.
Jaggy Nettle,  who teach into the school and helped to select the Fashion show for 2012


Also nominated Scottish Young Designer of the Year sponsored by Scottish Fashion Council


Isolated heroes, who graduated from the fashion course in 2011
Obscure Couture, who graduated in 2010


So we look forward to the awards evening........


In the intervening time you might wish to pop over to Judy R Clarks blog
where she says:


"All at Spencer Clothing are delighted to be short listed at the prestigious Scottish Fashion Awards this year. Colin and I have worked hard to produce a fresh new commercial brand designed in Scotland.
Only launching in January this year we are honoured to be up there with some of the best names in the industry.


I noted a wealth of the SFA talent, from graduates to designers, have all been down to good old Galashiels to study at Heriot Watt University where I once studied myself, a great university which is sending the Scottish fashion elite out in force!

Congratulations to all the nominees, looking forward to seeing you all on the red carpet!

Vote Now, for Johanna Fleming

Dear all
Please could you vote for Johanna ( masters student in the school) in the talent house competition to design a cover for Florence and the Machine.

Link to page and voting 

Johanna says that she needs 20 more votes to hit the magical 1000, so please do it now.....

12000 visitors

Welcome to our 12000th visitor (we are getting highly charged and excited by the attention)

Athif Dean and Emily Gough

Athif who graduated in June this year (2011) had a placement last year at McQueen (brilliant in itself and demonstrates the level of professional recognition that our students have within the fashion industry) this led to him being asked back to work on the dress which adorns the front cover of American Vogue this month....

We would also like to recognise Emily Gough, graduate 2011 who also worked on this garment during her placement at McQueen 

David Black FDI4

Congratulations to David Black on a two page spread in the September issue of Campus magazine

Please follow this link to the magazine and then navigate to pages 46 and 47

Open Day

This is it.....your chance to come and see us in reality....see the best facilities for fashion in the UK (Vivienne Westwood), see why we are ranked number 1 in Scotland and number 2 in the UK for Art and Design and meet our lovely students.



 (English Welsh and Northern Irish students will pay no more to study in the school than studying anywhere else in the UK...)

Scottish university of the year

Heriot-Watt university is named as Scottish university of the year by the Sunday Times newspaper.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper named the School of Textiles and Design as number 2 in the UK for Art and Design.So if you are thinking of studying fashion or textiles you know where to apply!

Post script
In the Sunday Times, the School of Textiles and Design, is number 1 in Scotland!

MTV VMA awards

Sunday, 28 August 2011

VMA REPORT

SOOOOOO all the weeks of excitement now over! And gutted to say ..... she didn't wear it. But still what an achievement! So overwhelming to be asked to send our threads to such a prestigious event such as the MTV VMA'S. ESPECIALLY when the label is technically only 2 months old and still not officially launched and we are only going to get BIGGER and BETTER! With sooooooo many exciting things going on at the moment this has still been one of the highlights of the year being asked to send a whole loada "Isolated Heroes" threads through to LA. Also very exciting to know that KREAYSHAWN now has a package of tasty bright tribal isolated heroes delights to wear whenever she feels like it and I am positive we will see her or one of the White Girl Mob rocking that bomber in her next video!







ONE BIG ROOM FULL OF BAD BITCHES!!!!!

post curtesy of Samantha Mcewan (Graduate 2011)

10,000

Thank-you for your continuing support, as you can see we have hit the money today, with our 10,000th hit!

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10 Ways to Make Your Design Portfolio More Appealing to Employers

10 Ways to Make Your Design Portfolio More Appealing to Employers
Thank-you very much to masters graduate Vivienne Yap for this link...
This is always a critical thorny issue and I would recommend reading this (returning 4th years especially)

In The Company of Wolves Fashion Showcase

In the Company of Wolves ( follow link to the left for facebook page) showcase, returns for its 4th year in Glasgow with two graduates of the School of Textiles and Design confirmed as contributers this year:

 Isla Scott and Samantha Mcewan.

Thanks to Emma Quinn TFDM3 for this heads up.....

Collections wanted for photoshoot

From: Elsa Liddell [mailto:elsaliddell@gmail.com]

Subject: photo shoot and catwalk events

Dear Heriot Watt Fashion Department,

I am working for a model agency called Maverick Models based in Manchester and we are currently looking for independent designers to feature in a couple of catwalk shows including/or a photo shoot planned for september/october. 

The photo shoot runs from 16th-24th September in the South of France with a large group of models (roughly 20 models). These images will be used for the agency and in model portfolios.

The catwalk show is on the 10th october/ 6th November being shown in both Manchester and Sheffield. We will have the show professionally photographed and filmed.

We are interested in featuring creative and innovative designs particularly in our photo shoot in September. In return, we offer the use of images taken from the show for the designers facebook page, as well as the use of the video of the show (which can be edited to suit your requirements) and full credit given on our website and blog. All items would be professionally cleaned and returned to them after these events. Would it be possible to pass this message on to fashion students that may have garments they would like to feature in either the photo shoot and/or catwalk shows?

If you have any further questions, please contact me via this email, or ring 07534 141 081. Alternatively contact us via our websitewww.maverickmodels.co.uk or ring 0161 236 2874.

Thank you, 

Elsa Liddell

Dear all I have been asked to pass this on to you if you are interested, please can you contact Elsa direct with a link to your online photos or as SMALL images via email.

Please can you also copy me in with your correspondence

Scottish Academy of Fashion showcase

You might be interested to access these online videos of the Scottish Academy of Fashion showcase.

As India's economy booms, so getting into a top university has become harder than ever.

Indian students finding it hard to get into top class Universities according to an article posted by the BBC today.

  If you are in this position and want to study Fashion or textiles in the most prestigious Fashion School in Scotland then drop us a line.... 

Nearly 9000 blog hits

Another milestone is a bout to be reached with only 79 more hits to make 9000. (we have now reached this!!!on the 5th of August 2011)

Comments are as always welcome and if you have a blog that you would like listed then please let me know.. NEW you can sign up by email and never miss a post....

Thinking about fashion as a career? then look at the previous post about applications for September 2012...

This 9000 came from here

HMM are we turning into a train-spotter site (Anoraks, Flasks and little note books inspire anyone?)

Oh yes and this is the 151st post since we started......