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!

Roisin McTameney graduate of the school

Source: youtube.com via Roisin on Pinterest

Roisin went off into the big wide world and has completed her masters at LCF in London and this is the end result.

25000 visitors and a visit to Vegas

Well time flies and we welcome our 25000th visitor, a quarter of a century (or really a 100000th.....)

So in celebration of this epic milestone, please enjoy the following......

Until next time.....

The first walkthrough...8th and 9th of March 2012

Last week the 4th years had their first walkthrough
link to photos here
Tweaks to do.........

Mary Portas: Honorary graduate talks pants in her new TV series

In the middle of the worst recession since the war, retail guru Mary Portas (honorary graduate of the school) believes a a window of opportunity has opened to restore some life back to British manufacturing.

Transport costs and foreign labour costs are rising, so Mary's heading to Middleton, Greater Manchester, to set up a new production line for British-made knickers.

Mary wants consumers to understand the value of buying British: skills, UK jobs, pride in our manufacturing heritage.

It will be a challenge for Mary, who normally frequents an altogether different shop-floor. She not only needs to breathe life back into a mothballed factory, she has to persuade the old seamstresses to teach the new recruits, and track down some of the last fabric suppliers in the country.

Will she pull it off, or will her first ever foray into manufacturing be simply a brief encounter?

 Mary Portas for Playtex

Applicants day

Just a little reminder for our applicants, of some of the amazing things that you saw...

23000 visitors

To celebrate our 23000th visitor we are going back to visit some beautiful women from 23000BC

Venus of Lespugue

Venus of Willendorf

 Morrocan early woman

German Venus

London fashion week, graduates and their exposure

Just a brief note of what some of our graduates have been up to in London fashion week.

William Chambers Scottish accessory designer of the year

"I love supporting local talent. Being Scottish, theres an unusually grand sense of pride I feel when another Scot does well and with William Chambers there's no difference. He has been invited by the British Fashion Council to exhibit as part of Stephen Jones' 'Headonism' so today I took a jaunt into the showroom that was filled with hats on tripods. It is quite something. With a range of floral and geometric shapes on display, I could see a truly credible progression from his past work, without leaving behind his trademark elegance and poise. The only thing that I did question was the placement ofCharlie Le Mindu beside William Chambers - though, in a bizarre way I think they complimented each other."

anothergarcon Blog

Obscure Couture showcased at A La Mode during London Fashion Week

Obscure Couture showcases its designs and radical fashions at A La Mode during the show's seventh consecutive season as part of London Fashion Week.

GUZOVAART

Friday, 10 February 2012Fashions Finest Loves

Russian born artist and designer. After leaving Russia, Larisa has stayed in France and Spain, and she finally ended up in Scotland, in Edinburgh where she is permanently based since 2001.

She post graduated from Heriot-Watt University in 2011 as a Master of Arts in Fashion and Textile Design. At the end of her MA Degree she has been awarded as 'The Best Design Project' working with wool, from the Worshipful Company, with Woolmen's Award.

Russian – born, UK based designer, Larisa has found inspiration and direction in her own national identity, where her main point of influence came from her childhood memories and love of nature.

She is fascinated by natural textures, shapes and colours. She translates this into forms in such a way that they have a unique contemporary style.
Through her art she can bring people closer to nature by using different textures, textiles and forms, be it through digital, fashion garment or medium art.

Emerging designer GUZOVAART will be showcasing at Fashions Finest London Fashion week show 18 - 19 Westbury Hotel Conduit Street, Mayfair, London. 

Judy R Clark with her new label SPENCER

on sale at PURE

Scottish Academy of Fashion showcase 2011

We have a new PR company Genuine PR who will be working with us in the run up to this years fashion show June 7th 2012 at the Dovecot in Edinburgh. This movie showcases the work of the Scottish Academy of Fashion from its first year...and can be found on their website.

22000 visitors

Welcome 22000th visitor, it is lovely to see the fashion courses website reaching over 2500 hits a month. in celebration of this, we offer you a vision of Dubai, which sits just north of 22 degrees latitude, where we have our middle east campus

so there we are, a little piece of Scotland in Dubai.

Vote for Judy R Clark

"I have been nominated for Best Designer at the Scottish Variety Awards and would appreciate it if you could spare two minutes to give me a little vote by following the link below. "

Would be much appreciated.  http://www.clyde1.com/sva

Thank you 

x

Judy R Clark

T: 07933658642

Check out JUDY'S BLOG!

www.Judyrclark.com

21000 visitors meet 21st century architecture

In the 21st century we were able to do challenging things with architecture or should that be artchitecture? because of the widespread adoption of computers in architectural practices across the world. New construction technologies and materials are also drivers in this movement and all of these influences are relevant to fashion...

Sit back and enjoy some of the Spanish achitect Calatravas most beautiful modern structures.....

Today we have been learning about fashion drawing

One of the important things as a fashion designer is to be able to communicate your ideas and this little slide show gives you an insight into how students start to sketch ideas in a loose creative way. 

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.....

Fashion, Art and life drawing

This February,Edinburgh based Artist Christine Clark launches her new workshops;an intensive one day course which will give you the Chance to engulf yourself in the world of fashion, art and life drawing.

The inaugural course is called FUSED and begins with a stunning fashion installation combining fashion garments from designer Judy R Clark with an eclectic mix of shoes, lamps, fabrics, found objects, photographs and ornate clothing to provide an exciting space for the Life Model and participants to work from.

The Workshop is a one day intensive course designed to improve drawing skills, support the study of other courses or for those wishing to build a portfolio for higher education. Equally there is an opportunity for those interested in the world of 'fashion meets art' to come along to have some fun and explore new techniques.

Check out the link below for all the details.

THE ILLUSTRATIVE WORKSHOP

20,000 visitors

Welcome to the 20,000th visitor, we are sure that he must be an active sort of chap, not unlike the men below.

Another update on Judy R Clark

Following on from the success as thechosen designer for Fords 100th anniversary, Judy has been appointed as the designer for the new clothing label "Spencer"

Ford celebrates 100 years with a graduate of the fashion course, Judy Clark

Judy R Clark (Scottish Designer of the year nominee) was commissioned to make a dress using Ford car parts and if you follow this link to Marie Claire, youcan read all about it.

Congratulations to another of the fashion courses succesful designers