The London College Of Style

LCS

The London College Of Style

http://www.londoncollegeofstyle.com/index.html

After 3months of intensive study, and exploring my inner creativity my journey at The London College Of Style is nearly over. I would most certainly recommend the course to anyone with an interest in fashion styling, the course caters for what ever side of the industry you are interested in. You cover all aspect of the fashion industry; Personal Client and Body Shape, The History of Fashion, Business, Brand Marketing, TV/Celebrity and Show Styling, Fashion and Style Writing, Live Projects, Customisation, Portfolio and Editorial Fashion Shoots. 

Through-out the course we have many guest speakers which have been advising us on emerging into the fashion industry, also sharing with us some of their extensive industry knowledge. Ronke Fashola, founders of Stylizers and currently designer her own vintage collection. Ronke was fascinating to meet and taught our Body Shape lessons, alongside teaching us Colour Analysis, she also was very helpful in sharing her industry advise. Shyla Hassan, incredible celebrity and fashion stylish and inspirational with her editorial styling advise. Prince Cassius, Fashion Blogger and afro king! A joy to know, he comes full of fashion news and advise to guide you on your journey. Arcadia PR came to visit us last week, they gave excellent advise on working with PR's as a stylist, and how the PR industry worked. 

The course also had business specialist visit us, he advise us on the do's and don'ts of running your own personal styling business. We also visited Modus PR company, where we viewed the showrooms and gained a true idea of the runnings of a working PR showroom. Our History of Fashion Lessons were run by the Fantastic Claire Angel, Fashion Lecturer, customisation expert and a lifetime of fashion knowledge.  

The highlight of the course has to be attending London Fashion Week! 

With the expert advice and knowledge of leading fashion stylist professionals, Wendy Elsmore, Dan Blake and Siobhan Graham the course has been a triumph. I would advise anyone interested in a career in Fashion to apply to study with LCS (The London College of Style). 

LCS has given me the confidence to express myself through styling. I now feel prepared to emerge into the industry, and succeed to my true potential. 

Going to miss you Class! 

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http://www.princecassius.com/

http://www.arcadiagroup.co.uk/

http://www.moduspublicity.com/

http://www.claireangel.com/

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w a t e r

E l e m e n t s

W a t e r 

The Elements, Water, Fire, Earth and Air. I chose to explore Water, and what greater inspiration than Alexander McQueens S/S RTW 2010, Plato's Atlantis Show. Alexandra McQueen, i believe the greatest when it comes to fashion and creativity. He truly inspired me for the this project, the images below speak for themselves of his brilliance. 

I wanted to make this shoot literal but with an edge. Now obviously theres no way you can re-create McQueens excellence, you'd be mad to even try! But be inspired by him, like I was. I have taken aspects of his show, and explored a high street customised extravaganza, with plastic and shimmer, metallics and spikes, and created a waterfall of fashion. 

I worked with a fantastic team of creatives, a stunningly brilliant model, and again photographer Christopher Hench. Below are a few snapshots of my waterfall look, I am excited to share the real thing with you in due course!  

w a t e r 

Graphic Style

Get Graphic

I recently was lucky enough to work with the fantastic photographer Christopher Hench, and create some colour popping images with graphic prints. 

I wanted to create a fresh, eye catching, clean graphic style. I took my inspiration from Mary Katrantzou latest SS13 collection. 

I found her exotic mix of print and floral just breath taking, I also love the light and the soft feel that the style of clothes bring. They create an atmosphere, and tell a story, alongside giving us, as individuals a chance to reflect the clothes off are personality. 

This is what I wanted to do, create a look that could hold its own but have character and personality with it. I tried experimenting with graphic prints with a geometric style, that creating a head turning style but with a high fashion end. 

Below are some sneak shots from the day. Can't wait to share with you the real thing! 

An extravaganza of high street graphic prints! 

Graphic Ideas

Get Graphic

 

Get Graphic is an exciting topic to shoot, there are endless ideas that pop into your head of weird, wonderful and wacky prints clashing into each other creating an sensation and explosion of colour. 

But when I think of Graphic, I like simple but bold.

These Marc Jacob pictures above are a big inspiration to me. I love the simplicity of the style but the use of bold clashing prints. I wanted to try and create a similar look on a high street budget! 

Below are a few ideas I collected of a possible look to re create. I've put together a bold printed Topman suit over a dyed yellow T-shirt, a burn orange beanie and red Rayban shades, my favourite aspect of the look are the bold brogue boots.

This is a great and coast effective way to achieve a graphic vibe! 

SADE ENGLISH LAUNCH

Sade English Fashion Show

Last Wednesday I was invited to see the launch of Sade English's first collection. The clothes had an overall gothic element, they symbolised opulence, boldness and structure which are Sade English's individual design techniques. 

Sade English, at just 21 she has graduated from The London College of Fashion, designed and launched her own collection with a PR team backing her, featured in Vogue Italia. Very impressive. Sade describes herself best in 5 words as "Honest, carefree, anti-clone, unisexual and evolving."

The whole collection was in black, the detailed use of textures and fabrics made the collection sing with nylon, polyester and PVC. The models walked slowly, almost in a tranquil state with strong eye catching make-up and slick hair, and the music was enchanting, drawing you in to their gothic look and what seemed like uneasy sense of mind. They were putting on a show for us not just modelling, each wore heavily gothic platform shoes that really drew you in. Though it was nice to see at the end of the show all the models walked barefoot, for me this was much more enchanting, it meant I was drawn in to the latex design and could really see the true essence of Sade English's excellent design techniques. The show flowed very well together, and although there was not much variety in outfits and shapes, every look had its own Sade Stamp on it. 

This was a good beginning and first show. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOYk1sQH3C8 

Above Sade English herself, looking rather pleased with her well received collection and reflecting her own style.