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DAZED & CONFUSED: THE HERIOT WATT EDITION When planning this issue we wanted to focus on the positives of life in Galashiels. We realise that it is often given a negative stigma for being such a small town, especially from university students who move here from big cities, but like anywhere else it is what you make it. With a bit of research we noticed that Galasheils's sporting heritage, recent and current achievements have been given little credit in the past compared to the milling industry here, this tied in fabulously with the strong, up and coming Sports Luxe trend which basically describes Galasheils in a nutshell, fashion and sport combined. A successful rugby team was formed here in 1876, which attracts most sporting (and female) attention! Although the number of females attending Herriot Watt is much greater than the males attending, it is definitely made up for in sportsmen from the rugby team and the Borders Sports College. Another key part of life for many of the students attending University here is the Tri Fitness gym, where you can fight off stress in a boxercise class or run from the piles of uni work awaiting. This issue will look into designers who's spring/summer collections feature sports luxe and different collaborations you can find at all ends of the market.Also in this issue we will meet current and past students who can offer their help, advice and experiences, share their best (or most embarrassing) 'Gala' stories and their opinions on the sporting culture here.
CONTRIBUTORS
NADIA MCVEY VICTORIA LEACH Seventeen and the child of the group, I ANYA MCCLOSKEY is the name I go by and I'm currently EMILY moved to Galashiels Born in 1995, from studying Fashion at Heriot Watt. MACPHERSON to study Fashion Kilmarnock and studyI originally left Liverpool to come Don't let the Communications at ing Fashion Retailing study up in Scotland and I'm almost peaceful hills Heriot-Watt Univerand Marketing. I have leaving my teenage and quiet winds sity. I contributed years as I turn 20 deceive you. as a Feature Writer arrived at Herriot Watt University straight this year!! Before Galashiels is the and Photographer. from secondary school coming to university place you want For my feature, I which has been a I finished my GCSE's to be if you are a suffered through trying to stomach a fabulous change. As the in High School at student with a creative mind… and maybe a mouthful of baby food and survive on editor of the magazine, the age of 16 then little crazy. My name is Emily Macpherson, liquids alone for hours on end before as well as hair and make-up stylist and moved onto College I'm studying Fashion Communication and I deciding, fuck it, this shouldn't be what writing an interview, I have had a busy where I then started am a feature writer(page 16) and photogstudent life should be about! Since few weeks. The hardest part in complestudying fashion into more depth. My rapher for our Energy Issue of Dazed. I'm then I've been living on a steady diet tion of this magazine however, was not main role within Dazed is the styling, also that one who has a bowl of coco pops of orange Lucozade and managing organising, writing or styling but avoiding I have put together all the outfits and a Kopparberg for my dinner. I once did just fine. It's a lifestyle that tends to chatting about last nights tele with the so that they are all ready for when attempt to cook some form of meat… Let's make you nocturnal but I can assure other contributors!! I have really enjoyed the photographers need them on just say the bathrooms in the Jean Muir you that except from a few complaints the making of this magazine particularly shoot. Also I have helped out within halls are very strategically placed (thank from your sleep deprived neighbours because its based on a trend I am currently the makeup as it is based with the god). But coco pops are fine with me, just after one night too many spent blastobsessed with! styling. means I have an excuse to go to the gym ing Arctic Monkeys at 3am that it's a and watch muscly men lifting weights… lifestyle that one can get comfortable Who'd have ever thought that of all places, with pretty quickly. Galashiels would be the one to bring the ABBIE KEENAN AMY JOHNSTON even crazier crazy out of me? With being a fashion communication student, I have Having survived being finally felt within my element while working on this an underage fresher for magazine. The rush and constant brainstorming of months I've just turned 18 REBECCA LUCEY communication is what I love; forever working with and I am halfway through Sorry have to break the ice I'm not the such content & passion. Within this my first year of Fashion best writer. Which is why i was on admagazine, the photography & the interWomenswear, For this vert duty. My name is views (page 12,16)has been my duties. issue I created the graphRebecca Lucey and People are often surprised when they ics and layout. I researched I'm studying Fashion discover I never studied art at school into many of the past issues of Dazed to Womenswear because I'm doing a fashion course; the help me; the problem is it's not exactly conso doing fashion complace you would always find me was in sistent. It's currently 4am and I'm quite honmunication and this the graphics rooms making up my own estly winging it. I volunteered to do this role magazine have been a mock magazines, experimenting with as 'I can do photoshop' - overstatement of bit out of my comfort typography & abusing the free internet. the year but none of us have spots in these zone but a great learnWho would have known Abbie Keenan, the city girl pictures do we? I also assisted with a couple ing experience. from Glasgow would enjoy the Scottish Borders so of the photoshoots and succesfully managed damn much? Not me, but I can assure you Galashiels 4 hours of the moon diet. (page 24) can be just as fucking mental.
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WORK BITCH. photography Emily Macpherson styling Victoria Leach
this page: oversized tee with graphic print TOPSHOP; black runner shorts: NIKE; colour block strappy heels: RI
this page: co-ordinate set MISSGUIDED trainers NIKE ID
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photography Abbie Keenan artwork Amy Johnston & Ciara Cohen
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this page: racer front neon crop top BANK; graphic print skirt & Digitally printed bomber both H&M
& confused 10 by H&M; aztec shorts TOPSHOP opposite page: sports bra ADIDAS; dazed floral bomber conscious
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photography Abbie Keenan artwork Amy&Johnston & Ciara dazed confused 13 Cohen
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ABBIE KEENAN selects HANNAH BENSON Graduate of HW-SBC: Hannah Benson left uni June 2013 with plans to conquer the crazy world of London. Little did she know she would be working 10 minutes from home in a boutique where she is getting to design her own collection. We chat student drinks, deadlines and diets!
"I really have landed on my feet and couldn't have done it without Gala. You develop a thick skin definitely"
So tell us, why gala? "If I'm honest, at the end of 6th year I just had to get out of Glasgow, I couldn't have stayed there any longer. When looking at uni's I considered Glasgow Cali but when I went to look at the facilities it was not what I was wanting at all. When I walked in they only had a couple of sewing machines so I asked 'How many garments will we be making a year?' and they replied with one a year! When I went to my interview in Gala I knew straight away this is where I wanted to go. My cousin went there like 10 years before me and even then I loved it and knew this is what I want to do. If I went to Cali or another uni I definitely would not be the same person, Not even slightly. Everything I learned in Galashiels I use. At the boutique I'm editing the photos, I'm maintaining the website; I made the website! I'm putting it all into action. I really have landed on my feet and couldn't have done it without Gala. You develop a thick skin definitely." Your thoughts on fashion getting sporty? I like it. It's more casual. I did an internship down in London last year but it was couture work for Nicholas Oakwell. It's all beads! So, so beautiful. What was your ultimate student drink? Sambucca! That was always the worst. Or we would go into H20 and work our way down the cocktail list. The French martinis in there were awesome! What style would you erase if you could? Boho. I hate it. It's all the beads and hippy style, I just can't stand it! I mean I love beads but jewels!! I love everything to look really classy and tailored look. Student survival food? Noodles! My dad taught me how to cook Chinese food from scratch before I left for uni which was amazing! Wildest night out in gala? *giggles* started off we had a deadline and had been awake for 3 days. We decided to have a barbeque on the roof of our flat and had a party. There was no railing and we were all absolute wasted. After we went down into indigo rooms, absolute brilliant! I had to be taken home at quarter to 4 in the morning! Do you see a difference between a diet and a detox? I tried herbalife for a month before going on holiday and dropped a dress size but put it back on again! However from working at the leisure centre I've learned the only way is to eat healthy and train well. Diets and detoxes are both just quick fixes. There is no other way. From working at the gym do you find more people are coming to show off their clothes rather than a workout? Oh definitely. They'll come in with ÂŁ200 trainers on, a full face of makeup and their hair all done and leave the gym looking the exact same way. I have to question why even bother? It's not benefiting them they just go to
show off their clothes. Who is your ultimate fashion icon? Nicholas Oakwell. I worked hand in hand with him and absolutely fallen in love, like everything he does is totally unbelievable. I was working for Christopher Kane, I done that for about 3 weeks and hated. I realised that's not the situation I want to be in, people who are so high up and well known in the fashion world aren't always right. Benefits of Gala? There is nothing in Galashiels to do. Although that sounds like a negative it's not! You end up getting so close with all your uni friends because you're with them day in and day out. I was in sewing workshop from 8am – 9pm sdeveryday with all of them and we would have such a laugh! There was 12 girls in our halls and I'm still in touch with them every single day! You become so close. The facilities are like no other even CSM doesn't have as good equipment as us. CSM is only popular because it's in London. The history of Gala pushed me too, well you have all the mills and factories surrounding you. We have so many exports to designers like Chanel & Alexander McQueen and also the famous Harris Tweed. What was the plan once you left uni? 'I was supposed to be moving to London this week. As soon as I got home to Glasgow I had a full time job lined up for me at a boutique called Love FRMS & I was there first employee! I've been there since June 2013 since I graduated. I really did land on my feet. I'm working on my own collection & on another with my boss Ashley for the shop. Opportunities like this need to happen more in Scotland instead of the usual London, Milan, and Paris. A lot of people can't afford to move to London to find work. I know someone who won best Scottish designer, they moved to London to look for a fashion job and she's working as a waitress. It's not an easy thing to do. Personally I love the busyness of London, that's what it's like inside my head 24/7. It felt like it was at the same pace as me. TEXT ABBIE KEENAN PHOTOGRAPHY ABBIE KEENAN dazed & confused 15
photography & styling Abbie Keenan
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SPORTS LUXE IN GALASHEILS
We all saw this phenomenon from a mile off. As soon as the whispers of the 2012 Olympics in London began, we were all fixed, but little else is to be expected when it is Stella McCartney designing the sportswear for the British Olympic team – if ever anything was going to set a craze for Sports Luxe
that was it. And here we are, having just passed the Fashion Weeks for Spring/Summer 2014, I can safely say we are still head over plimsolls in love with the sporty look. Whether it be Rick Owens continuing to shock the fashion world by transforming his catwalk with troops of muscular women
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in jazz-shoe soled trainers, or your everyday Heriot Watt student wearing a pair of Adidas by Stella McCartney trainers they got for their Christmas to a local Pilate's class. The Sports Luxe trend has brought more than just clean cuts and lavish fabrics to the industry, it promotes a more fit and healthy look to the world. Walking in to the TriFtiness gym in Galashiels is almost like watching a Jeremy Scott for Adidas campaign; neon yellows; bright pinks; Nike Air Maxes and, of course, Lycra. The fashion students of the Heriot Watt Scottish Borders campus know exactly how to hide those painful expressions whilst on the treadmills. The answer? Blind anyone who comes in with the beauty of luxury sportswear… they'll only be interested in asking you where you shop. Don't get me wrong, you don't have to be at the gym or playing footie to be able to work the current trend - grab an LBD, throw on some bright trainers and a colourful bomber jacket and you're sorted for a night out… not to mention, styled to perfection. I, for one, definitely think my wardrobe is in need of this workout and where is a better place to be other than the Scottish Borders when you are looking for fashion, sport and luxury fabric. TEXT EMILY MACPHERSON PHOTOGRAPHY NADIA MCVEY dazed & confused 19
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ANYA MCCLOSKEY selects NIKKI REID Second year student: Current student Nikki Reid started Heriot Watt in September 2013, a direct entry into 2nd year. She gives an insight into uni life here and her opinions on everything from fashion, lectures and 'get-you-drunk-fast' drinks! So, what made you choose to study in Galashiels? I was in Aberdeen college doing a HND there, and I thought that Galashiels would be the best opportunity for me, with it's links to the industry. What course did you study in Aberdeen? I studied HND textiles for two years. Where are you from originally and what are the main differences living at home and living in Galasheils? I'm originally from Aberdeenshire but I lived in Aberdeen for two years where there was quite a lot going on I was working and going out constantly. Always on the go. But coming here the pace of your surrounding are a bit slower but you get used to it after a while. What course are you studying? I'm a direct entry student into second year for Fashion Technology What has been your favourite project so far? The textile lectures, it kinda just gives you a bit more information about the quality of clothes, and what fabrics will be used for. But I'm more interested in the 'Sciencey' side. So, whats your thoughts on fashion getting sporty? Some people can pull it off, but for me it's too casual, I like to keep the sporty style for the gym. What is your favourite sports collaboration? Well i suppose Stella McCartney is a given but Sweaty Betty have a good collection of gym wear. What's your thoughts on fad diets?Tried any? I am not one for dieting, its more of just a lifestyle choice, Healthy eating and if you see yourself putting on a bit of weight you just need to exercise more! What's your wildest night out in gala? Emm, the time jack dislocated his knee haha .. yeah that time! One minute he was grinding to Miley and the next I was calling an ambulance! Your favourite student drink? Probably tequila, It always tends to flow! Oh and of course I love a margarita. So you designed your own sports
"I thought that Galashiels would be the best opportunity for me, with it's links to the industry."
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wear collection? How did you find that? It was just an outfit that we designed, It was quite interesting to research and look into because its not something you'd usually go out your way to look at. I found it interesting working with different fabrics that are a little more difficult to handle. It was just kinda trying to look it it in a different way because sports clothes can tend not to be very nice. What is the plan for when you leave? Em, just to move out with the UK! Oh, where would you like to go if you left the UK? I''m quite keen on Amsterdam, well Amsterdam or Sweden. I've been looking at internships and there is a couple that are based there which I've just kind of been drawn too. TEXT ANYA MCCKLOSKEY PHOTOGRAPHY AMY JOHNSTON
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food scientific evidence that these apparent deep cleanses work. With so many questions surrounding the legitimacy of the detox, are they really worth becoming so emaciated that you can barely stand?
FITNESS IS THE NEW FAMISHED
The fact of the matter is that when it comes to the topic of energy, no amount of fasting will ever be a supplement for a balanced diet, a decent measure of sleep every night and staying as active as that hectic schedule of yours allows you to. It's a cliched formula but that is for a simple reason: it's the most effective and long lasting way of staying healthy.
It's no secret that the fashion world has always had a predilection for skinny women. Despite many public protests by groups such as Femen, using models that look like they could faint from starving themselves any second is not something that looks to change any time soon. As this image continues to be what women strive for, it is not surprising that we are constantly bombarded with 'healthy' ways to achieve a slim figure. As we all know, a change in eating habits is not easy. Surely we all must be familiar with the 'I'll start tomorrow' feeling. This is particularly the case with the new most popular style of dieting: detoxing.
It is more and more common for diets to have cleansing benefits rather than to advertise physical weight loss. This is usually done using some form of liquid-only regime in which you banish solid foods altogether. One recent example of a fad diet that builds immunity and sheds pounds whilst you're at it is the Moon Diet, also creatively known as 'The Werewolf Diet'. This entails timing your eating habits with the lunar cycle. For example, during the new moon nd the full moon there is a strict liquids only rule. About six to eight pints of water a day is recommended and consuming this vast amount of liquid flushes out more toxins than there are Fashion Week shows. dazed & confused 22
that Cara Delevingne walked in. Of course if you have a voracious appetite, cutting out food completely is quite a big ask. The interesting thing is, the more you look into such detoxes and the more you take away the fancy made up vocabulary and the so-called benefits, the more you realise that essentially the advice these fads are giving you is to starve yourself. The Cabbage Soup diet, the 5:2 diet, the Master Cleanse diet; all guaranteed 'quick fixes' and all just decorative names for starvation. It is understandable for a student to want to clean out the junk food and alcohol left behind in their systems from freshers week .however, there is no actual
But most importantly; no matter what your age is, how much food you can stomach in one sitting or what industry you choose to work in, don't allow the latest celebrity fads to chill you into malnutrition. The way to a healthy body is a healthy mind. And if that involves a slice of cake every so often then why the hell not. TEXT NADIA MCVEY PHOTOGRAPHY NADIA MCVEY dazed & confused 23
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