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Dear Reader, A very warm welcome to our third issue of NIL magazine, a celebration of third year BA (Hons) Fashion students work, showcasing mens, womens, and childrenswear, from our ‘Design’ graduates, and publication, film, styling, app design and new media concepts from our ‘Image and Communication’ graduates. NIL this year has been developed by second year Image and Communication students, working collaboratively with final year graduates to promote the individual handwriting and diverse design philosophies behind each body of work. Building on our GFW award successes last year in Publication, Catwalk to High Street, Sophie Hallett and Portfolio, our current 2017 students are following closely in their footsteps, and are already award winners and finalists in 2017 competitions: FAD (see FAD article) Diversity Now, Sophie Hallett Paris, TU Clothing, and numerous others pending. Enjoy your copy of NIL 2017, Best, Iain Archer Course Leader BA (Hons) Fashion
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Sophie Whatling FAD X Missoni Competition 2017
“I chose to look at artists that explored mental health such as Jean Dubuffet and Willem de Kooning.” She explains, “I am always fascinated by art and feel it influences my work a lot. My collection explores mental health and how this relates to masculinity. I try to raise important issues in my work.”
Being a fashion student is one hard gig. It consists of slogging away on an ever jittering Juki machine, numerous failed attempts at pattern drafting, and the daily struggle of drowning in metres of fabric you’ve spent the majority of your student loan on. Any fashion student would be ecstatic to see all this hard work pay off and be named a winner of Missoni’s FAD competition. Sophie Whatling sure is! The prestigious FAD X Missoni Competition 2017 filtered 20 fashion students down to just three winners, with Whatling scooping runner up and bagging herself a £500 prize along with an overseas job offer after graduation at Missoni. Her menswear collection inspired by European artists swept the judges away. “I chose to look at artists that explored mental health such as Jean Dubuffet and Willem de Kooning.” She explains, “I am always fascinated by art and feel it influences my work a lot. My collection explores mental health and how this relates to masculinity. I try to raise important issues in my work.” Her garments that walked the runway featured two menswear pieces, a knitted long length tunic and a frayed denim long length coat. The tunic, with abstract shapes, resembled the work of Herman Rorschach and his work with the inkblot test, “a theory used by psychologists to test a person’s personality.” In which the person is shown a series of inkblot images, they are then asked to select the appropriate responses, where the responses are then scored. The test is often used to diagnose underlying thought disorders. The frayed denim in her menswear contains “embroidery, heavy stitching and patchwork representing repair and healing.” Sophie continues, “The use of multiple faces and line drawings of men show how mental health can effect a wide variety of men. The coat is made from several different types of denim with knit ribs and cuffs.” I wondered why Sophie thought it was important to raise such issues, “I think as fashion is such a visual art form, what people wear and tells the world a lot about them. The fashion industry has become quite corrupt recently,” she explains, citing the advertisement of unrealistic body standards, environmental damage along with lack of workers’ rights. She continues; “So I think it’s up to students to highlight these issues and begin to make a change.” I was curious as to what first sparked her initial interest into the fashion industry. “My interest in music first got me into in fashion. I liked punk music as a teenager and became fascinated with what the bands wore - this got me into Vivienne Westwood and it all started from there.”
Sophie’s hard work and determination has paid off, she says. “As stressful as the degree is, the reward of seeing your work down the runway overrides it all!” But for committed students she advises to “Fall in love with your concept, it’s something you will be working on for the entirety of third year! Also work hard and stay happy! Balance work and time with friends and family, otherwise you’ll go mad!” And if that doesn’t work she advises, “Lots of cups of tea!” Sophie will move to Varese, Italy in July to start working as a junior menswear designer with Missoni as a direct result of the FAD X Missoni Competition
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Rosie Dalton
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RNLI AUB Fashion Students Collaborate with the RNLI Upcycling Life Jackets into Accessories Second and third year BA (Hons) Fashion students were recently offered an exciting opportunity to work with the RNLI, giving a second life to the jackets that had once saved lives. Course Leader, Iain Archer, explained: “Life jackets are really expensive to dispose of, and the RNLI were looking at ways to recycle them. They approached the University to see if there was any scope to support the idea.” The students were tasked with designing and making accessories from the original life jackets, as part of a competition, that will be sold to raise funds for the RNLI. Each garment was upcycled, keeping the provenance tag, which was often made into a feature of the final product, maintaining the unique purpose that it had served in its previous life. The students made a range of accessories, from large holdalls, to children’s rucksacks and smaller scale leather bags. The students visited the RNLI base in Poole, which houses an amazing archive, to study the items and gain a deeper understanding of the designs. After the students had completed their prototypes, they traveled to the factory in Wolverhampton that helped with the manufacturing process; here the students assisted with taking the original test pieces and putting them into production patterns. One of the Third Year students who took part, Dan Rynne, told us: “I wanted to mix it up and hit a different demographic, a lot of my research was brighter and more colourful. I came up with the idea of fashion to preserve life. I took this element and my tag line was this bag saves lives". Third Year student, Lois Bosatta, was interested in connecting heritage and culture, and adding emotive content to her design. She said: “I wanted to include lots of the original features that kids would love to interact with, such as toggles and pull tags, reflective strips and a whistle, from the jackets that children could play with”.
Third year student, Marko Kis, took his inspiration from cycling. An experienced cyclist with a previous cycling career in Budapest, he ensured his cycle bag was both comfortable and streamline. Marko made his bag completely from one life jacket, including as many of the original features he could from it. He said: “I had never done accessories before, so it was amazing to make a bag for the first time.” Two students also created designs inspired by items they had seen in the archive, creating digital prints that were made into silk scarves. The RNLI particularly liked the idea of gift product – items that could be sold in the gift shop and online. Conversations have also taken place with department stores who are interested in stocking such products. An exhibition displaying the students work was held in April at the RNLI Museum in Poole that was judged by AUB Governors. The winning student will be offered a two year paid apprenticeship at the RNLI to work in their marketing department, a fantastic opportunity for any student looking to begin a career in the charity sector. Interested in seeing the students’ work? The collection will be exhibited in the Summer Shows; a celebration of our graduates’ innovative final work, held on campus between 9-17 June. The Private View is held on the evening of the 8th June from 6pm, everyone is welcome! The work is maintained in the RNLI Poole Lifeboat Station Museum archive.
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Ellie Armstrong EJLeeves@gmail.com
Julie Martin julieam10@yahoo.co.uk
Kelly Attenberger kellyattenberger@gmail.com
Jennifer Neupauer Neupauer@hotmail.co.uk
Poppy Johnson-Aubert poppyjohnson.aubert@icloud.com
Chloe Patten chloepatts@icloud.com
Kerryanne Cervan kerrycervan@hotmail.com
Natnicha Sawannoi natnichasawannoi@gmail.com
Jess Chen missjessica@hotmail.com.tw
Kaleigh Sheckleford kaleighshechleford@outlook.com
Sophia Church sophiachurch@rocketmail.com
Imani Springer Imani1996@hotmail.com
Jade Crouch Jadecrouch@googlemail.com
Bethan Taylor bethantaylor@hotmail.co.uk
Lucinda Crowhurst lucindacrowhurst@hotmail.com
Ellie Vickery ellievickery@yahoo.co.uk
Maisy Dodd maisydodd@hotmail.com
Hannah West hannahwest96@hotmail.com
Lauren Doody laurendoody2006@hotmail.com
Nan Zheng zhengnan@yeah.net
Abigail Fielding abbie.fielding96@hotmail.co.uk Emma Hance emmahance1@gmail.com Shaowei Hu shaoweihu2016@163.com Zaida Hussein Zaida.hussein@hotmail.com Charlotte Iles charlotte_iles@btinternet.com Eve Leefe Griffiths eveleefegriffiths@hotmail.co.uk Jingboa Li 15566807702@163.com Eyrun Muller eyrun@allsidige.com
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Emily Butcher emilybutcher315@hotmail.com
Lois Bosatta loisbosatta@gmail.com
Ruby Baldry ruby20baldry@hotmail.co.uk
Joe Flanagan joe_flanagan@hotmail.co.uk
Cristina Fregapane cristinafregapane@gmail.com
Katelin Bluett kaytbluett@yahoo.co.uk
Amanda Gondo amandagondo@yahoo.co.uk
Jasmine Virdee jnvirdee@gmail.com
Rosie Dalton rosie-dalton@outlook.com
Savannah Hall hallsorg@msn.com
Lottie Emerson charlotteemerson22@gmail.com
Hamza Hussein hamza_h2@hotmail.co.uk
Elissa Flynn elissaflynn@outlook.com
Georgia Louca georgia_louca@hotmail.co.uk
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Kiera Hall keirahall96@gmail.com
Kristian Ostvik Kristian.ny.ostvik@gmai.com
Yu Lin Fu yulin.fu@outlook.com
Chloe Hannah chloe.hannah@hotmail.co.uk
Vickie Parry vickie.parry@hotmail.co.uk
Marko Kis marko.kis95@gmail.com
Danni Hargreaves
Abigail Reeves abigail.reeves@gmail.com
Ericka Santiago erickailah96@googlemail.com
Dan Rynne danrynne@gmail.com
Nicole Thomas nicole_180455@hotmail.com
Sophie Whatling sofaw@live.co.uk Alix Whitehead alixw@live.co.uk
Frances Hooker franceshooker@outlook.com Elsie Lau elsielau1@hotmail.com Nyarie Mafunga nyarie.m@hotmail.com Roxanne McAdam roxanne.mcadam@gmail.com Matthew Morraies matthew.morraies@hotmail.co.uk Kerrie Reeves keirahall96@gmail.com Millie Simmons Wright msimmonswright@gmail..com Ella Slais Karley Thompson karleythompson@hotmail.co.uk Emily Pye emilypye@live.com Ingrid Wright ingridwright@outlook.com
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A big thank you to all our contributors ... Graduate Collections Photography Harry Cooke BA (Hons) Commercial Photography http://www.harrycooke.co.uk/ Hair and Make-up Tilly Jones BA (Hons) Make-up Imani Naghten BA (Hons) Make-up Selina Rana BA (Hons) Make-up Models Laura D’Agnelli Charlie Gosling Samuel Hardy Holly Holston Imani Naghten Mia Haynes Tino Sanka Gwashavanhu Brooke Tobie
Design & Art Direction Emily Hodson Alice Hollingsworth Jessica Leech Esme Silvester BA (Hons) Fashion Image and Communication
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Study Fashion at Arts University Bournemouth The BA(Hons) Fashion course recognises the uniqueness of the individual and celebrates the sublime art of making and creative risk taking. Through the journey of the course individuals will experience challenges and new possibilities whilst seeking unpredictable solutions to concept origination and product development. A guiding principle is to initially develop key skillsets which will underpin and inform a students personal design philosophy and a chosen area of specialism. Following this, individuals will be encouraged to make conscientious choices that question existing practices whilst embracing the importance of being confident and creatively diverse. The course will deliver a challenging curriculum that embeds theory with practice and is rooted in professional contexts. It challenges and should exceed the educational expectations of AUB’s students and crystallise their industry relevance when progressing to alumni. The new BA(Hons) Fashion course, with four optional Award Titles, will encourage creative diversity through the energetic delivery of a challenging curriculum that has global and sustainable currency. Graduates will have the ability to assess, question, dream, conceptualise translate and deliver for a breadth of challenges and opportunities offered by the global creative industries.
BA (Hons) Fashion (Design) BA (Hons) Fashion (Design Technology)
 BA (Hons) Fashion (Product) BA (Hons) Fashion (Image & Communication) * * NEW BA (Hons) Fashion Communication course starting in September 2017
For more information on studying at AUB please visit www.aub.ac.uk or contact admissions on +44 1202 363228 / hello@aub.ac.uk Arts University Bournemouth Wallisdown Poole Dorset BH12 5HH
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