MAY 2012. - UCA Students` Union

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MAY 2012.
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“Censorship is the
enemy of creativity”
Allan Jenkins, poet
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Spring and... Cat Bin Lady (p34).
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feature about it starting on page 8.
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UCA Maidstone:
History in the making
As we reach the end of the 2011/12
academic year, the Maidstone campus
begins a period of transformation. The
final group of degree-level students
have finished their first year, and from
September only Foundation students will
be found at enrolment. Degree students
will be beginning their studies at other
campuses.
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Maidstone: History in the making
Maidstone: History in the making
In 2011, UCA announced that MidKent
College had made an offer to purchase
the Maidstone campus. This was
accepted, and 2014 will be the final year
of degree-level students graduating from
Maidstone.
Luke Frost
Maidstone Campus Officer
The campus started as The Maidstone
College of Art in 1867, changing its name
numerous times over the decades until
finally being upgraded to university status
when Surrey Institute of Art & Design
joined with Kent Institute of Art & Design
to form the University College for the
Creative Arts in 2005.
Emin, ‘Where’s Wally’ creator Martin
Handford, TV presenters Tony Hart and
Bob Holness, and Edd Gould, who made
the famous Eddsworld YouTube series.
As the gradual wind-down of UCA
presence on the campus progresses,
Students’ Union attention moves to
ensuring students aren’t negatively
Full university status was granted in 2008, impacted by the change.
allowing the institution to drop ‘College’
from its name.
The Maidstone campus boasts a rich and
notable history, which will be a sorry loss
The campus has been home to scores of to UCA. Whether the sale of Maidstone
students who have made an impact in the will benefit the university remains to be
world, including controversial artist Tracey seen.
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Current students aren’t the
first to have received that
news, but they’re the first
to have to deal with the
consequences.
There didn’t seem much we
could do after the MidKent
deal
was
announced.
Some considered going
into occupation, but the
will just wasn’t there.
Above:
Inside Tracey Emin’s famous ‘Everyone I
Have Ever Slept With’ tent. She described
the work as “seminal, fantastic, and
amazing.”
Maidstone: History in the making
Maidstone: History in the making
I remember hearing the
campus I’d applied to was
closing after I’d already
accepted my offer. That
was in 2008.
All we can do is stick
together. Even if we
don’t manage to build up
extracurricular stuff we’re
all still in the same boat,
we can make it good.
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How are they trying to censor us?
How are they trying to censor us?
How are they trying to censor us?
By Jayne Horswill
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nternet censorship has been causing
a lot of controversy lately. With online
tech developing quickly, it’s becoming
easier to download and share images,
video and data at incredible speeds.
How are they trying to censor us?
With that in mind, the internet has also
been proven vital in the progression
of creative artists, giving them an easy
way to share their work. Copyright law
is becoming a crucial way to protect this
content, but are the governments really
doing it in the interest of independent
This Bill suggested search engines be
projects?
prevented from linking to illegal torrenting
sites, and that court orders should be
One of the most popular forms of pirated
brought in to make Internet Service
content is from the film and television
Providers ban the sites altogether. It
industry. Major movie companies in
would also allow the FBI to raid your home
America have condemned the online
looking for stolen content, and if they
sharing of their content, copyright claiming
found it, the maximum prison sentence
the majority of videos on YouTube, and
would be for 5 years.
re-uploading their own copies covered
in adverts. The music industry is also
Yet more stuff I’m writing for no better
known for viciously protecting their
reason than to black out in the name of
artists, creating heavily sponsored online
censorship. You’d think it was fun, but it
channels.
really isn’t. No, not at all. Honestly!
As each of these industries is making an
average of $300,000,000 (Paramount
Pictures, 2011), they can afford to take
the most extreme measures possible to
protect their income and industry.
SOPA had a lot of opposition when it
came out; it was argued to be absolute
censorship of the internet, where the
government would be controlling what
you could and couldn’t look at. Most
major online sites protested against it,
In October 2011, US Representative Lamar
with an organized blackout of Reddit and
Smith introduced a Bill to censor the
Wikipedia on 18 January 2012.
internet on a very large scale – The Stop
Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short.
For the whole day, if you visited either
website you were redirected to the
This bill is basically a massive pile of shit,
Wikipedia entry for SOPA. Google,
but we’ll get on to that in a minute. Right
YouTube, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, eBay
now, I’m writing bollocks.
and more all refused to accept the Bill too,
making statements on their sites or their
CEOs coming out publically to refute it.
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I’m writing a big title here
to make it look li
Even the Human Rights Watch got
something important is
involved, as they considered it a
violation of freedom of information, and
being said. But no.
censorship of free speech. Petitions were
signed around the world to try to prevent
this becoming law, and on 20 January
2012 it went to Senate but the vote was
unbalanced, with more negative than
positive. It was agreed to be shelved until
a more suitable solution came along.
However, there was one major impacting
result: the shutdown of MegaVideo and
MegaUpload. These sites were used
in most part for streaming film and
television, and for sharing files. Most of
this was illegal content, but the Senate
did not consider an important thing: many
people were using the site for the original
intention, to store and share their own
original work. It was announced that they
were closing down, and users were given
less than a week to collect their data, and
the traffic on the site was so hectic during
those last days that many people lost their
personal data and files.
For the first Bill to counteract piracy, it
was widely agreed that SOPA had some
very extreme measures written into it,
giving the law a lot of power very quickly
over American citizens’ internet use. The
amount of resistance towards the bill
clearly shows that it was a very risky move
to make, and not entirely unexpected.
The SOPA Bill presents itself as a way
of protecting copyrighted work on the
internet. Rep. Lamar Smith named it
a ‘protection of intellectual copyright’
– although he didn’t specifically write
the Bill himself. It’s clear from who was
backing SOPA who actually wrote it.
internet. Rep. Lamar Smith named it
a ‘protection of intellectual copyright’
– although he didn’t specifically write
the Bill himself. It’s clear from who was
backing SOPA who actually wrote it.
On 22 September 2011, a letter was set
to Congress signed by 350 businesses
supporting the Bill. This included
NBCUniversal (who had an income of
$2.26 billion in 2010), the Motion Picture
Association of America, the Recording
Industry Association of the US, and the
Entertainment Software Association, as
well as big brands like L’Oreal and Nike.
It came from companies that earn huge
sums of money a year through copyright,
and fight constantly to prevent free
sharing.
SOPA is specific about the form of media
that is prevented. It states that ‘illegal
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How are they trying to censor us?
How are they trying to censor us?
‘Intellectual property’ is supposed to be
copyrighted work on any scale; from
the biggest movie companies to the
independent short film makers and bands
that publicise themselves locally. It was
claimed in the introductory speech to the
Senate that SOPA would be used to help
everyone, but it never turned out that way.
‘Intellectual
property’
is
supposed
to be copyrighted work on any
scale;
from
the
biggest
movie
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independent short film makers and bands
thacise themselves locally. It
Even Rep. Lamar Smith, the politician
who introduced the Bill actually had an
illegal picture on his own website. It was
being used as the background display
on the site, but was actually stolen from
photographer DJ Schulte, and was not
credited back to him.
Even the Senator bringing the bill to US
Congress doesn’t even understand how it
works, as he was in violation of it himself.
American media bosses have a great deal
of influence in the industry and a lot of
money to defend their huge incomes.
There has been a lot of speculation
of corruption in the US Government
following this, and if money isn’t changing
hands among the Senators, then the laws
really are being written in the capitalist
interest.
What has been happening in the UK?
On 30 April this year, the UK High Court
ruled that all internet providers should
ban access to the website The Pirate Bay.
How are they trying to censor us?
The Pirate Bay is famous for hosting
torrent files, which allow users to
download anything from movies and
software to games and music. It is not by
any means the only torrent site online, but
it is the most popular and well-known in
the media.
All Internet Service Providers except for
BT accepted the ruling. BT took ‘time to
think about it’, but on May 2, Virgin Media
was the first to block the site.
The issues with this are that a creative
artist, independent from the motion picture
industries is not remotely protected by the
court’s ruling.
It is a blanket ban on a site that only
damages the profits of major companies,
and doesn’t help those who are put out of
business by theft of copyrighted work.
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Hear it from
an internet pioneer
It’s also a very general ban: technology
these days allows IP addresses to be easily
traceable, and most illegal downloaders
don’t make any extra effort to hide their
tracks when they torrent. The government
has the resources to stop illegal sharing
and copyright violation very efficiently,
but has instead targeted the most popular
site first, as it is the one most harmful to
the industry.
Having followed in the footsteps of the
US, British law has now been written
that actively censors the internet for UK
citizens. The fact that the ban is easy to get
round isn’t the issue; it’s that the state has
chosen to control what you can access,
rather than actually enforcing copyright
law.
This could only be the tip of the iceberg for
the UK – with MegaVideo and MegaUpload
gone, as well as popular torrenting site
MiniNova that was targeted in 2009 and
The Pirate Bay blocked, it’s worth keeping
an eye on the law to see what comes next.
The laws have been put together
to allow an industry body to ask the
government to turn off a web site and the
government can make people turn off the
site without trial.
There are times when that could be very
powerful and damaging, like before an
election, and it is crossing a line and we
have to protect the internet as an open
space, we have to respect it.
Folks in the UK should not be complacent.
There are plenty of laws they should look
out for already that also have issues.
These acts have not been put together
to respect human rights as is right for a
democratic country.
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the Internet
How are they trying to censor us?
streaming’ in particular would be heavily
punishable by law, along with torrented
streaming. It is perfectly catered to protect
the major money-earning companies that
are in control of the market already. SOPA
is a censorship bill to protect the rich.
Quote source: The Inquirer
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MOST PIRATED MATERIAL:
Business reaction to SOPA
The biggest names in the media industry came forward to show either their support
or protests against SOPA and what it represented for piracy law. Some companies
switched sides when they saw the public’s reaction, but it’s clear to see which type of
industry favoured it.
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FILMS
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GAMES SOFTWARE MUSIC
35.8% 33.2% 14.7% 6.7% 6.7% 2.9%
KICK
STARTER
FOR SOPA
“The Pirate Bay is like sugar – it's bad for you
but you can't stop using it.
Bad because you get sued for it"
Peter Sunde - Co-Founder of The Pirate Bay
Protect your work online
COMPUTER
ENTERTAINMENT
Paramount
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American
Bankers
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Industry heavyweights
All of the companies below supported SOPA, except Pixar. They had a dispute with their
owners, Disney, as they didn’t want to support the Bill at all. In the end they came to a
shaky deal whereby they were not allowed to comment.
With profits like these, it’s not a surprise they wanted to keep the money rolling in…
The British intellectual Property Office have issued some good advice on how to protect
your work from theft. It doesn’t look like the laws either in the US or the UK have
any real interest in the independent artist, rather for the big businesses who own the
market. Here are some steps everyone should take to make sure they don’t become
victims of those with no respect for the work.
Mark your work: This could be a watermark, a copyrighted message at the
bottom with the © and your name, or even the date and your signature at the
bottom of the piece.
Keep the original copy if you can: Photos and videos on the computer will
should have a timestamp of when they were last edited and when they were
taken. Keep this raw footage on a memory card or stick somewhere to preserve
the original dates.
How are they trying to censor us?
Hold on to supporting evidence: The idea process, first attempts, notes,
anything that could back up your case.
Make it official: If you co-authored the work with someone else, make sure to
come to an agreement about who owns the copyright – or even if it’s shared and try and sign on it, if you can.
Control your website: When you run the site, you know the terms. If you host it
somewhere else, check their copyright system. Some sites have it in the terms
of use that once you upload to them, they own the media.
Disable right-click: Protecting your own website can stop people in their tracks
from copying your work, or saving it to their hard drives.
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How are they trying to censor us?
AGAINST SOPA
FOR SOPA... UNTIL SEEING
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TO CHANGE.
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Farnham
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3D Design Metalwork & Jewellery
Farnham
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A social life
Getting your name out to the public make important work contacts or even get
couldn’t be any easier.
jobs.
That’s why Glue has taken a look at the
your social networking options and rated
them to show the most effective as we
mould our futures.
As young creatives, we appreciate how Now you can sit on Facebook or Twitter
difficult it can be to get noticed and to with a valid excuse!
Aspiring bloggers are spoilt for choice when it comes
to picking a website. There are numerous platforms to
start blogging with, that put you in a position where
you can share your creativity while networking and
socialising.
Content development and production
graduate Niall Highgate (Ravensbourne
University) is an active Twitter user. He said:
“A lot of people in the industry use Twitter,
so it’s a good way of scouting people and it’s
easy to contact people.
Tumblr has developed high traffic in a short time.
In February, Tumblr had over 46.2 million blogs and
more than 18 billion total posts. That’s a major online
showcase.
“I’ve secured interest in work via Twitter, and
I’ve even had some well-known actors ask to
be in my films through it.”
It’s easy to use: all the features are based in the
‘Dashboard’ and everything is at a mouse click. Like
Twitter, you can share things you love by re-blogging.
Tumblr maintains a great social networking aspect.
First year Photography student Matt Fox is in favour:
“I opened my Tumblr account a few months ago. I
already had Flickr but wanted to blog videos and gifs. I
chose Tumblr because I knew it had a good reputation
and put my work on it.”
Matt says that it is easy to use, being able to reblog
has promoted his work on the web.
Visit Matt’s Tumblr here:
http://matt-fox-photography.tumblr.com/
A social life
Micro-blogging platform Twitter allows you
to connect with anyone in 140 characters or
less. The one-click ‘follow’ button means you
will see other people’s tweets on your feed
and from that you have the option to retweet
and reply.
Score: Creative
Social
Niall uses Twitter to talk to industry
professionals by tweeting questions and
asking advice. He said: “It’s not what you
know it’s who you know.”
The main downside to Twitter is trying to pitch
yourself accurately and professionally in 140
characters (and using the correct spelling and
punctuation!).
Niall’s advice to budding Twitter users is:
“Try and sell yourself as best you can in your
biography. Make it humorous and make it
attractive. And try not to swear too much.”
Visit Niall on Twitter @Niallhighgate and view the
TV show he wrote and directed (and released via
Twitter) @thatwilbour.
Score: Creative
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A social life
It takes one click to connect with someone
over the internet, be it on social networking
giants Facebook or Twitter. You can even
make professional contacts through them.
Social
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Glue
Facebook has over 901 million monthly
active users as of March 2012.
Second year 3DD Metalwork student
Anthony Doble uses a Facebook page to
publicise his work. He said: “The great
thing about having Facebook is having
an instant link for friends to keep updated
and is also available to the public. So
hopefully, friends of friends will see my
work and commission me.”
“The more successful pages I have
seen tend to use Facebook as a means
of blogging, posting about latest
experiments and promoting other
craftspeople. Facebook isn’t the best tool
for the business side of any artist practice
as in some ways it is more of a social site
for transferring interesting information;
not business deals,” he said.
The downside to using a site like
Facebook for professional use is the
implications from your personal account.
Anthony is becoming increasingly careful
about his posting in case it damages his
professional reputation.
Anthony said: “It is useful, but I suggest
setting up a professional website.
Facebook is good for promoting yourself
as it gives you a better chance of gaining
job opportunities.”
A social life
To view Anthony’s work visit facebook.com/
AnthonyDobleArtistBlacksmith or wix.com/
dobleanthony/artistblacksmith.
Score: Creative
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Kickstarter is a funding website for creative projects.
It was only launched in 2008 but has already helped
struggling artists and inventors alike realise their ideas.
Working on a crowd-funded system, Kickstarter gives
you the opportunity to present your idea to the internet,
almost like a pitch in Dragon’s Den. From there, anyone
interested in helping you get going can make a donation
– anywhere from $1 upwards.
There have been several success stories over the
years, but the biggest was “Save Like Blue Jazz”. It was
a film adaptation of a book that ran out of money midproduction, unable to make it to the big screen.
It was proposed by Steve Taylor, who had the dream of
creating the film for a while. They raised over $345,000
for the film, and it was successfully screened in 2012.
Taylor was astonished at the response: “I really didn’t
think it would work. I knew we had some dedicated fans
of the book that were keen to see it cinematically but the
response was overwhelming.”
Kickstarter allows you to use incentives to get more
donations. In the case of Save Like Blue Jazz, a donation
would get you goodies like posters, script pages and
photo prints of the productions. Other projects have
branched out to shares in the company, or even a copy of
the finished product.
Steve Taylor in fact made the effort to call each and every
donator personally to thank them. “You can’t message
them directly on the site,” he said. “It’s not really a place
for social networking aside from your basic profile. But
it’s worth going through them all as if it weren’t for them,
Like Blue Jazz would never have happened.
Score: Creative
Social
A social life
The set up allows you to quickly make
a profile, which can include photos and
interests. You can update your activities
to let your friends know exactly what
you’re up to. It is the ultimate social tool.
Social
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RedBubble allows artists to create an online
portfolio and sell work in the form of standard
prints and cards or even as t-shirts and stickers.
Formed in 2005 by three former PayPal employees,
YouTube became the fastest-growing website ever and
is now ranked fifth most popular by Alexa Internet.
YouTube is easy to access, and with an account you can
upload videos and share it with the world. The word
“viral” was practically invented by YouTube.
Third year Film Production student Matt Vahey has
never been a fan of YouTube. Unlike Vimeo, where you
can only upload user made content, anyone can upload
anything to YouTube.
“In my first year we were told about YouTube and their
rights when uploading content, I don’t use it because I
don’t think it’s very professional. It doesn’t benefit my
work; showcasing is difficult.
“Videos often get lost among other content, as it is
competitive platform. Although quick and easy to
upload, it isn’t industry standard. To get recognised,
uploading to YouTube isn’t a good move.
The benefit you can gain from YouTube is the volume
of views, but be wary that it doesn’t get lost amongst
videos of cats playing the keyboard.”
Score: Creative
Social
Second year Fasion Illustration student at UAL
Maisie Noble uses RedBubble to promote her
illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs.
She sells them through the website to those
ordering prints and cards.
Maisie has been approached for commissions and
requests for publication. She said: “It’s a very clear
and easy website to use, and a brilliant way to chat
with other artists. It really increased my confidence
as other users tend to be complimentary and
supportive.”
There is a clear layer over Maisie’s work advertised
on the site, so it cannot be right-clicked and saved
or reproduced without her permission.
“The website is a little bit socially outdated,” Maisie
said. “It’s not seen as cool or trendy by the younger
generation.”
I would say that young professionals and students
should also use other platforms such as Tumblr,
Flickr and Twitter,” she concluded.
View Maisie’s work at redbubble.com/people/
maisienoble or at maisienoble.tumblr.com.
Score: Creative
Social
Vimeo offers a video solution that protects your rights
and is much more respected in industry.
Score: Creative
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A social life
A social life
Matt Vahey’s trailer for Pantheon is here:
vimeo.com/m/41887972
Social
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D&AD glory
By Faye Gentile
Features Editor
even UCA students have been
recognised by the esteemed Design
and Art Direction (D&AD) Student
Awards. Six of the projects received ‘Best
of Year’ Accolades.
The industry-respected award has been
given to creators of celebrated work since
1962. The award status is regarded as a
benchmark for creatives around the world.
Adam Alexander and Scott Wooden,
Graphic Design: New Media at UCA
Epsom have been nominated for the
prestigious Yellow Pencil Award.
“Receiving a nomination for a D&AD
award has been a dream come true.
It has given me so much more
confidence in my work and
motivation to aim towards
higher things in the future to
come,” said Adam.
Five other Graphic Design: New Media
students Chris Brown, John St. Leger,
Jamie Hoy, Seth De Silva and Povilas
Uogintas received Best of Year nods,
just a step down from a Yellow Pencil
nomination. “D&AD Student Award truly
marks you out as one of the best,” says
course leader Ben Stopher.
UCA Farnham also received their share
of recognition from D&AD; five students
won the Best of Year award. Graphic
Communication students Ash Jordan
(Packaging Design), David Davies
and Oliver Williams (Typography)
were the lucky three alongside
Advertising
&
Brand
Communication students
Charlotte
Hugh
and
Danny Pallett (Make
Your Mark).
D&AD glory
D&AD glory
“Our brief was to bring
the workstation to life,
so we took this literally and brought our
video to life with puppets which gave it an
important element of humour and made
it original.”
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UCA’s Chi Mun Wong
to carry Olympic torch
By Samantha Wilkins
Rochester Campus Editor
Chi Mun Wong, 19, studies Fashion
Promotion in Rochester. She has been
selected as a torchbearer: she will run 300
metres with the Olympic torch through
Rochester on the 20th of July this year.
Chi was nominated by her mother for
the help she gave her terminally ill
grandmother when she was 13, and for
the way she dealt with her own cancer
when she was 16.
“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,
I’ll never get the chance to run with the
torch again. It feels great to be picked, it
means my story has been recognised.
I like the idea that other people going
through bad illnesses can read my story
and relate.
Getting cancer made me appreciate that
you never know what’s going to happen,
and you should go through life doing
what you want instead of hesitating.
UCA student to carry Olympic torch
I didn’t expect to get ill; I found a lump,
and the next thing I knew I had cancer.
It’s clichéd when people say you only
live once, but it’s true: you can’t go
through life passive, if you want to
do something then go for it. Think
positively and always have your
family and friends around you.
Alternative Fashion Week
By Samantha Wilkins, Rochester Campus Editor
& Annabel Girauld-Telme
Alternative Fashion week is an annual
platform that allows emerging designers
to showcase their work to the public and
members of the fashion industry. The
event took place between 16th-21st April,
showcasing over eighty designers’ work
alongside ten colleges.
Students from the Foundation, Access
and BTEC courses at UCA Rochester were
lucky enough to showcase their work this
year.
Annabel Giraud-Telme is one of the
talented students that showcased her
work; she is a fashion enthusiast who
devotes a vast amount of time to her
creations, and is progressing on to study
Fashion Atelier at UCA Rochester in
September.
“The theme that was given for the AFW
project was ‘Multiples in Nature’. The idea
was to explore the themes of identity,
multiples, connections and personal
narratives with an emphasis placed on a
choice of surface, structure or silhouette.
We all had to work very hard. It was a
great experience though as the class
really pulled together. Knowing that we
were going to watch our work walk down
a runway inspired us to keep going.
“My design is named ‘La Fleur Chinoise’
which I based a Chinese lantern fruit. I
focused on the leaves due to their beautiful
delicacy and gorgeous colours.
The top of my garment is yellow gold
satin and has a double cowl neck with the
front being a smaller drop and the back
being a lot more ornate and dramatic.
The cummerbund pulls the top and skirt
together and has five ‘leaves’ coming out
of it from both sides of the body.
“To create the leaves I experimented and
manipulated samples to see how they sit
away from the body in order to create the
structure I desired.
I designed the leaves uniquely; they have
been boned in two different ways to mirror
the twists of a leaf and to also enable the
garment to be more wearable.
The most time-consuming part of my
design was hand-sewing more than 100
glass beads on each leaf.
“Alternative Fashion Week was an amazing
experience, I am very grateful to have had
the opportunity to showcase my work!”
For more information on Alternate Fashion
Week visit alternativefashionweek.co.uk
Alternative Fashion Week
I’ve always had an eye for fashion,
but I never thought I could do it as
a career until my GCSE’s, that was
when I realised what I wanted.
I am a bit nervous about
representing UCA; it’s a big
responsibility but I’m looking
forward to it.”
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