Ask any dressmaker and they’ll possible let you know how their closing graduate presentation entailed a fast-paced, high-energy runway of types. Clothes are usually marched previous friends and trade representatives, like a conveyor belt of recent expertise and innovation; it may be rather a lot to soak up. Along with SketchSesh – London’s avant-garde life drawing group – Trend graduates at Middlesex College have performed one thing just a little totally different this yr.
Hosted at East London’s legendary queer cabaret bar, The Glory, final month’s graduate showcase invited a keen viewers to draw its pupil collections. Modelled by an eclectic mixture of London creatives akin to DJ Princess Julia, drag performers Sharon LeGrand and Jonbers, and photographed by Roxy Lee, this was a “pub lock in meets trend studio,” Joe Turvey, programme chief of BA Trend Design, says.
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