Photo: Courtesy of Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins’ graduate show is always a lengthy event; this year, there were fifteen designers turning ten or more looks each. Yet throughout the hour-long runway, one can’t help but to marvel at the sheer imagination (and sometimes, audacity—a fake penis appeared in James Theseus Buck’s section) these pupils bravely put forth. Moreover, the show was also fueled by an emotional undercurrent: It was the last Saint Martins catwalk that’d had its talent cast over by the late educator, Professor Louise Wilson, whom the fashion world memorialized on Friday morning. These students would have been with Wilson during their first year on the course; at the professor’s memorial, Central Saint Martins’ Jane Rapley acknowledged this poignant point.
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