Winner of SDC Colour & Textiles Award!

SDC award winner Laura Fauvel pictured with Chris Sargeant
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Laura Fauvel from Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication in London was crowned the winner of this year's SDC Colour & Textiles Award at Graduate Fashion Week. The Gala Show where all the winners were announced took place a week ago today - and what a glittering event it was! SDC staff and guests mingled with the likes of top designers Zandra Rhodes and Katie Greenyer of Pentland -
a member of this year's GFW mentoring panel. But most of all it was thrilling to meet the three students whose work had been recognised at such a high level and shortlisted for our award at GFW. Along with winner Laura, congratulations also go to the other finalists Louise Simmonds (Northbrook College) and Gadon Liu (University of East London).
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The judges - David Saunders (the designer behind label David David) and Chris Sargeant (SDC vice-president fashion/design) - had a formidable task when it came to the judging process as more colleges than ever nominated students for our award. But they were unanimous when it came to choosing the winner, impressed by Laura's sophisticated designs, which were reminiscent of birds of prey and had a colour palette to match. We will be showcasing Laura's work in our magazine and in our online galleries in the not-too-distant future, so watch this space!
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We were thrilled also that two of our patron colleges had winning students also - Ria Thomas from Nottingham Trent University walked away with the Pringle of Scotland Visionary Knitwear Award; and the National Magazine ‘First Word’ Journalism Award went to Jennifer Weibking from UCCA Epsom – who had all the three shortlisted students in this category. A full list of winners will be available on the GFW website in due course.
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But it's not all about the awards. Each year the GFW exhibition itself is jam-packed with an amazing array of truly inspiring talent, with literally thousands of design portfolios on show. But more on that in subsequent posts . . .
For the moment, it's all about our winner Laura. Congratulations again!
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by CMcN

Connecting Colleges with Colour @ GFW

And so Graduate Fashion Week is upon us! It starts on Sunday and runs through to next Thursday. We are just about ready to head to London and by the time the exhibition opens, our stand will be a (colourful) shining beacon that entices people to come and find out all about the SDC. The message that we want to get across to everyone we meet at GFW this year is how the SDC can connect colleges with colour. There are lots of ways . . . come and meet us at stand D106 and find out how!



As well as sponsoring the Colour & Textiles Award at GFW, the SDC will also be running a colour perception competition for students every day at our stand (a sneak preview is given in the image above). We'll be asking whether, when starting out to create a fabric or print, do designers realise the importance that colour perception can have on that design. With a bit of creativity and knowledge about how colours interact with each other, there are ways of tricking people into seeing more colours in a design than there actually are. On the Education Day (Thursday 12th), we will also have interactive presentations at various points throughout the day to inspire budding designers. Come and visit us at Earls Court 2 at stand D106. More details about Graduate Fashion Week are available at: http://www.gfw.org.uk/
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by CMcN