Central Saint Martins’s B.A. Class of 2021 held a graduation show where the students themselves modeled their looks
B.A. class of 2021 put on Tuesday night was a graduation celebration like no other. A collective triumph of youth and creativity over the adversity and trauma of a year of struggle, it had all the thrill of a grand fashion reunion for the hundred students who each walked in their own looks—and for the widely spaced audience who hadn’t seen a live fashion show in so, so long.
Extreme innovation blossomed in kitchens and bedrooms, when there were no “normal” fashion resources at hand, no clubs to go to, nowhere to meet. “Obviously, it was a big shock to the system and the way things went is nothing any of us signed up for,” said Laura Barnes, who ended up constructing her dress from cardboard boxes and waste leather.
Charlie McCosker swung out under another huge hat, wearing her deliberately wonky scarlet Scottish tweed pantsuit. She’s been attracting attention since her first year—when everyone has to design a look in white fabric for the annual White Show. “I’ve been so lucky; the first call I got was from Beyoncé’s stylist,”she said. What may have attracted Beyoncé’s interest: McCosker is Irish–South African.
As large, fabulous, identity-confirming, and uplifting as the spectacle was—never have so many smiles been worn at a fashion show—the ingenuity and the micro-detail of the wild, obsessive techniques behind each look are even more incredible. There will have been thousands of fashion students around the world who have been inventing crazily original nontraditional things. Central Saint Martins’s just got lucky enough to be able to show theirs in public.
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