Portfolio Work

Recently I had an interview with the a representative for the London College of fashion. After showing her some of my personal paintings and drawings I had done she suggested that I would be more suited for the illustration course at LCF instead of Fashion Design. This was due to the fact that I had a lack of fashion based work in my portfolio and she suggested to work on that as much as possible in order to get into LCF. I am not intending on applying for LCF however it is part of UAL as is Central Saint Martins and so I have taken her advice and written myself a brief to create a good portfolio of work. I have created this brief by reading fashion design books and reading various blogs and lectures from the internet.

I will Post this brief on my blog soon.

Looking at Universities

UCAS Fair London Olympia 2013

On the of November I went to the UCAS fair at London Olympia which housed all of the art based universities in Britain under one roof.

After talking with my family and teachers i have discovered that Fashion is the pathway I want to chose to study. It is the subject and art I know and love best. Fashion is something I understand and something i understand has a lottery depth and beauty than most people seem to think it has.

A course i have found that I particularly like is the Central Saint Martins course of Fashion Design with Marketing. The additional contextual knowledge alongside the fashion creativity and practical appeals to me, as i feel it will give me more knowledge of the industry I wish to be a part of.

The UCAS Fair introduced me to universities that O had not heard of such as the East London University, the university of Coventry and Falmouth. I picked up a few prospectuses and chose the ones i preferred.

Another university was the university of Westminster. When i poked up a prospectus i saw a photo on the cover of Ashleigh Williams fashion east 2013 show! When i asked one of the students they confirmed that Williams and in fact Claire Barrow studied at Westminster university and had recently graduated.

Being an admirer of the fashion east designers I was ecstatic with excitement and devoured the prospectus. I then researched everything i could about Westminster university. It will be another one of my choices of universities to apply for.