Subtle Hues

Elin Klevmar Graduate Collection

Today I feel like wearing all-white. Unfortunately I don't really have anything white. That's why I have to stay in bed all day and wrap myself in crispy sheets. But I probably won't.
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Career Woman

Victoria Stone Graduate collection

Asymmetry and disproportion. The power suit has undergone a mental change. Dissolving in certain areas while heightening in others. Confused and inappropriate in a strinking manner.
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Weather Forecast

Alan Humphrey Bennett Graduate collection

Lately, I feel the desire to dress someone in outdoor clothes and create the image of a forest worker. With water-repellent coats, quilted vests and hiking boots. Preferably in tones of moss green, light turquoise, grey and light brown.
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Heir To The Throne

Janosch Malwitz UDK Graduate Collection

I am feeling excitement. The certainty that we are witnessing something outstanding and fantastic. Detachable leather boots. Fishing, biking and skydiving references. I just can't get over the brilliancy, how devastatingly beautiful and forward-thinking this collection is. A new Raf Simons has emerged.
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Via Julie's Juice

Scintillation Study

Top Lilly Heine
Bottom Victor Vasarely

A glance into the archives of much vaunted CSM graduate Lilly Heine. Irritating views onto an intangible subject, cut out of paper. Inspired by 60s op-art, the result leaves the viewer with doubts about reality.
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Ghetto Kitten

Astrid Andersen Graduate Collection

Rude boys in leopard print. Baseball jackets and animal print cycling shorts. As her name implies, Astrid Andersen continues the legacy of two literates: Astrid Lindgren and Hans Christian Andersen. Telling a wonderful fairytale.
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Image credits Catwalking

Parallel Reality

Klara Sjons Nilsson Graduate collection

Intepretations of a three- and two-dimensional world. A reality that is built upon principles that are chosen by its creator. Defining how the world is seen and reflected. An investigation of perception that reveals and succeeds.
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Image credits Anders Lindén

Not Myself Tonight

Disa Treutiger Graduate collection

"We all carry memories, fragments that symbolize different feelings we have experienced. I have made a visual interpretation of loss, oblivion, confusion and change. What is remembered and what is forgotten?"

As obedient devotee, I once again fell for Disa Treutiger's work. When carefully examnining her garments, her conceptual approach becomes self-evident.
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Image credits Kristian Löveborg

Wolpertinger

Merve Tuna Graduate Collection

Humanity is questioned and the monstrous idealised. Taxidermised animals serve as belt, stole, brooch and trousers. Cruel accessories opposed to soft and feminine materials. A macabre vision, yet perfectly executed.
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Antagonism

Lilly Heine Graduate collection

To do her justice and worship the exquisit craftsmanship, Lilly Heine's CSM graduate collection in full beauty. Most remarkable is the fragility that has been achieved by superposing severe geometric shapes. Multiplication and an exuberant use of fabric that translate into minimalist garments. In this case, more is less.
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Image credits Style.com

Nude Feminity Fight

Lilly Heine Graduate collection vs. Tit scarf

By building up multiple layers of lasercut wool crepe, Lilly Heine creates three-dimensional shapes of severe precision. Literally adding a new dimension to textile technology. I can hear Prada knocking on her door.
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Subtle Touch

Josef Lazo Graduate collection

High-buttoned and highly seductive. A collection that succeeds in uniting rivalling contradictions. Sheer trousers that provoke a breeze of sensuality. Strict suits and leather waistcoats that quote elemtents of menswear. The white shirt serving as pure base and projection screen for multiple layers of meaning. In this case, silence best communicates the speakers message and intention.
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Evil Brain Fight

Maria Melinder Graduate Collection vs. Krang

Somehow, don't ask me why, this look reminded me of a brain. But not just a brain, the brain. The evil brain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Life is beautiful.
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