Fashion New Optimism: 18 Fresh Talents

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Dazeddigital presents 18 of the freshest young fashion talents of the year. For the December issue of Dazed & Confused, the fashion team gave reason to be cheerful with a shoot by Daniel Sannwald styled by Katie Shillingford and Robbie Spencer. Pierre Debuscherre also made a film to accompany this energetic shoot, which showcased the new designers, the new faces as chosen by the Dazed fashion team and and above all it asks people to "Smile!".

Click here for the fantastic film
http://www.dazeddigital.com/Fashion/article/1440/1/Fashions_New_Optimism


Alice Kirkpatrick

Katie Eary
An RCA grad who would love to be a fly on the wall in Marchesa Luisa Casati's house and make couture.

Andrea Cammarosano
Fresh from the Antwerp academy, his fear of womenswear was soon settled by the fact that women are "just like us only with a bigger potato between their legs."

Lars Paschke
An Antwerp grad who doesn't believe in the idea of a fashion idol and would be a cook if he wasn't a fashion designer

Annika Berger
This Swedish designer started off studying engineering and industrial design and has never studied fashion before.

Lou Dalton
A graduate and now teacher at the RCA, Lou is inspired by Wallace Simpson, Guy Bourdin and the Coen brothers.

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Antonin Tron
Another Antwerpian who wouldn't mind going back to the 50s' during the golden age of couture.

Mark Fast
The Canadian knitwear designer has already got his foot in the door with Browns as his exclusive stockist.

Cooperative Designs
A knitwear duo that graduated from Central St Martins who counts Schiaparelli wearing a trompe d'oeil sweater as a top fashion moment.

Nina Hjorth
The Danish footwear designer respects Nicholas Kirkwood and would not mind living in the 18th century.

Craig Lawrence
After being told that at LCF, they did projects on Tescos, he defected to CSM and made a collection revolving around Christomas decorations

Sandra Backlund
A bittersweet week in Miami gave this much-lauded knitwear designer her spring summer 2009 collection.

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This is neat I like the first set alot

 

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Damien Fredriksen Ravn
By A/W 2029, he hopes to have his own label established in London or Paris.

Yang Du
A designer who indulges in surrealist collections featuring knitted pork chops and monster face jumpers.

Jaiden rVa James
A menswear duo who learnt early on that fashion comes before food

Xander Zhou
Based in Beijing, this designer reckons it's much easier to establish oneself as an independent designer in China than in Europe.

Jessica Au
A menswear designer who has made romantical floral suits for teddy boys

Hung La
His collection revolved around Rousseau's natural man theories, hence the repetitive monkey motif.

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[dior_couture1245]

The best one is Sandra Backlund.

Alice Kirkpatrick is such a Gareth Pugh wannabe.

 

[from: sophia]

^ Yeah I love her knit wear it is so architectural

 

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The shoot

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[from: sophia]

Is that going to be in Dazed and Confuse december or is it online only?

 

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[Scott]

other than the obvious in my absolute adoration of sandra,i also find katie eary rather a stand out amongst the bunch. taking less of a monochromatic approach that pretty much dominates menswear,i find her approach extremely refreshing.

 

[kala_dev]

wow ! great talents

 

[MulletProof]

Antonion's work is the one that truly speaks to me out of the entire bunch.
and Sandra of course.. she's undeniably talented.

They could've included Matthew Cunnington.. he's seriously someone to watch.

thanks for the thread, kiddo!.

 

[kahlilg]

wow wow wow i'm going to have to subscribe to this ed cause i want to look into all these designers

 

[Whitelinen]

I just have to say that I don't agree with the modern definition of "talent". I don't see that any of this work showcases any kind of talent for actual craftsmanship. I think these days we are far too much caught up with "creativity" - and to be honest, even in that this isn't great. All I see is material and junk heaped on models.

The only exceptions are Sandra Backlund and Damien Fredriksen Ravn. Although that particular collections from which the featured photos are from wasn't as good as her other collections, she is fresh. Never heard of Fredriksen Ravn, but I like those three pictures, although they do evoke strong associations with Alexander McQueen's late 90's collections.

 

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A lil deeper into Antonin Tron's work

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His ARA grad collection

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