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Ten Designers to Watch from Graduate Fashion Week 2026
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Ten Designers to Watch from Graduate Fashion Week 2026

Cold Magazine | The dust has settled on Graduate Fashion Week, the event that brings our finest fashion graduates together in East London’s Truman Brewery. It was a mammoth week, featuring over 3,500 graduating students from 70 universities. Fashion design students presented collections that, without the resources of design houses, laid bare their personal expression and craftsmanship.

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Stefan Cooke SS24
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Stefan Cooke SS24

As a sedate poem soundtracked the dark mirrored room, Stefan Cooke sent his first look down then runway to rising lights and techno beats…

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Di Petsa SS24
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Di Petsa SS24

London Fashion Week wraps up a summer ruled by the Venus Retrograde, so when Di Petsa presented a SS24 collection titled ‘Reflections of Venus’ on Friday, it seemed the stars had aligned over the capital.

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Live Report: Flow Festival
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Live Report: Flow Festival

Clash Magazine | For this British writer, who’s used to muddy, litter-strewn fields, pop-up tents from Aldi, and rowdy crowds of weekend warriors, Flow Festival was an entirely foreign – and welcome – experience.

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