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I’m Oriole Cullen, I’m the curator for Fashion in Motion at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Today we are having a show Fashion in Motion, New Designers.
It features the work of three Central St Martins graduates:
Alithia Spuri-Zampetti, Kinga Malisz and Felipe Rojas-Llanos.
Their work is graduate collections and we are featuring three pieces from each collection.
The three designers we chose because I’d seen their graduate’s shows
and I was really impressed with their work.
So we chose them individually but it’s been really great to see their work together.
There is a real synergy between the pieces
they really work with the models in the gallery
and there is a really nice juxtaposition between the sort of classical background with the Museum’s artefacts
and these examples of sort of new designers and cutting edge design.
This show has actually returned to the original format of Fashion in Motion
which started just 10 years ago, in 1999.
Initially we started with just two models and six Philip Tracey hats.
But as the event grew it just got too big to manage in that format
and we moved then into the Raphael Gallery for staged catwalk shows.
So this is very much a kind of underground show in essence, an underground approach.
We’ve got these new designers and we really wanted to bring their work here
and for people to just happen upon it
and just to get that surprise and that shock to see these pieces moving through the gallery.
And I think you can really feel that when you see these incredibly dramatic head pieces by Alithia
coming first and then very quiet mood of Felipe’s boys
and then these very dramatic pieces by Kinga. So I think it’s really worked.