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This is the second year that the school's annual Graduate Fashion Show has taken place digitally
On May 21, 2021, LaSalle College of the Arts premiered their annual Graduate Fashion Show virtually for the second year in a row. Amid tightened restrictions in Singapore to stop the spread of Covid-19 in Singapore, the final-year students got creative and showed their collections through film.
Expanding on the question, “Where does the body end and where does dress begin?” as posed by scholars Alexandra Warwick and Dani Cavallaro, the graduating class tackling topics as disparate as sustainability, heritage, the role of fashion in society and needs of modern consumers with creative proposals. From Justin Chua's cleverly thought out capsule collection of androgynous pieces—each of which can be reimagined and worn in different ways—to Meng Ge's Niegour collection, which explores contemporary and tradition dress, by way of the designer's Tibetan heritage.
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“Our young talents are approaching fashion design from new perspectives. They propose new shifts on the future of fashion that are strongly contextualised in the environmental and social consideration of the present and the future. Such brave proposals aim to change how we used to dress,” said Dinu Bodiciu, the BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles Programme lecturer at LaSalle.
You can see more from the graduating class of 2021 here and the fashion film, A New Light, in the video below.
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