Students use Cordura fabrics for graduate fashion week collectionsStudents use Cordura fabrics for graduate fashion week collections

Students use Cordura fabrics for graduate fashion week collections

Two students are amongst some to have implemented CORDURA Fabrics into their designs that are part of this week’s Graduate Fashion displays in London.

Bethany Martin – Northampton University
Bethany won the CORDURA Durable Design Award in the Project 20/20 workwear contest last year. This is her final year collection and it is outdoor industry inspired.  Fabrics supplied to her are from two of the ISPO Textrends award winning mills – Yoonia and One Chang – both based in Korea.

Seunghee Lim – Royal College of Art
Seunghee has a workwear/military faceted collection that takes fabric inspiration and styling from athletic bags and equipment. She chose to work with CORDURA Fabrics that are traditionally used in bags and packs. Fabrics are from mills in Germany and Asia region.

This is what Seunghee says: “To me, the conditions of now-a-day's material reality is about functionalism. After looking back from my surroundings, I started from the frame of a ready-meal case. This generic frame is specific in its detail through a Molle [Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment] system and Labels. I wanted to show this as ordinary and reject a concentrated aesthetic of beauty. To show this concept through fashion, my collection want to be categorized by work-wear as the form of technical and functional solution. The stitch and fasteners should visible like the inside of machine to show the logical structure of cloth.”