The V&A partners with Stratford Circus Arts Centre on free event – Careers in Fashion and Costume to inspire the next generation of fashion talent in lead up to V&A East…
What: Making It: Careers in Fashion and Costume
Cost: Free, drop-in event
When: 11.00 – 17.00 Saturday 22 February 2020
Where: Stratford Circus Arts Centre, London, E15 1BX
On 22 February 2020, the V&A will stage Making It: Careers in Fashion and Costume – a day of free drop-in events at Stratford Circus Arts Centre. Designed for 16-24-year olds, it will offer a series of practical sessions and insider tips for people keen to carve out a career in the fashion and costume industry.
Packed full of talks, workshops, design displays, one-to-one advice sessions, and live make-up, illustration and tailoring demos, attendees will get the chance to meet a range of experts, from fashion stylists to street style photographers, illustrators, make-up artists, hip-hop performers, fashion designers, and leading figures from the British Fashion Council.
The careers in fashion and costume event has been developed in collaboration with young people from Stratford-based Legacy Youth Voice and East Works Alumni, as well as the V&A’s youth collective CreateVoice. It includes presentations of new work by east London-based students and creatives including Fashion Awareness Direct, University of East London and Paynter Jackets, based at The Trampery Fish Island Village.
Programme highlights
• Careers in the fashion industry – the British Fashion Council’s Judith Rosser-Davies talks through the different jobs available in the fashion industry and how to get the skills and experience needed to succeed
• Becoming a stylist – leading fashion entrepreneur and celebrity stylist Taslima Khan on what it takes to make it as a stylist
• Careers in costume design – designer Dean Blunkell on the skills needed to break into costume design
• Sportswear design – London College of Fashion course leader Claudine Rousseau shares her experience in the sportswear industry and the range of jobs within it
• Ways into fashion – designer and University of East London lecturer Namal Lanka talks through the courses, free fashion projects, training and job opportunities available in east London right now
• Streetstyle photography – an in-conversation with photographers Eddie Otchere, who has captured world-renowned hip-hop and rap artists from Snoop Dogg to Biggie Smalls, and Adam Ali, on how they got into photography and the ways that streetstyle informs their work
• Being a fashion designer – Stratford-based fashion designer Jane Bowler, whose designs have been photographed by Nick Knight and Rankin, talks to the V&A’s Artist in Residence, Moses Quiquine, about their route into fashion and how they make it work as freelance designers
• Creating Fashion Portfolios – designer and lecturer Jane Francis gives practical tips on creating a compelling portfolio to help secure a dream job or a place on a fashion course
• Costume for the Stage – freelancer Catherine Kodicek talks about making and maintaining costumes for the stage, as well as working to budgets and deadlines, and the reality of freelancer life
• Fashion Shops – a Thing of the Past? – designers Steven Tai (Steven Tai Studio) and Sabinna Rachimova (SABINNA) from The Trampery Fish Island Village, take part in a panel discussion about e-commerce and its effect on fashion
• Hip-Hop Style – members from Breakin’ Convention, an annual hip-hop theatre festival organised by Sadler’s Wells, discuss their style and the importance of hip-hop as an identity expressed through music and clothes. Also includes a live performance
• Creating Socially Sustainable Fashion – luxury fashion design consultant Avis Charles explores how designers and creatives support the development of international artisans and what this means for creating new global fashion futures
No advance booking is necessary and you can drop in at any point throughout the day.
Find more info about Making it careers in fashion and costume here.
