Day 2: The Graduates
Explore the creative process behind the graduate collections of Central Saint Martins MA students Fiona Blakeman and Teruhiro Hasegawa on day two of The Graduates Tumblr Takeover. Expect moodboards, sketches, fabric swatches and more.
Explore the creative process behind the graduate collections of Central Saint Martins MA students Fiona Blakeman and Teruhiro Hasegawa on day two of The Graduates Tumblr Takeover. Expect moodboards, sketches, fabric swatches and more.
Fiona Blakeman
Fiona Blakeman was born in 1988 in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, a small market town in Staffordshire, UK. After attaining a first-class BA Hons in Textile Design from Nottingham Trent University, Blakeman moved to London in 2011 to gain Fashion industry experience. She interned for companies such as Burberry, Mary Katrantzou and Jonathan Saunders. Blakeman is now a graduate of the MA Fashion course at Central Saint Martins where she specialised in Textiles for Fashion. Her graduate collection was shown on schedule at London Fashion Week as part of the Central Saint Martins AW14 showcase.
Her work has been featured in publications such as ID, Dazed & Confused, Love Magazine and Vogue Italia, as well as online at Anothermag and British Vogue.
Teruhiro Hasegawa
Teruhiro Hasegawa is a graduate of the MA Fashion course at Central Saint Martins. Having completed the BA Fashion programme at CSM, after a stint at Alexander McQueen and Lanvin, Hasegawa returned in 2012 to complete his MA under Louise Wilson. He took first prize of the Chloe Award scholarship in 2013 alongside the Jane Rapley scholarship. His MA collection won the LVMH graduate prize. Hasegawa now works for Givenchy in Paris.
