Fashion Fringe is an annual award show thats supports up and coming designers through mentoring, studio space, financial support and a catwalk show at London Fashion week. Leading up to the fashion shows Colin McDowell organised different talks with designers in the major UK cities. Matthew Williamson came to Mnachester to do an interview with Colin. A lot of the interview was about how he became a designer, including a placement with Zandra Rhodes, and worked for Monsoon where he got to go traveling to many different cities; his inspiration for all his work a long with nature. Some things that he said I found quite useful like when he said about adapting your work for the country it is aimed at, and dont be temip with anything you do, the greatest designers do what they want and believe in. He also spoke about the Butterfly Home Collection he is now designing for Debenhams which I didn't know about before, these are clearly inspired by eastern countries. They were interesting but did not inspire my project.
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