Fashion Dept LSAD

Thursday, 10 April 2014

LSAD Fashion Graduates Celebrated at Presidental State Visit

As part of the Presidental State visit to the U.K, Sabina Higgins travelled to the Irish embassy where she met with a number of Irish fashion designers, including Louise Kennedy, Simone Rocha and Paul Costelloe. Other guests included LSAD graduates Joanne Hynes, Una Burke, Danielle Romerill and Sorcha O Raghallaigh.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/state-visits/sabina-offers-support-to-fashion-designers-making-way-in-world-30172692.html

Golden Egg Fashion Innovation Awards

Final year students Jordan Edmonds-Moore, Olga Profutkina and Ruth Doyle will be representing LSAD at the Golden Egg Awards which will be taking place in Galway on 17th April. Nicole Jackson is also through to t he finals of the Persil awards.

http://www.goldenegg.ie/events/

Limerick Leader April 12

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

L.S.A.D. KNITWEAR EXHIBITING IN GERMANY

2^nd year students from the Fashion Dept. and 1^st year students from the new Fashion Knitwear & Textiles BA course have joined forces to design and make a collection of garments for the German yarn company ‘Schoeller Sussen GmbH’. The full collection of ten pieces were on exhibit on the ‘Schoeller, Austermann’ stand at the Handarbeit fair in Cologne, Germany on March 22/23/24^th 2014.

In addition to this element, Austermann have introduced ‘LANDLUST’ (publishers of hand knitting patterns in Germany) to the project and four students have designed and produced hand knitting instructions for this company.

The pieces were made with a combination of hand knitting & machine knitting techniques, using a selection of yarns from the ‘Austermann’ hand knitting range.

The subsequent photo shoot was student led, with the students choosing models, styling hair and makeup.

Photography by Robert Corrigan. LSAD (thank you Bob)

Elizabeth Emery, Siobhan O’Dea

Ailbhe Conboy

Aoife Eustace, Kim Fulton, Anne Nolan

Gillian Lee, Deirbhil Nic Giolla, Louise Buckley

Mara Kuvika

Meagan Harley, Ailbhe Conboy

Kate Spillane

Marie Jones

Helen McCormack

Helen McCormack, Sarah Fanning, Eva Haran

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Danielle Romeril featured in Image Magazine

LSAD Graduate Danielle Romeril is featured as the Designer in Focus in the March issue of Image Magazine. Danielle who is based in Dublin has recently been awarded the Topshop sponsored NEWGEN prize which enabled her to show her latest collection at London Fashion Week. Previous recipients of NEWGEN sponsorship include JW Anderson, Simone Rocha, Peter Pilotto and Mary Katrantzou. The Danielle Romeril label is now stocked in 10 countries including Japan, China, Bahrain, the UK and USA. Danielle previously worked with Sharon Wachob in Paris, who will be a guest judge at the Graduate Fashion Show in May.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Ruth Doyle Wins 'One to Watch' at Kerry Fashion Week

Congratulations to LSAD 4th Year Fashion Student Ruth Doyle who has won the KFW One to Watch, sponsored by Lancome Paris. Ruth is currently working on her final year collection which will be part of the LSAD Graduate Fashion Show which will be taking place in the Milk Market in May.

The Winning Collection

http://kerryfashionweek.com/?p=1892

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Soldiers and Chiefs Exhibition - Collins Barracks Dublin

2nd Year LSAD Fashion students are embarking on a new and exciting project with The National Museum - Collins Barracks. The brief is to design and manufacture piece of clothing in response the the Soldiers and Chiefs exhibition which is ongoing at the Museum. A selection of finished pieces will be then exhibited as part of the exhibition in Dublin over the Summer months.As an extension of this, the students work will then be shown in the Hunt Museum as part of Design Week in November.

The project kick-started with a visit to Collins Barracks last week, where the students and staff were guided through the exhibition by the curator, Lar Joye and by military expert Glenn Thompson. This was followed by a handling session where students had the opportunity to see garments up close, which was led by Edith Andrees. A huge thank you to everyone at the museum, particularily Helen Beaumont and Mary Greene from the Education and Outreach Department for making the day so informative and inspiring.

Curator of Soldiers and Chiefs Lar Joye presenting to students

Military Uniform expert Glenn Thompson

Students getting to grips with the Handling Collection

Students had time to focus and record specific areas of interest

Some more of the exhibition....

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

London Trip

The LSAD Fashion Department, staff and students, are just back from London. The annual research and fabric buying trip was a great success and Final Collections are now well underway. Some of the highlights of the trip included the Isabella Blow Exhibition at Somerset House, Club to Catwalk at the V&A, Festival of Imagination at Selfridges, and Dover Street Market which is always a treat!

Staff and students also visited the Fashion Department at the Royal College of Art where 2nd year MA Students showed us their work in progress for their final collections. We also had a fantastic tour of the workshops and studios.

Somerset House