Rebecca Marsden takes two Awards at the Irish Fashion Innovation Awards 2014

Congratulations  to  LSAD  Graduate  Rebecca  Marsden  who  won  both  the  Innovation  Award  2014  and  the  Fashion  Designer  of  the  Year  Award  at  the  Irish  Fashion  Innovation  Awards  2014. Rebecca's  distinctive  style  focuses  on  concept, processes  and  fabric  exploration.

Irish Times Feature

Work  from  current  4th  Year  collections  feature  in  an  article  by  Deirdre  McQuillan  in  The  Irish  Times  Weekend  Magazine. Students  are  busy finishing  off  collections  for  the  Graduate  Show  which  will  be  taking  place  in  The  Milk  Market on  May  15th. Tickets are  available  on  line  at;    http://lit.ie/lsad/fashionshow/default.aspx

 

 

2ND YEAR FASHION - COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLINS BARRACKS DUBLIN

2nd  YEAR  STUDENTS  VISITED  THE  NATIONAL  MUSEUM  FOR  A  TOUR  OF THE  SOLDIERS  AND  CHIEFS  EXHIBITION. THIS  WAS  FOLLOWED  BY   A  WORKSHOP  WHERE  GARMENTS  AND  ARTEFACTS  WERE  HANDLED AND  EXAMINED  IN  DETAIL.

STUDENTS  WERE   ALLOCATED  A  THEME TO  RESEARCH 

THEME  1    THE  WILD  GEESE   MEN  WHO  LEFT  IRELAND  TO  JOIN  ARMIES  IN  OTHER  COUNTRIES SUCH AS FRANCE
THEME  2    FIRST  WORLD  WAR     SOLDIERS ON THE  FRONT  LINE  WERE  OFTEN  POORLY  EQUIPPED.     
THEME  3    SECOND  WORLD  WAR    WAR  HAS  BECOME  MORE  MECHANISED  AND  TECHNICAL.    
THEME  4    DEFENSE  FORCES    CURRENT  DAY  PEACEKEEPING. THE  FUTURE  OF  UNIFORM. TECHNOLOGY, PROTECTION, CHEMICAL WARFARE.   

THE  12  SELECTED  GARMENTS  WILL  GO  ON  DISPLAY  IN  COLLINS  BARRACKS   IN  MAY  AND  WILL  RUN  UNTIL  THE  END  OF  AUGUST.

THE  WORK  WILL  ALSO  BE  EXHIBITED  IN  THE  HUNT  MUSEUM  IN  NOVEMBER AS  PART  OF  DESIGN  WEEK  AND  LIMERICK  CITY  OF  CULTURE.

 

 Exhibition  of  work  in  the  LSAD  Foyer

 Work  inspired  by  World  War  1

 Work  inspired  by  World  War  2

 Work  inspired  by  the  Defense  Forces

Work  inspired  by  The  Wild  Geese

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

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         

 

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.