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Graduate FashionWeek. The successcomes during a par-ticularly special yearfor the school as wecelebrate 170 years

of art and design inNottingham.”

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Name: Olivia (Livy) MontgomerieAge: 20Area: City centreCourse: Fashion communication andpromotionBlog Address: www.walkinwardrobefashion.blogspot.co.uk

Olivia’s outfitHat: TopshopCoat: TopshopDress: TopshopTights: H&MBoots:TopshopWatch:FossilScrunchie:UrbanOutfittersBag:GivenchyNecklace:UrbanOutfittersSunglasses:Topshop

I’ve alwaysbeeninspired byParis andthis outfittook on atwist of theoriginalnauticaltheme. Imixed it upwith maroonand added apop of pastel.

I love stripes because they fitperfectly into every season and ifworn with the right accessories, canbe dressed up or down. I then addedthe hat because it’s always been asignature item for me. I own fourdifferent bowler hats and a millionother beanies and bobble hats!

I’m a big fan of chunky coats and Ihave just about every colour coatthere is going. They add a differentdimension to your ensemble and Isee a coat as a great accessory tocomplete and complement an outfit.

I don’t tend to stick to oneparticular style, or follow oneparticular trend. I take my style as Ifeel from day to day.

By Kate Parker

what you’rewearing

ITV’S DAYBREAK presenterSusanna Reid was the lady inred when she stepped out atthe Baftas in London in avibrant floor-length Bibagown.

The 43-year-old brunettebeauty, who wowed TV audi-ences with her routines onStrictly Come Dancing, puther best foot forward in spark-

ling silver shoes, a glittery em-bellished clutch and a dash ofred lipstick.

This red carpet look caneasily be recreated for anyglamorous events you havecoming up this summer.

Just make sure, if like the TVpresenter you are opting for apop of colour, you keep theaccessories simple.

Road to

Get into the football spirit thissummer and let the World Cuptransform your wardrobe. LucyBudge picks out the best inBrazilian style

capital gains

Cowl back maxi dress,£149, Biba at House ofFraser, Victoria Centre,www.houseoffraser.co.uk

Silver beaded clutch bag,£19.99, New Look, ListerGate, www.newlook.com

Silver jewelled sandals,£68, Next, VictoriaCentre, www.next.co.uk

Lasting finish lipstickin shade 1, £5.49,Kate Moss forRimmel at Boots,Victoria Centre,www.boots.com

get the look Susanna Reid

Bikini top £8, bikini brief £6 and sunglasses £4, allMatalan, Springfield Retail Park,www.matalan.co.uk

Brazil T-shirt, £12.99, New Look,Lister Gate, www.newlook.com

Carnationrose goldearrings,£399, TresorParis atCopeJewellers,ParliamentStreet,www.tresorparis.co.uk

Carnation rose gold ring, £69,Tresor Paris at CopeJewellers, Parliament Street,www.tresorparis.co.uk

Mint bikini set,£34, Topshop,

Victoria Centre,www.topshop.com

Brasil sandals,£20, Havaianas

at Schuh,Long Row,

www.schuh.co.uk

England 2014T-shirt, £4.99, NewLook, Lister Gate,www.newlook.com

Yellow clutch bag, £25,Topshop, Victoria Centre,

www.topshop.com

World Cupshopper bag, £19,Accessorize,www.accessorize.com

Carnivalnecklace, £8,Accessorize,

Victoria Centre,www.accessorize.

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A sweep of Nottingham designs strutted down thecatwalk in the capital this week as Graduate FashionWeek unfolded. Lucy Budge headed to the event andspoke to the talented Nottingham Trent Universitystudents

wanted to show how the se-quins can look different whenput against black and thenwhite material. On black theylook neon green and on whitethey look bright pink.

“I’ve started speaking to a lotof fashion bloggers since theshow and they all loved it. I’vealso got some freelance work inthe pipeline.”

Taking on the mighty task ofclosing the show was interna-tional student Kitty Mok. Hercollection saw the modelswearing designs relating togame arcade cartoons such asSpace Invaders.

SHOWCASING their designs tofashion designers, industry ex-perts and photographers, uni-versity students from aroundthe UK took to Graduate Fash-ion Week.

This year’s event at the OldTruman Brewery in London in-cluded a fabulous show fromfashion students of Notting-ham Trent University.

Student designers includingSally McIntosh Light, CourtneyMoncur and Kitty Mok wereamong the 24 who were se-lected to head to the capitaland take their designs to therunway.

Courtney, who is originallyfrom Edinburgh, particularlystood out from the crowd withher Disney-inspired collec-tion.

The 21-year-old says: “I star-ted designing my clothing withDisney in mind but I then tookit from my own angle and gaveit a twist.

“Each outfit features my ownbear cartoon in the print andthere’s a lot of fur and differenttextures on display.”

The six models wearingCourtney’s designs strutteddown the catwalk to a remix ofa Disney music mash-up,which the young designer pro-duced herself.

Her friends and family wereamong the many lining thewhite runway, as well as acrowd of industry professionalsand designers.

“I think the show went really

well and I’m happy with howall of my designs looked. It wasa surreal moment,” she says.

“The show gives students thechance to show our work topeople who you wouldn’t ne-cessarily see or meet. I man-aged to pick up a few businesscards and I have my CV, so

fingers crossed!”The show went without a

hitch and resulted in an im-pressive display of the stu-dents’ creative talent.

Taking inspiration from hersurname, fellow student SallyMcIntosh Light, 23, caught theattention of large fashionhouse Gap after her designsfeatured at the NTU show.

Her collection focused heav-ily on the aspect of light, usingvarious light bulb shaped ac-cessories and a print incor-porating the names of types oflight bulbs.

She says: “The show wasgreat. Graduate Fashion Weekis something that is built upfrom the first year of universityfor the job opportunities it canprovide.

“Because my surname isLight I wanted to make it mykind of brand and do it in anironic way. The collection isheavily connected to light.

“I’ve been given the name ofsomeone from Gap who wasinterested in my collection so Iwill definitely be contactingthem soon.”

Fashion bloggers were alsoamong the throng of industryexperts present at the Londonvenue and were impressedwith the designs of Nottinghamdesigner Louise ScarlettBrown, who used large irides-cent sequins throughout herknitwear collection.

The 23-year-old, who is ori-ginally from Lincoln, says: “I

Students’

Courtney Moncur’sDisney-inspired designs.(Photos by David Baird -www.david-baird.co.uk)

Sally McIntosh Light’s designs relate to light andlight prisms while Kitty Mok’s collection (right)saw the models wearing designs relating togame arcade cartoons such as Space Invaders.

‘’The show gives students thechance to show our work topeople who you wouldn’tnecessarily see or meet.

Courtney Moncur

The 22-year-old says: “I wasreally happy and excited whenI found out I was not only

chosen to showcase atGFW, but that I was also

closing the show. Itwas a complete sur-

prise and I didn’t knowuntil a few days be-fore.“It was a mad rush

before the show be-cause I had a lotof last minutealterations tomake, but itcame togeth-

er in theend. I gotreallygoodfeedbackfromeveryonewhen itfinished.”

The youngdesignerswill begraduatingfrom theuniversitythis sum-mer with

high hopesof gainingjobs in the

fashion in-dustry.

But with the bigsuccess of Graduate

Fash-ion Week, the industry is setto snap up Nottingham’s tal-

ented students.Marjolijn Brussaard,

Dean of the school of artand design, says: “I amextremely proud of thestunning quality and pro-fessionalism that our

students displayed at

Louise Scarlett Brown, whoused large iridescent sequins.