Author: Jakub

  • EIFF: Day 6

    EIFF: Day 6

    Day 6 of Edinburgh International Fashion Festival took place at City Art Centre, a main Edinburgh art gallery with one of the best collections of Scottish art.

    The venue’s ground floor was transformed into a pop-up market where some of the best emerging Scottish designers showed their creations. In the upper galleries, a fashion show brought the designs to life against the backdrop of Condé Nast exhibition “Coming Into Fasthion”, showcasing photographs by the likes of Helmut Newton, Mario Testino and Corinne Day.

    Edinburgh International Fasthion Festival ends tomorrow with a presentation and closing party featuring hairdresser Gianni Scumaci.

  • EIFF: Day 4

    EIFF: Day 4

    Location Scotland provide full production co-ordination and location management for stills, video and TV shoots. The team have been working in Scotland with a variety of fashion clients from Japan, Australia, Europe and the USA. 

    The most recent editorial campaigns include C.R Fashion Book, Style.com, Vanity Fair, Fantastic Man, AnOther Man and Marie Claire Italia.

    The Location Scotland team opened their studio doors for the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival and we had a  chance to view editorial images shot by the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Alasdair McLellan, Jason Bell and Rennio Maifredi.

    The Edinburgh International Fashion Festival continues until the 28th of July.

  • EIFF: Day 3

    EIFF: Day 3

    We just came back from the Symposium, a day of talks and moderated panel discussions organised as a part of the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival. Discussions with Georgina Goodman (shoe designer), Bella Freud (designer and film maker), Amanda Harlech (creative consultant for brands including Chanel), David Lindsay (Net a Porter and Farfetch), Paula Goldstein (Digital Editor of Purple.fr) and others were moderated by Jackie McGlone, an interviewer and feature writer for newspapers and magazines, specialising in arts, culture and design.

    Georgina Goodman, who was mentored by Manolo Blahnik at the Royal College of Art, mentioned how strange designs will bring a designer a lot of publicity, but they don’t sell. The trick is in balancing the more commercial work with designs that can’t be often worn.

    Bella Freud talked about her numerous collaborations, saying that they can be very interesting, stimulating but also problematic at times.

    An important point was also made by Paula Goldstein in the final talk today, when she mentioned that fashion world is obsessed with the instant sharing, fashion editors are often fixated with taking a perfect Instagram picture, and they are not able to fully enjoy the magic of a fashion show and fully capture its mood, and all the details of the designs.

    The Edinburgh International Fashion Festival continues until the 28th of July.

  • EIFF: Day 1

    EIFF: Day 1

    Heading into its second edition, the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival has already made an impressive mark on the international fashion scene, engaging with the industry and the city in a fresh, innovative way. This year sees a further evolution of the Festival, with a series of curated events across Edinburgh.

    Yesterday we went along to the Clements Ribeiro show opening the festival. Clements Ribeiro is the design partnership of Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro, a couple who met at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art. There, of course, were plenty of fashionable people around, wearing stand out outfits and stunning accessories that made us want to buy Rolex Datejust watches ourselves.

    Today and tomorrow you can come along to the StitchLab with a designer Sruli Recht. Watch our short film about Carrie Maginn, the producer of the StitchLab here.

    www.edinburghinternationalfashionfestival.com

  • Alec Dudson: Intern Magazine

    Alec Dudson: Intern Magazine

    Intern magazine is a forthcoming, bi-monthly independent print publication concerned with interns and internships in the creative industries. We speak to Alec Dudson, its founder, to find our more about the intern culture and the magazine itself.

    For new creatives, it is now harder than ever to find employment? Is art school and design education enough to succeed in the creative industries?

    Alec: I think that the inference today, is that while education is of paramount importance in giving you the tools to fulfil creative briefs, without ‘industry experience’ this can be somewhat futile. This is by no means an absolute truth, more a belief that the industry (intentionally or otherwise) perpetuates.

    While it is incredibly tough to find work in the creative industries I hope the magazine can help people objectively approach the task of setting out on that path and offer at the very least, the awareness that there are other options opposed to moving between fruitless internships.

    How did the idea for the magazine come about? What inspired you to start the project?

    Alec: The idea for the magazine emerged from my own frustrations as an intern. Having finally found a “job” that I was truly passionate about, it became clear that the route to breaking into that world was one fraught with obstacles. It struck me that the year it took me to realise the way things really worked (in terms of internships) could have been improved somewhat if I had some idea of what was actually facing me. The entire project is geared towards assisting (in a variety of ways) those who are embarking on the perilous journey of becoming a full-time professional in the creative industries. Whether this is through advice, the tales of others, or by acting as a platform, we are looking to improve the intern experience. The best means with which we can achieve this, is through an engaging and frank debate which encourages the industries to assess intern culture reflexively and with a degree of foresight.

    We really hope Intern reaches its Kickstarter goal – the magazine is very current and will definitely make a difference in spotting and recognising new talent!

    intern-mag.com