JCA London Fashion Academy hosts debut show featuring new designers

Showing first, British dressmaker, Patrick McDowell, unveiled his newest assortment Marie Antoinette goes to Liverpool, merging the uncanny world of Marie Antoinette together with his personal Liverpudlian background. Opening the MA Show, Noon Khouri introduced her nomadic, inclusive and up-cycled denim model Angels Wear Nada, adopted by Melissa-Kate, who showcased For the Love of Venus PT.III, the third capsule in a three-part, year-long collection which delves into the spirituality, symbolism and conspiracies behind the planet Venus. Afterwards, Annabelle Barton introduced Size-A, a luxurious womenswear model born from the will for creatively designed, luxurious garments that may match a spread of petite girls, adopted by Sophie Park showcasing the primary assortment of her eponymous plant-based gender-neutral footwear model that fuses whimsical Wes Anderson-esque symmetry with the ambiguous silhouettes seen usually within the work of Rei Kawakubo, based on a press launch by JCA.

Professor Jimmy Choo’s Mayfair primarily based JCA | London Fashion Academy lately hosted its debut London Fashion Week City Wide MA show featuring 5 designer entrepreneurs, alongside JCA’s designer in residence, Patrick McDowell. JCA | London Fashion Academy is a vogue college {and professional} incubator, based by Professor Jimmy Choo OBE and Stephen Smith.

Patrick McDowell’s assortment contains 30 appears to be like and attracts from lighter pastel palettes that replicate Marie Antoinette’s choice for youth and femininity and powerful daring photographs of yellow and black. In ‘Marie Antoinette goes to Liverpool’ the designer experiments with various proportions of waspy waistlines and bouffant skirts, mixing these basic silhouettes with fashionable Liverpudlian twists. The prints from this assortment have been created from household photos of MacDowell, his mom and grandmother of their childhood years, drawing on the ingredient of non-public storytelling that’s integral to his design follow.

The JCA MA Graduates in vogue entrepreneurship in design and model innovation displaying their collections included Angels Wear Nada – an inclusive up-cycled denim model, collaborative artwork undertaking and experimental occasion house based by Noon Khouri; Melissa Kate – a demi-couture label that mixes themes of Hollywood Glamour, rock’n’roll and spirituality to create the look of the fashionable pin-up; Size-A – a uniquely designed label for petite girls by Annabelle Barton; and Sophie Park – a plant primarily based, gender-neutral footwear model bringing a spread of modern designs and concepts to the market.

“Our London Fashion Week show has been a momentous occasion for us all at the JCA. Since officially opening our doors only one year ago in September 2021 we have nurtured our first graduating MA cohort from our home on Hanover Square. Opening our doors to the public one year on has been the perfect moment to celebrate the successes of these hugely talented designer entrepreneurs as they launch their new brands: Size-A, Melissa-Kate, Angels Wear Nada, Maryam Orchid and Sophie Park,” Stephen Smith, founder and CEO of the JCA, stated.

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