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Spotlight on: Graduate Fashion Week

Spotlight on: Graduate Fashion Week

Graduate Fashion Week is the world’s leading fashion event for up-and-coming design talent, showcasing the work of more than 1000 talented students and graduates from universities around the world. A stronghold of creativity, Graduate Fashion Week features 22 catwalk shows and 30,000 guests each June. We met three stand-out students from Bath Spa University, who told…

Spotlight on Benjamin Von Wong: Part 1 – Inspiration and Evolution

Spotlight on Benjamin Von Wong: Part 1 – Inspiration and Evolution

Benjamin Von Wong is known the world over for his epic, hyper-realistic photography. A passionate collaborator, with a belief in sharing his work with others, he is as well known for his behind-the-scenes videos and blogs as for his uniquely brilliant photographs themselves. Notorious for his desire to overcome seeming impossibilities, Benjamin uses his engineering…

Interview with Make-up and Hair Artist Faye Smith

Interview with Make-up and Hair Artist Faye Smith

Faye Smith is the owner and lead artist at Faye Smith Make-up & Hair, a Vancouver-based team of highly-skilled and experienced make-up and hair stylists. Faye has been a qualified make-up and hair artist since 2007, bringing her skills from England to Canada in 2008 where she found her passion.

Interview with model Carina Tyrrell, Miss England 2014

Interview with model Carina Tyrrell, Miss England 2014

Carina Tyrrell isn’t your typical Miss World contestant – she has a first-class medical degree from Cambridge, years of humanitarian aide experience, and big ambitions to use her beauty and brains to tackle global heath issues.

Interview with Beauty Photographer Alistair Cowin

Interview with Beauty Photographer Alistair Cowin

Alistair Cowin is one of the most accomplished fashion and beauty photographers in the business, with a string of high profile fashion clients, having lived in LA, Miami, the South of France, and now back in his native UK. He has shot someone of the world’s most photographed women, including Caprice, Charlize Theron, and Cameron Diaz.

Partnership with Safe Model

Partnership with Safe Model

Announcing our latest partnership, with UK organisation “Safe Model”. Their mission is to help make modelling a safer industry, through providing information and education.

Video Interview with Model Sohaila Lindheim

Video Interview with Model Sohaila Lindheim

Sohaila Lindheim has been a model for 10 years, working across Europe and the Middle East, and covering catwalk shows to commercial shoots, as well as freelance work. Hear her advice for new models, and her insights into agency work versus freelance work.

Oscar De La Renta Tribute

Oscar De La Renta Tribute

Treasured couturier Oscar De La Renta sadly passed away a few days ago. Never swayed by trends or the social attitude towards the way that women should look, De La Renta upheld his own opinions on style and became the go-to designer for frothy, full-skirted ballgowns, streamlined evening dresses and intricately delicate bridal wear.