01.5b. In Conversation with Jess Totten: Costume Design Graduate, Textiles Specialist

This is the second part of my conversation with designer Sam Lambert: one half of artistic collective Art Comes First. In our conversation Sam and I discuss the importance of travel and culture within the design process. Sam also shares his career challenges and highlights. 💫 Check Out Art Comes First on Instagram: @artcomesfirst Follow Sam: @blackgypsies Art Comes First website: https://www.artcomesfirst.com/shop Subscribe to our newsletter for more tips, stories and personal recounts of the fashion design process: http://eepurl.com/hc95LL Follow us on Instagram: @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast Questions, sponsorships and guest suggestions? Send me an email at [email protected].

For this episode I caught up with Sam Lambert, one half of artistic collective Art Comes First. In our conversation Sam shares his maverick journey into fashion. We discuss his creative practice, storytelling within fashion and photography, traveling, culture and collaboration. 💫 Check Out Art Comes First on Instagram: @artcomesfirst Art Comes First website: https://www.artcomesfirst.com/shop Subscribe to our newsletter for more tips, stories and personal recounts of the fashion design process: http://eepurl.com/hc95LL Follow us on Instagram: @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast Questions, sponsorships and guest suggestions? Send me an email at [email protected].

I caught up with Odunayo Ojo, aka Ayo from The Fashion Archive YouTube channel. I first came across Ayo’s YouTube channel during my second year at university. Even though I was studying Fashion Design full-time I felt that there was more about fashion history and business that I didn’t know and watching The Fashion Archive videos helped fill in some of the gaps. For the second part of our conversation we discuss the importance of fashion history for both designers and journalists, fashion marketing and how a career in Fashion can be just as good as a career in Medicine or Engineering (talking to our African parents 😉).   Check Out Ayo on Instagram: @fashionroadman @thefashionarchivemag  The Fashion Archive YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFashionArchive  I would love to hear from you and any thoughts you may have surrounding the topics discussed, please drop me a dm or a comment on the podcast Instagram @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast, or leave me a review if you’re listening from Apple podcast  Share the episode if you’ve learnt something new or if you feel like the episode would be good for someone you know. Send me an email at [email protected]. Subscribe to our newsletter for more tips, stories and personal recounts of the fashion design process: http://eepurl.com/hc95LL Follow us on Instagram: @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast

I caught up with Odunayo Ojo, aka Ayo from The Fashion Archive YouTube channel. I first came across Ayo’s YouTube channel during my second year at university. Even though I was studying Fashion Design full-time I felt that there was more about fashion history and business that I didn’t know and watching The Fashion Archive videos helped fill in some of the gaps. In this episode we discuss Ayo’s story so far, Fashion Journalism and fashion in general. Ayo also shares with us some of his plans for his upcoming magazine launch, The Fashion Archive Mag. Check Out Ayo on Instagram: @fashionroadman @thefashionarchivemag The Fashion Archive YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFashionArchive I would love to hear from you and any thoughts you may have surrounding the topics discussed, please drop me a dm or a comment on the podcast Instagram @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast, or leave me a review if you’re listening from Apple podcast Share the episode if you’ve learnt something new or if you feel like the episode would be good for someone you know. Send me an email at [email protected]. Subscribe to our newsletter for more tips, stories and personal recounts of the fashion design process: http://eepurl.com/hc95LL Follow us on Instagram: @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast

Part 2:  For this episode I caught up with Jess Totten a Wimbledon College of the Arts graduate who specialised in Costume Design. We discuss her transition from an Arts and Design Foundation to a Costume Design degree, and what it is like working within the film and theatre industry. Questions, sponsorships and guest suggestions? Send me an email at [email protected]. Subscribe to our newsletter for more tips, stories and personal recounts of the fashion design process: http://eepurl.com/hc95LL Follow us on Instagram: @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast  Check Out Jess on Instagram: @jess_totten Jess' Graduate Showcase: https://graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk/projects/4776/textile-artist-within-costume-jess-totten/cover

For this episode I caught up with Jess Totten a Wimbledon College of the Arts graduate who specialised in Costume Design. We discuss her transition from an Arts and Design Foundation to a Costume Design degree, and what it is like working within the film and theatre industry. Questions, sponsorships and guest suggestions? Send me an email at [email protected]. Subscribe to our newsletter for more tips, stories and personal recounts of the fashion design process: http://eepurl.com/hc95LL Follow us on Instagram: @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast Check Out Jess on Instagram: @jess_totten Jess' Graduate Showcase: https://graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk/projects/4776/textile-artist-within-costume-jess-totten/cover 

It has been a really loooong minute since I last dropped an episode, but we are back!  Before the season continues, I thought I’d drop a short episode on the podcast art: What is it? and What does it mean to me?  Would love to know what you think, share your thoughts on Instagram  @iwenttofashionschoolpodcast

In this episodes Nyheke tells her story of studying fashion design, switching to become an intern and freelancer, to eventually starting and running her namesake company, Nyheke Lambert LTD. She also shares how individuals with ideas can enquire her services to help "Bring Ideas to Life" ! Check out her work on Instagram at @nyhekelambert Interested in her services!? Visit,  www.nyhekelambert.com  

For this episode me and Rana Mohamed talk about how our creative practices can be used to understand our culture and history, and also shed light on difficult experiences.

In this Episode Rana share her journey to fashion design and how she uses her design practice to study her culture and heritage. She discusses in detail her inspiration for her graduate collection, the design process and the opportunity to showcase her collection as an installation for The XYZexchange class of 2020 exhibition.  Check out her work on Instagram at @r.official___