The Central Saint Martins 2022 Grads Breaking Boundaries

Central Saint Martins 2022 had a double-decker runway, 115 student collections, and even Madonna in the front row. The Central Saint Martins fashion class of 2022 was a fiercely uplifting myriad of mobile sculptures, vibrant colours, and outward Gen Z thinking.

The wide variations of 3D shapes kept coming: huge hoods and horizontal four-foot wide head-dresses, kites, spiralling cages, cylinders, panniers, hoops, and wadded, padded and pointy structures made out of everything from crochet to bioplastic. Is it a generational revolution against two years of being imprisoned at home that has forced the students' creativity to experiment with techniques to express their very own fantasies?

Together they sent fashion’s normalcy of ‘oversize’ wear into a completely different dimension.

A look by first runner-up Emil Dernbach, BA Fashion Womenswear

Diana Sträng , BA Fashion Design with Marketing, picked up the second runner-up prize for her trio of looks

The three winners of the L’Oréal Professional Young Talent Award certainly reflected that originality. Winners: Emil Dernbach with his sleek sculptural silver metal dress, Diana Sträng, and Alice Morrell-Evans with their use of knitwear, crochet, textiles and drapery. If you’re searching for a place where boundaries are always pushed to their limits and creativity is expressed to its depth, be assured that Central Saint Martins is the right place for you. 

There’s certainly more than meets the eye to many of the looks that appeared on the runway. Mata Durikovic made a pastel-coloured collection that included a sparkle-trimmed plastic mac, made out of bioplastic. Durikovic wanted to make garments that were “cookable at home, also edible and degradable in your garden!”.

Mata Durikovic grew a bio-plastic ‘leather’ herself

Paulo Guarino wanted to capture his “Sicilian heritage through the queer lenses [that he] developed in London”. He smothered his group of models in other-worldly textural paints and plaster in which they then exuded a cloud of powder at the end of the runway. Guarino’s aimed to make his people look like crumbling sculptures in an abandoned Sicily, and succeeded.

Paulo Guarino’s model at the end of the runway exuding a cloud of powder

This cohort of students pulled off a transformative unique vision of promise for the future. They subverted the norm and created a new view of the world through their very own lenses. After almost an hour of watching this spectacle of fashion, the audience still lingered and congratulated the CSM teachers and students. It is safe to say the class of 2022 triumphed, with many great and refreshing minds entering the fashion world. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for this new batch of designers. 

Madonna and FKA twigs in the front row

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Edited by Thomas Bracken