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While the rest of the UK's fashion students have to be content with an appearance at Graduate Fasion Week, Central Saint Martin's is the Oxbridge of fashion colleges. It alone enjoys the privilege of showing alongside some of the world's greatest designers at London Fashion Week. This year's graduate crop is particularly impressive: several collections balance creativity with commercial shrewdness. Grey and black dominate with many young designers opting for a pure grey or black colour palette. Kim Sunkyung presents a black and white story which plays with shape and cut: white plastic hipster belts on square black wool coats, cape dresses and monochrome sheath dresses. Tomek Sowacki's menswear also adopts a monochrome palette. His pieces elongate torsos and his exaggerated sleeves lengthen arms. The military detailing and simple tailoring make this a stylish and infinitely wearable collection. Lisa Landsburgh's exclusively grey knitwear is a commercial certainty which could have been designed for Jigsaw featuring soft knits in tank tops, vests and sexy chiffon panelling. Finally, Robert Cary-Williams' womenswear offers a total look - parachute fabric boiler suits and baggy trousers, bondage detailing and strait-jacket inspired outfits all work together to create a look vaguely reminiscent of Kate Bush in the 1980s.
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