Norwich wins at Graduate Fashion Week 2024

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Norwich wins at Graduate Fashion Week 2024

A crowded indoor venue with people sitting on both sides of a runway, watching a fashion event. At the end of the runway, there is a large screen displaying "Norwich University of the Arts." The audience is engaged, with some clapping and others taking photos.

A group of people are gathered in an indoor space, observing exhibits and displays on various topics. Several walls feature colourful posters and information boards. The room has a high ceiling with industrial-style lighting and beams.

A fashion model walks down the runway wearing a dark green and white outfit with black boots and a headband. The audience, seated on both sides, watches attentively. There's a display screen in the background with the text Lillie Westgate.

Published: Monday 17 June 2024

A group of people are gathered in an indoor space, observing exhibits and displays on various topics. Several walls feature colorful posters and information boards. The room has a high ceiling with industrial-style lighting and beams.

BA (Hons) Fashion Communication and Promotion

Zara Tuck won The Terry Mansfield Fashion Publication Award for her project, Once Girls. Zara Tuck said:

“For my final project, I created Once Girls magazine to provide comfort to young girls aged 13-17 and help them to navigate their most formative years. I noticed a decline in teen culture in recent years; often, media is created about teenage girls, but not for them. I especially felt that young girls are heavily underserved by fashion publications and I wanted to change this. The publication is created for Gen-Z, by Gen-Z: this deliberate approach was chosen to ensure each piece of content resonates authentically with the target audience. Through collaborating with diverse Gen-Z creatives, Once Girls provides an array of perspectives on the topic of girlhood.”

BA (Hons) Fashion

Lillie Westgate won the Norwich University of the Arts Fashion Presentation and her collection went onto exhibit in the Best of Graduate Fashion Week 2024. Lillie Westgate said:

“The Shoe Makers is a graduate collection centred around the rich trade and shoe making history within Norfolk and Norwich. The collection is heavily inspired by traditional, minimalistic workwear mixed with the use of durable and timeless fabrics. The story portrayed through the collection imagines what a working family would have worn when making a living in shoe factories in the early to mid 1900s, intertwining classic silhouettes with a natural modernistic design aesthetic to tie the past and present together. The collection holds nostalgic tones, reminiscing upon the never forgotten history of our fine city, Norwich.”