The RCA MA Graduate Show happens to be one of the most influential places to discover up and coming fashion designers and thanks to Dazed Digital we get a preview of the RCA's Class of 2009. Featuring 36 MA students in menswear, womenswear, footwear and accessories, the graduates all hope to receive such praise and influence as former alumni Ossie Clark, Philip Treacy, and Christopher Bailey. Taking place at the College in Henry Moore Gallery on June 10, thanks to DD we get an early sneak preview of what this years class has to offer.
"This collection is my fantastical vision and of a gang called ‘The Sixth Sun’. The Sixth Sun gang is a Mexican biker gang that has reverted to ancient Mayan/Aztec beliefs and rituals after realizing that their ancestors had predicted the future."
-Alex Mattson
View more of the class of 2009 after the jump.
"This collection embodies the rebirth of a destroyed civilisation - playing on the moral - 'to continue living the way we do will ultimately lead to our undoing'." All the fabrics and materials used in the collection are recycled, reclaimed, by-products or are eco-friendly."
-Charlie Ross
"Sartorial Burden - My inspiration is based on the antipathy towards formal wear for its fossilised forms and attributes of restricting individuality."
-Mason Jung
"Referencing both the anatomical drawings of Vesalius and the eroticism of Hokusai, the collection revolves around skin, sinew, muscle, and bone. It pumps sex back into a craft that has become lust-less, prompting arousal and addiction for men's knitwear by examining the relationship between seduction and repulsion."
-Kimchoong Wilkins
"The collection 'Masculinity and his jovial approach to the macabre', was born, laser cut polka dot bombs, dancing skeleton pique bibs, cute cable knitted skulls, unexploded pom poms, and engineered army boy digital prints, aesthetically cute with dark undertones."
-Mathew Miller
"This is the journey of my past-present-future of love. Ideas come from relationships, the first feeling of love and the colours associated with it, blue for man, yellow for woman, mix the two you get purple, but then what happens after love when a relationship breaks down? Is loving really that simple?"
-Jasper Sinchai Chaprajong
"I was inspired by the horrific facial injuries of World War I, where recognisable features were distorted and made abstract. I have taken other beautiful and natural forms like horses and birds and combined their organic shapes with geometric futuristic patterning. I wanted to create a collection that captured the aggression and sadness felt by these men."
-Bronwen Marshall
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