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Saint Martins finds itself out of fashion

By Hilary Alexander Fashion Director, The Daily Telegraph

“Central St Martins, the London fashion college that produced Britain's brightest design talents of the last decade, lost its place on the cutting edge at Graduate Fashion Week last night.
It was usurped dramatically by Westminster University in a show that featured the work of only 17 students, compared with CSM's roll-call of forty BA graduates.
The clothes were rambunctious, took no prisoners in terms of design, taking inspiration from Tokyo's wild Shinjuku and Harajuku districts, Sixties Pop-Art, the Union Jack and punk rock.

In comparison, the show by Central Saint Martins, whose old boy roll call includes the mavericks-turned-millionaires John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, resembled a vicarage fete.

"This is what British fashion is really about,'' said Christopher Bailey, Westminster graduate and now creative director of Burberry.” It was rebellious, rude and individual. Most fashion colleges are too afraid to shock.”