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Going for Gold By David Hayes - Evening Standard 7 June 2005

The battle lines were drawn on the second day of Graduate Fashion Week. Just who would be in the running for River Island's Gold Award, to be handed out at the gala ceremony tomorrow? The chances are that a student or two from our very own University of Westminster will make the final cut.

Had the thought of the £20,000 prize money brought out the fighting spirit from the London college? It certainly looked like it. Kelli Memory took the more romantic, but nonetheless deadly, "warrior princess" route - all thigh-high boots, stiff leather corsets and even a vicious-looking diamanté sword.

Thankfully, it wasn't all hard-edged aggression at the Westminster show. Kristy Millward ran up an equality exotic delight that mixed sheepskin with shaved fur and bronze taffeta. But it was Jihye Yang who took the softly-softly approach to the limit. Jihye strung together kimonos out of tiedtogether feather-filled cushions and scattered padded skirts with a patchwork of delicate florals