Stuart Vevers

Stuart Vevers graduated from Westminster in 1996. His first job was at Calvin Klein followed by Bottega Veneta, Givenchy and Louis Vuitton where he worked with Marc Jacobs. He joined Mulberry as Creative Director in 2005 and has been instrumental in the company's success, transforming their leather goods into into the must-have 'It' handbags of the season.

He has also collaborates with Luella Bartley and Designer of the Year, Giles Deacon. In 2006, he won the British Fashion Council's Accessory Designer of the Year award, In september 2007 he became creative director for Loewe.

What was the most useful thing you learned from the Fashion Design course at Westminster?

Really it was that fashion was about hard work. And I changed a lot while I was there. My style and taste when I left was very different to when I arrived - more grown up, more aware of the world and of fashion.

I think that's a direct influence of Westminster because my friends who went to different colleges didn't show such a big change. It was because all the tutors were very experienced and we had great external people who came in to talk to us, like Galliano, Chalayan and Nicholas Knightley.