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Luis Lopez Smith

"HAHA BANG BANG ‘Season- deep winter of discontent.’ Luis is a cuddly/moody Welsh bear-child, and went to school with the Anglesey vampire killer before studying fashion at Manchester. His polychromatic menswear collection HAHA BANG BANG should herald an urban revival in Napoleonic streetwear, bringing the militant elegance of 19th-century French marching bands to London’s grimiest parties. These luridly knitted jumpsuits and jackets are designed for dancing, for laughing, for bringing everyone together in a loved-up future dictatorship. Here is Luis’s presentation in which three superstar perfume heroes defeat a three-headed fashion monster…"

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Mason Jung

"Sartorial Burden - My inspiration is based on the antipathy towards formal wear for its fossilised forms and attributes of restricting individuality. The antipathy comes from personal experience of restricted life in school and army in Korea where I was forced to wear uniforms, have same hair style and even same life style. The collection is about questioning the general perception of clothing and showing how to identify individuality from stereotypes. I have made transforming clothes from ordinary forms to liberal forms and created typical looking garments with unusual ways of construction to suggest a diversion of conception."