Each of these intricately smocked and hand manipulated garments are all the works of the talented Swedish designer Helena Hörstedt. I fell in love with her garments as soon as I set eyes on them. she is definitely another insanely creative designer to come from Beckmans School of design which also gave us the likes of the knitwear extraordinaire Sandra Backlund.

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This years winner of Graduate Fashion Week is Myrto Samou from UCA Rochester. Her simplistic and chic collection wowed the judges and she walked away with the gold award. Congratulations to Myrto Samou and also to all of the other graduates from this years shows, the standard has been unbelievable this year. The bar has definately been raised.

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I have always been a fan of big exaggerated and unpractical fashion, for example Sandra Backlund or Gareth Pugh creations. The crazier the better. Iris Van Herpen’s work is just outstanding and insane. It seems as if she picks a technique or a certain look and just times it by a thousand to create these magnificent highly detailed garments.

This is her more recent Autumn Winter collection entitled “Mummification”. I love the use of the shoe lace tied all around the body, it reminds me of an old collection by Bora Aksu where he used the same technique. The photo-shoot just captures the beauty of this collection completely.

I really can’t wait to see what she does next. To see more of her collection visit her website here: http://www.irisvanherpen.com

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Jemma Sykes is an award winning knitwear designer and a graduate from the Royal College of Art. This dress seems to have been a bit of a love hate topic that I have covered in the past on my own blog but I personally Absolutely love it.

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I was absolutely blown away when I saw one of Irina Shaposhnikova’s knitted pieces in Russian Vogue. She is about to graduate from the MA at Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts this coming June, so You won’t have to wait long to see more of her highly anticipated knitted creations.

These pieces are from her last collection at the Academy of arts. I can’t speak for anyone else but I definitely haven’t seen knit like this before. The cables are sewn onto almost invisible nylon mesh giving a knitted cabled cage affect.

For more information on Irina go here.