LONDON FASHION WEEK SS15

FASHION SCOUT ONES TO WATCH

This year during London Fashion Week Fashion Scout named Cassandra Verity Green, Min Wu, Keiko Nishiyama and Youjia Jin as its SS15 ‘Ones To Watch.’ Opening the first day of LFW the four designers showed their collections in a back-to-back format.

Cassandra Verity Green is a London based knitwear label starting as a Central Saint Martin’s graduate.  During the presentation of the collection we saw a theme throughout of fun colours, risky materials and sharp shapes. Cassandra Verity Green’s collection takes inspiration from personal experiences, emotions and memories resulting in her fun, innocent yet risky collection.

Keiko Nishiyama, born in Japan, was the second designer amongst the Ones To Watch. Using feminine yet modern cuts and draping the designer’s Japanese background showed through her designers in the form of hand-drawn prints in an array of soft lavish colours. Aladdin-style flat shoes in dusty whites and forest tones completed the outfits as they took down the catwalk.

Chinese designer Min Wu was third in line presenting a colourful and playful collection. Graduating from London College of Fashion only last year, Min Wu has been working endlessly to produce her collection to her best standard for her aimed audience. Throughout the collection there was a sense of 90’s fashion with flatform wedged sandals while the lengths of skirts and dresses were flirty and playful – matching headgear completed each look.

Last we had Youjia Jin, a Chinese born London based fashion designer. Some may say Jin’s collection was a little more minimal compared to the other ‘Ones To Watch’ designers – though Youjia Jin’s SS15 collection specified in detail with hand-drawn prints on fabrics. The collection had a unisex theme with looks border lining between masculine and feminine shapes.

Words by Karis Levy
Photography by Karis Levy