This month we unveil our new Window Exhibition ‘That’s So CSM’.
The irresistible gravitational pull of London’s Central Saint Martins is written in its name. For its present and future pupils striving to find their coveted footing within the creative industries, there are few other academic institutions that merit a pilgrimage. Upon arrival, one’s first eye contact with the building certainly holds up to these grand hopes. In a vision of steel, concrete, and glass, the exposed corridors of the college’s King’s Cross campus wrap around its skyline-topped atrium. Like perfectly machined ledges, they hang over the long ‘Street’, the main hub linking an enviable roster of factory-like departments. At various peak hours throughout the day, all stream out of their factions and into the mayhem of near collisions and chats on the stairs, an intermingling that is as productive as it is exhilarating.
Within this cutting-edge cultural forum, the BA and MA degrees in FashionDesign are arguably CSM’s most notorious feature and the face of its uncompromising experimental standards. At Saint Martin’s, the influence of fashion is channeled every day through its academic population.
Students, tutors, and members of staff equally rejoice in colour-matching, texture, shape, jewellery, makeup, and hairstyling, with attitude to boot. Each pairing is limited only by the individual’s willingness to put themselves forth to the fullest extent. At its core, the pursuit of self-determination at CSM is led by a Fine Art refrain: everything is and must be seen, as possible.
The exhibition is open 10 am - 7 pm streetside every day at VFD, 66 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 7XB.
Text by Francesco Oneto
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Photographer: Bálint Álovits - https://balintalovits.com
UV Ink on Aluminium Composite Panel 120 x 80 cm
With thanks to:
Lina Sophie Stallmann for organizing the loan of the works to be shown at VFD please contact linastallmann@yahoo.de
Foundation
2019 / UV Ink on Aluminium Composite Panel 120 x 80 cm
Fashion Design Womenswear
2019
PDP
2019 / UV Ink on Aluminium Composite Panel 120 x 90 cm