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GRADUATE
FASHIONWEEK:
WHAT HAPPENS
ONCETHE SHOW
IS OVER? CORRINE
MCCONNACHIE
SPEAKS TOA
NUMBER OF
STUDENTS AND
EXPLORES THE
PREDICAMENTS
FACING FASHION
GRADUATES IN
THE CURRENT JOB
MARKET.
A
fter the mortar boards have
been tossed in the air, and
the champagne has been
drunk, the celebration is
very much over for today’s
graduates. For the 340,000
graduates entering the job market this year
competition is incredibly high, especially in
the fast paced, teeming fashion industry.
With statistics showing more than 200,000
graduates out of work since leaving
university last year, how does the class of
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PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA MCKINNON
2012
plan to break into an industry already
brimming with talent?
The Bite Magazine visited Graduate
Fashion Week, the event famed for
kick starting the career of Burberry’s
Christopher Bailey, to speak to students
from a variety of fashion based courses
about their university experience, feelings
on graduation and plans for the future.
Each of the 42 British universities which
showcased at the annual event had provided
their students with the skills essential to
industry survival but how prepared do
graduates really feel for life outside the
university bubble?
University of Northumbria menswear
designer, Charlotte Sowerby said, “After all
the excitement and all the hard work it feels
strange to graduate.You wonder what am I
going to do now, what is the next chapter
going to be?” Lauren Donachie, Fashion
Design graduate from Cleveland College
of Art said, “I cried after we handed our
work in; graduating is scary. I really hope