HIGH fashion and rusty cars on the Outer Hebrides seem strange
bedfellows. But Jane Hayward, the only student in Scotland with a
Masters degree in fashion, combines the two. She finds inspiration for
her work in rusting metal set among the wild isolated environment of the
remote Scottish islands. ''I like the incongruity of something so modern
being left to rot amid the Hebridean landscape,'' says 23-year-old Jane.
She is one of four students at Edinburgh College of Art exhibiting
their final-year collection in a special exhibition, Masters of Design,
in the Sculpture Court of Edinburgh College of Art from Thursday until
December 21.
Jane says her work is ''of a synthetic nature'' and she has built her
collection around abstract prints on wool blankets, metallic, printed,
wet-look organza and weather-proofed performance fabrics. Blending the
old with the new, natural with man-made has resulted in some highly
innovative designs such as old wool blankets, recycled from charity
shops, and turned into jackets.
The work of other students include Fiona Nwaobi, who graduated with a
degree in architecture in Nigeria before coming to Edinburgh, film-maker
Sarah Gavron, who confronts issues of violence and homelessness, and
photographer Robert Gibb.
Meanwhile Edinburgh College of Art is to be congratulated in bringing
innovation into the traditional calendar format. All the pictures are
taken from the 1993 Degree Show and the calendar has been designed in
such a way that each month's image can be cut out and re-used as
postcards.
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