Clare Buckley is course leader BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production and an established fashion stylist and creative director and has worked with the language of clothes, objects and materials within the fashion industry for over ten years as a fashion editor and stylist for publications including Russh, Wallpaper* and the Guardian: Weekend magazine In both womenswear and menswear, alongside advertising, music, celebrity and film work. Her interest focuses on curated aesthetic and a colour-based enquiry with an investigation into styling language against multidisciplinary platforms and productions. Her work encourages the sensorial and emotionality of fashion and styling language and the spirit conveyed behind all visual productions and stories against a wider fashion landscape. In collaborative mode her work leads projects for students, staff and industry as part of a programme of public speaking, workshops and festivals such as EIFF Festival 2016, 2014, Vogue Ukraine Fashion 2016 Business Art & Design Conference and 2014 Linder & Tate St Ives Hepworth & The Arts Ball, alongside collaborating internationally within styling, art directing and producing fashion editorials. She has styled celebrity clients such as Paloma Faith, Siouxie Sioux, Julie Delphy, David Tenant, Sophie Hunt, and Sophie Ellis Bextor. She has over 8 years-experience within creative arts higher arts within styling & production. Clare Buckley is the co-author of International styling textbook Basics Fashion Design 08: Styling.
Karen Savage is senior lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production, a designer, stylist, trend forecaster, creative director, blogger and artist with a wealth of experience. Karen came on the scene in the early 1990’s with her own critically-acclaimed fashion label, SAVAGE, garnering extensive media coverage for her controversial slogan t-shirts. Karen has worked with many clients over the years including Absolut Vodka, BBC3, Directory of Social Change, Exposure PR, Hotel Pelirocco, Mobile 3, Nokia, Ogilvy and Mather, Taiwan Textile Federation, The Fawcett Society, The Observer and Traid. She is currently a freelance creative director in print and licensing for the UK high street and independent market. Karen holds a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning, has been a visiting fellow at The Hong Kong Design Institute, and is a recent recipient of the UAL Teaching Award.
Dr. Manrutt Wongkaew is a lecturer in Fashion Styling and Production. A vibrant creative practitioner, he is an experienced stylist, creative director, and choreographer working across the fields of fashion and dance. His research examines the interrelationships between fashion, fabrics, modern dance, and the bodies that set all of these into motion. His media publications and features include Vogue, British GQ, The Guardian and Dylan Jone’s new book, London Sartorial: Men’s Style from Street to Bespoke.Manrutt also works with local communities and charitable organisations, such as Oxfam and Barnardo’s. He delivers applied fashion styling workshops as a therapeutic practice to a wide range of audience from children in foster care to adults with learning disabilities and male inmates. His TEDx talk and BBC interview highlight holistic approach to art pedagogy which aims to support and develop the next generation of creative artists, to build a healthier and more sustainable industry.
Itai Doron is the programme Director for Fashion Media courses. He is an established photographer with particular interests in fashion, portraiture, social documentary, body politics, identity and queer theory. Working as a lens-based artist since graduation from Goldsmiths College of Art, Itai has twice received the UAL research project award to develop a body of work on immigration, combining social documentary with notions of fashion. Itai has a proven track record of public dissemination of visual and written work through exhibitions, publications, and academic research and was invited to deliver talks and lectures about his research at various international academic conferences. He has exhibited at the White Cube gallery in London, and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the UK, Europe, Japan, Israel and the United States. He has authored a selection of photography books, including End Of Real in 2005, Yassin in 2009, Chokras’ Mahal (Boys' Palace) in 2011, and Fifteen Minutes With You in 2012.
Sarah May is lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production and fashion set designer, props stylist and artist. Her work focuses on the styled aesthetic and is situated and produced across international multi -platforms. Trained as a fine artist specialising in sculpture and installation, she has a natural intuition for harmonising elements and for using shape and movement within diverse spatial contexts. Key themes within her practice are based around the physicality of the body, how the body and fashion encounter space and the intimate relationship between materials. Establishing her creative studio in 2007, she has an extensive commercial and editorial client list including British Vogue, Vice, Dazed and Confused, Japanese Vogue, Details, Arena Homme Plus, Camper, Paul Smith, Coca Cola, Selfridges, Nike and American Apparel. She was represented worldwide by Industry Art for eight years and then by The Magnet Agency for two years. Her public speaking, fashion film workshops and charity work clients include The British Council, Its Nice That and Arts Emergency. She has been profiled in numerous magazines and has self published two books. www.sarahmaystudio.com
Philip Scurrah is lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production whose fashion styling and photographic portfolio as fashion editor and director at national and international magazine titles range from the pioneering global lifestyle Wallpaper* magazine, fashion directorship of Selfridges magazine to fashion director of independent Australian style bible Russh. His worldwide industry expertise has been garnered for catwalk shows and season presentations throughout Europe, Australia and India. Philip’s extensive styling experience also developed an innovative and integrated approach to contemporary photographic image making. His former photographic partnership with Alessandra Kila, working as ‘Kila & Rusharc’ received universal media coverage, most recently featured in the group exhibition ‘Altering Space’ at The SouthWest School of Art in North America (2014). The practitioners also received a Honourable Mention at the International Photography Awards (2014). Now working independently Philip continues to creatively direct and produce for a range of International clients.
Thom Murphy is associate lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production. Thom Murphy is an established fashion stylist, art director, brand consultant and casting director, working predominantly within the realm of contemporary men’s fashion. His editorial work, produced in conjunction with photographers such as David Sims and Alasdair McLellan has been regularly featured within the pages of international, prestigious style publications including, among others: i-D, Dazed, Arena Homme Plus, Another Man and Self Service. In 2009, Thom set up New Power Studio, a Menswear label. New Power Studio designs arise from a mix of conceptual and pop culture-referencing approaches, and combine sportswear and tailoring, turning it into something new and experimental. This has so far encompassed New Power Studio showing on schedule at London Fashion Week’s MAN day across the past six seasons, and being awarded New Generation. His work had also been featured in two books published by Taschen, Fashion Now and Fashion Now 2; he has shown his work at the V&A, London, as part of their Imperfect Beauty exhibition. From the outset of New Power Studio being launched in February 2009, industry support has been substantial and extremely enthusiastic.
Itai Doron is the programme Director for Fashion Media courses. He is an established photographer with particular interests in fashion, portraiture, social documentary, body politics, identity and queer theory. Working as a lens-based artist since graduation from Goldsmiths College of Art, Itai has twice received the UAL research project award to develop a body of work on immigration, combining social documentary with notions of fashion. Itai has a proven track record of public dissemination of visual and written work through exhibitions, publications, and academic research and was invited to deliver talks and lectures about his research at various international academic conferences. He has exhibited at the White Cube gallery in London, and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the UK, Europe, Japan, Israel and the United States. He has authored a selection of photography books, including End Of Real in 2005, Yassin in 2009, Chokras’ Mahal (Boys' Palace) in 2011, and Fifteen Minutes With You in 2012.
Visiting practitioners include:
- Clare Copland - Fashion Show Producer
- Siobhan Farrar - Art Director and Fashion Consultant
- Dr. Rosie Findlay - Fashion Theorist
- Sarah May - Set Designer, Prop Stylist and Artist
- Loukia Minetou - Conceptual Theatre and Costume Designer
- Rafael Perez Evans - Artist, Stylist and Producer
- Caroline Stevenson – Curator and Writer
- Danny Treacy - Artist and Fine Art Photographer
Industry Guest Speakers include:
- Christopher Shannon - Fashion Designer and Stylist
- Andreas Larson - Fashion Photographer
- Rottingdean Bazaar- James Buck and Luke Brooks
- Nancy Rhodes - Fashion Stylist and Consultant
- Amy Gwatkin- Fashion Film maker
- Leonard Herrmann - Art Director
- Daniel Nørregard & Guillaume Chuard - Art Director and Design Studio
- Emma Macfarlane- Fashion Stylist
- Ellie Tsatsou - Film maker and Photographer
- Jenny Dyson- Creative Consultant
- Bryonny Lloyd- Creative Director, Antenne Books
- Patrick Waugh- Head of Brand Creative and Content at TopShop and founder of BOYO Studio
- Patrick Grey- Head of delivery at Wednesday Creative Agency
- Louise Naunton- Morgan – Co founder of STSQ Design Agency
