This month, London’s Central Saint Martins school—one of the globe’s best fashion training grounds—leaves its long-held Charing Cross Road building and moves to a new complex on Kings Cross. Style.com reporter Katharine Zarrella spoke with some of the school’s most distinguished alumni about their memories of the Soho space, running throughout the week. Today, Christopher [...]

This month, London’s Central Saint Martins school—one of the globe’s best fashion training grounds—leaves its long-held Charing Cross Road building (pictured) and moves to a new complex on Kings Cross. Style.com reporter Katharine Zarrella spoke with some of the school’s most distinguished alumni about their memories of the Soho space, running throughout the week. Today, [...]

This month, London’s Central Saint Martins school—one of the globe’s best fashion training grounds—leaves its long-held Charing Cross Road building and moves to a new complex on Kings Cross. Style.com reporter Katharine Zarrella spoke with some of the school’s most distinguished alumni about their memories of the Soho space, running throughout the week. Today, Hussein [...]

There’s a phrase, ‘all fur coat and no knickers,’” says Louise Wilson, the feared and revered director of the MA fashion course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. “Saint Martins has always concentrated on the knickers.” Home to one of the best fashion schools in the world, Central Saint Martins has quite [...]

“Have a listen. This is educational,” screamed Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker before playing to a rowdy crowd at Friday night’s farewell celebration to Central Saint Martins College’s buildings on Charing Cross Road. A CSM graduate, Cocker, whose song “Common People” was famously written about one of his classmates, was just as nostalgic as the [...]

You had to reconsider your notions about the crotchety and crocheted Afghan throw after it showed up in both printed and actual knitted form on the runways of vastly different British designers Christopher Kane (above left) and Henry Holland (above center). That’s just one example of the subverted Anglican heritage thread running through the London [...]

Before Gareth Pugh was Gareth Pugh, he was faced with a choice: to study sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art or enter the legendary fashion program at Central Saint Martins. As you know, Pugh chose fashion. But in the years since, the designer has made a routine of conflating art and fashion, to [...]

“Classical music has been a long-time passion of mine, and it’s struggling to survive,” concert pianist Sugar Vendil told us last night after a sold-out concert at the Nabi Gallery in Chelsea. “I wanted to find a way to promote it to a hip, downtown crowd.” Vendil’s resulting brainchild, the Nouveau Classical Project, brings music [...]

Spadgermatazz? That’s the name Annalisa Dunn and Dorothee Hagemann gave to their Fall ‘09 Cooperative Designs collection. But what on earth does “spadgermatazz” mean? “Our friend Amy Gwatkin, ’spadgermatazz’ is the name of her blog,” explained Hagemann after the Cooperative Designs show at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout space in London’s Chelsea on Tuesday. “But it’s [...]

Central Saint Martins has developed some of the world’s great talents—Alexander McQueen, Phoebe Philo, and John Galliano, to name a few. But its runway show—one of the hottest tickets of the week—doesn’t do things traditionally. All that talent comes with a lot of noisy fans, which has turned the show into one of London’s most [...]