TOP 10 Istituto Marangoni London BA Fashion Graduates that you need to know
1. Anna Sheremetyeva
Originally from Siberia and now based in London, Anna Sher is a fashion designer whose work bridges the worlds of fashion, fine art, and emotional storytelling. With early roots in drawing and later experience in modelling, Anna’s creative journey has always centred on self-expression through the body. Her practice merges avantgarde, grunge, and punk aesthetics with intimate narratives exploring identity, trauma, mental health, and transformation.
Drawing from her fine art background, Anna constructs emotionally charged collections that blend surreal imagery with experimental silhouettes and upcycled materials. Her designs often repurpose discarded garments into intricate, handcrafted textiles turning the act of making into a meditative and healing process.
Anna’s work is deeply personal, reflecting psychological journeys of resilience and rebirth. Her multidisciplinary approach challenges the boundaries between visual art and fashion, resulting in pieces that are not only wearable, but emotionally resonant and conceptually profound.
Concept
Metamorphosis is a collection dedicated to a personal journey of transformation and sublimation overcoming borderline personality disorder and addiction.
The silhouettes, details, and fabric manipulations are inspired by the imagery of a cocoon and a caterpillar-the initial stages of a butterfly's metamorphosis. The garments combine voluminous elements with fitted shapes to create a contrast of form and structure reflecting the tension between chaos and control. The feature palette is grounded in dark, muted tones and achromatic shades, with an accidentally bright accent: a deep, bruised purple.
Each complex textile piece combining casual-wear fabrics such as nylon, jersey, cotton lining and ribbing with a glamour touch of sheer, flowing layers of organza and mesh pierce through the distressed denim and heavy knits, breaking the surface with a sense of fragility and contrast.
Yet the main focus of the collection’s materials is the textile crafted from upcycled garments sourced from secondhand stores, personal wardrobe and clothing donated by friends with over 60% of the collection made entirely from recycled fabrics. This approach not only supports sustainability but also adds layers of personal history and authenticity. There are two main intricate key techniques: hand-made denim patchwork built from hundreds of distressed, bleached, and dyed denim fragments forming chaotic, abstract compositions. Several looks also feature knitwear patchwork made from small scraps of various recycled knitwear assembled manually using overlocked seams, resulting in a textural narrative that is both tactile and raw.
In this collection multi-layered fabric manipulations reflect internal fragmentation , while the process of creating them serves as a sublimation of intense mental states. The designs serve to dark aesthetics, punk-gothic influences for an unapologetic self-expression.
2. Charlene Osmond
Originally from Indonesia, Charlene Osmond grew up captivated by the glamour of dressing up from styling Barbie dolls to admiring her mother’s wardrobe. it was her mother's encouragement that gave her the courage to pursue her creative path in fashion design. Charlene is a naturally sociable and intuitive designer, drawing creative energy from the people and places around her. Her design style is an emotive blend of femininity and sensuality, exploring themes of fragility, romanticism and drama.
Charlene’s work is marked by fluid construction and an instinctive storytelling approach, using garments to convey emotion and atmosphere. She specialises in draping directly on the mannequin, working organically to form silhouettes that reveal and reimagine the body. Favouring sheer, layered fabrics and mixed textures, she creates a decadent, delicate aesthetic that feels both timeless and contemporary.
Concept
This collection, Defining Seduction, is a curation of inspirations, merging a journey of defining seduction from movies, fashion icons, photography, and fleeting moments frozen in time. This design explores representations of Western feminine appearance and deception from the 50s to 70s, interpreting it through modern glamour.
The layered, sculpted tulle skirt is in homage to Marilyn Monroe’s sensual, iconic white dress moment. Structured with linen canvas and boning underneath the layers, the skirt creates an illusion of movement a whisper of glamour held in place. In a shorter version, the tulle skirt is dyed with coffee, creating a beautiful stain from an accidental spill.
To create silhouettes that are both revealing and withholding, a sheer black lace coat is fused with PVC and feathers.
On a wool jacket, tulle is appliquéd in untidy swirling motions, embodying a scene in Fellini’s movie where the seducer Casanova is caught in a passionate flee.
A long evening dress is embroidered with brass casting waste fragments, hand-stitched on tulle like blowing dust in the wind. These embellishments suggest that garments can carry beauty and memories, even when scattered and forgotten.
Each piece is designed through the tension of materials and details, grasping seduction itself creating an intimately suggestive and revealing, sensual collection.
3. Henry Archibald Crawford
Henry A. Crawford is a British designer whose unconventional journey into fashion began after an academic and professional background in physics. Having worked at the National Physical Laboratory in Leeds, Henry found the rigid, commercial nature of scientific work unfulfilling and turned to fashion as a way to embrace creativity, craftsmanship, and variety of expressions. Deeply inspired by physics, metaphysics, and existential philosophy as well as postmodern and sci-fi cinema like Blade Runner Henry brings a unique intellectual depth to his designs.
His style is structural and dramatic, blending contemporary classics with unconventional materials such as wood and leather to create bold, elaborate silhouettes. With a focus on maximalism in form and minimalism in details, his work combines complex pattern cutting, corsetry, and innovative draping. Guided by a scientific design approach, Henry's collections are a fusion of logic and imagination, where fashion becomes a dynamic and thought-provoking architecture of the body.
CONCEPT
This collection, Un Troisième Voyageur, is inspired by the terrifying ‘Fermi paradox’ the unsettling notion that, despite the abundant opportunity for life in a vast universe, we continue on alone.
The designs explore a hypothetical journey through a lonely cosmos in search of life. The cold weightless experience of space is expressed through loose garments draped over wire cage constructions and foundational corsets, allowing them to detach and float off the body. The palette consists of the natural tones of the celestial bodies encountered on this odyssey moon dust greys, dirty Saturn yellows, and deep Neptune blues drawn from the stunning photography by NASA’s space probes Voyager 1 and 2, the furthest man-made objects from earth.
Echoing the immense mass of the planets witnessed by this human expedition, the garments are made from heavy materials such as upholstery suades and worsted wools bonded to thick neoprenes. Despite their weight, these shapes orbit the models without touching them. The silhouettes reach outward encompassing the wearer, consuming the body and surrounding air invoking an isolating agoraphobia. These floating volumes and exaggerated features envelop the body, revealing it only from certain angles, framing the human form as vulnerable and insignificant, a fleeting existence in a vast indifferent universe.
However, despite their alien architecture, the outer garments retain a sense of familiarity. Traditional tailoring techniques and classic shirt details offer a hint of human sartorial heritage, a faint reminder of the delicate life at the heart of this concept. Furthermore, the corsets underneath remain nude, reaffirming vulnerability through exposed fragility. A contradiction to their intense construction, which constricts and limits the wearer’s movement. This culminates into an uncomfortable paradox, the palpable loneliness and the precious hope that encapsulates this collection.
4. Gaye Sahutogullari
Gaye Sahutoğulları from Turkey, began her creative path intending to study textile arts, but an unexpected shift led her into fashion design a detour that became a defining chapter in her journey. Her love for textiles and texture remains central to her practice, with every collection reflecting a deep appreciation for materiality and surface detail.
Gaye approaches fashion with a mindset rooted in optimism and curiosity, allowing the creative process to guide her rather than forcing outcomes. Her design ethos is best captured in three words: experimental, innovative, and brutal romantic. She is particularly skilled at working with unconventional and contrasting materials, combining them in unexpected ways to create pieces that are visually striking and conceptually bold.
Her garments often standing out for their originality and tactile intrigue, while always remaining deeply personal in their execution.
CONCEPT
The collection “Identity” draws from the concept of memento mori, reflecting on bodily decay as both a vessel of memory and a site of transformation. Each silhouette is crafted from hand-moulded latex, forming a semi-transparent second skin that clings to the body’s natural sinuosity.
Long, body hugging dresses with embedded synthetic hair and hand applied tattoos are paired with layered latex coats that echo the same detailing. The silhouettes follow the anatomy closely, but it is the textured surface that defines each piece. Latex is manipulated into a snake like texture and constructed through multiple hand-poured layers, with synthetic material embedded between suspended like preserved fragments of memory.
The palette draws from natural skin tones, with pink flesh hues that highlight intimacy and vulnerability. Referencing the symmetry of decalcomania, embedded strands form curved patterns reminiscent of butterfly wings in metamorphosis. Eyespot motifs appear as subtle protective illusions, while the tattoos act as permanent symbols of personal mythology.
These details are fused during the curing stage, forming a tactile and symbolic surface. The resulting biomorphic shapes are unique, reinforcing the idea of memory imprinted in skin.
Blending the harshness of material with the softness of movement, Identity embodies brutal romanticism where decay reveals beauty, and endings give rise to becoming.
5. Jinxuan Mao
Originally from China, Jinxuan Mao is a womenswear designer whose work fuses material experimentation with emotional depth. Her creative practice explores the theme of emotional resilience, using fashion as a means to process memory and psychological experience. Drawing inspiration from psychology, surreal sculpture, and nostalgia, Jinxuan crafts collections that evoke both tenderness and strength. Her designs are characterised by childlike textures, bold and exaggerated tailoring, and distinctive original prints, all developed to create a unique visual and tactile language.
She aims to form an emotional bond between garment and wearer, layering playfulness with introspection. Jinxuan’s work stands out for its thoughtful attention to fabric and form, and her ability to translate complex emotional states into wearable, expressive fashion. Each piece tells a playfull story one that invites curiosity, comfort, and connection.
CONCEPT
This collection, Echoes of Innocence, draws inspiration from the subconscious ways in which adults revert to childlike behaviors when under extreme stress.
Silhouettes shift between playful volume and distorted tailoring, reflecting the tension between innocence and responsibility. Gradient-dyed prints in vibrant primary colours intermingle to form a palette inspired by Edvard Munch’s The Scream, evoking hazy, nostalgic memories. Embroidery on the back of velvet suits references the surreal, sculptural expressions of struggle found in the work of Johnson Tsang.
Applied to an A-line dress, the experimental fabric techniques evoke the soft, airy textures of bubbles and balloons, giving the garment a sense of movement and a rounded silhouette that conveys innocence and playfulness. Layers of scrunched organza cascade around the body, offering a tactile refuge reminiscent of childhood sensory memories.
Simple in shape yet complex in technique, the pieces reflect the inner struggle between emotional instinct and the rational desire to ease psychological strain. The collection explores the fragile balance between emotional escape and the confrontation of reality. Designed for those who value texture and subtle narrative, it invites the wearer to embrace both vulnerability and strength.
6. Micaela Ismodes Sole
Micaela Ismodes Sole has been drawn to art and crafts since childhood. From a young age, she loved painting and drawing, as well as exploring beauty through makeup and fashion a combination that naturally led her toward the world of design.
She began her journey with a short fashion course, where she studied pattern cutting under a Peruvian designer. This experience introduced her to fashion as a serious discipline and sparked her passion for creating wearable pieces. From that moment, fashion design became her chosen path.
Micaela finds inspiration in classic films, but she is equally captivated by horror cinema and true crime podcasts. Her favorite show is American Horror Story, which reflects the dark, atmospheric aesthetic she often embraces.
Her personal style blends romantic and feminine elements such as soft silhouettes, sweet bows, delicate lace, and rich red hues with an edgy twist, often expressed through bold details like platform ballet shoes.
Deeply influenced by her cultural background, Micaela draws on Peruvian heritage not in a literal or traditional sense, but by exploring deeper meanings of identity and belonging.
Draping is one of her strongest skills, along with sewing and technical illustration using Adobe Illustrator. She enjoys setting the scene through mood boards and visual storytelling, always guided by a clear sense of her design aesthetic.
Currently, she is further developing her pattern cutting abilities and experimenting with material research and layering techniques. Her creative process begins with visualizing concepts and building mood boards, which then evolve through fabric selection or draping, leading organically to textile and garment design.
CONCEPT
Redrum is a collection inspired by in the obsession with horror movies and the way beauty can be haunting. It’s a love letter to eerie, unsettling femininity where soft, romantic shapes meet something a little more twisted.
The collection plays with dramatic, exaggerated silhouettes puffy sleeves, tight corseting, and flowing ghost-like fabrics. For fabrics the use of lace, satin and tulle is contrasted with the roughness of a variety of leathers including fish leather. Orchid prints run through the collection, not the typical delicate kind of flower but with a unsettling twist, almost as if the flowers are watching you. Featuring a palette of opposing aggressive colours like bloody red, burgundy, black, sweet apricot ballet pink, and antique white, the pieces create an harmonious balance through haunting colours, that drag you into a dream… or nightmare.
An unerving texture is added to the collection by the use of fishscales of an amazonian fish called Paiche fish, native to Peru, creating a haunting dangling sound when moving the embroidered fabric. Re using fish scales through processes like dyeing and varnishing, help replace the typical plastic paillette with a biodegradable natural option, and reducing waste.
Each piece is designed to create a ghostly vibe by the use of heavy textures and light, sheer and floating fabric creates this outer body experience.
Redrum is all about that contrast, romantic and blood-curdling , soft and sharp, delicate but resilient.
7. Sofia Rukina
Hailing from Russia, Sofia Rukina is a bold and intuitive designer whose work spans menswear, textile manipulation, and visual storytelling. Her fascination with identity, transformation, and the power of self-expression through clothing led her to pursue fashion design. For Sofia, garments are more than aesthetics they are tools that influence how we move, feel, and perceive ourselves. Her interests in psychology, philosophy, and physical practices like yoga feed into her creative process, offering a deeper, more holistic approach to design.
Describing her style as unapologetic, textured, and bold, Sofia creates emotionally charged pieces with a distinct attitude and presence. Her strength lies in developing innovative textiles and combining them with a strong visual identity through styling. With each collection, she seeks to evoke energy and provoke thought, using fashion as a medium for introspection, empowerment, and reinvention.
CONCEPT
“Bandit 90’s” is a bold luxury streetwear menswear collection inspired by post-Soviet Russia’s criminal subcultures, where power, rebellion, and chaos defined an era. The narrative is shaped by real historical references, police archives, slang, and fashion codes of the time — reimagined with a modern, luxury twist.
This collection is for a man who leads with confidence. It's timeless and empowers the wearer with unique personal style. Oversized silhouettes combined with loose and structured elements. Paneled spray painted heavyweight leather and toweling, billion dollar textile-money, authority embroidery, heat-gun leather boils and relaxed tailoring. Creating a visual and tactile tension between comfort and control — a nod to the duality of power and vulnerability within the bandit archetype.
A consistent thread runs through the collection with deep burgundy and red appearing in strategic doses. Various shades of blue and green are repeated throughout, evoking uniforms, urban grit, and forested escape routes, all of which ground the narrative and tie the looks together with cohesion.
Material choices like — ribbed cottons, loopback jerseys, wool, and leather- push traditional materials further through manipulation and experimentation, allowing texture and surface to tell their own story within the garments. Each piece is deeply connected to the narrative.
Using fashion as a statement on society’s corruption and the relentless desire for authority.
8. Sofiia Kovalska
Sofia Kovalska is a London-based womenswear designer originally from Ukraine, known for blending handcraft with cultural storytelling. Her work explores the space between the mortal and spiritual worlds, drawing on mythology, memory, and material form. Her collection "Mavka and Molfar" reimagines Ukrainian folklore through hand-woven textiles, inspired by the forest nymph Mavka and Carpathian shaman Molfar.
She has been featured in fashion magazines and showcased at London Fashion Week. Sofia’s designs resonate with those who seek depth, symbolism, and slow fashion in contemporary fashion.
CONCEPT
This collection, "Mavka and Molfar," draws inspiration from Ukrainian mythological creatures symbols of the mortal and spiritual worlds.
The narrative revolves around the dualism of these mythic beings: the spirit of the forest, a young woman named Mavka, and the wise shaman Molfar. It interprets, through contemporary design, how garments communicate with nature and the spiritual world. Ukrainian folklore clothing is translated into a modern style while maintaining traditional techniques. Cotton jersey stripes are cut down and woven to incorporate vibrant colours reds, blues, and yellows drawn from shamanic folk garments. The woven chunky yarns are constructed to shape silhouettes in long dresses, skirts, and oversized overcoats, representing both the intricate mortality and the soft, flowing immaterial world of spirits.
The technique used to create the garments ensures no fabric waste by working with rectangular shapes, which are then moulded into patterns. Each piece is designed to be bold and adaptable.
This unique style emphasises freedom of movement, embracing the popularisation of Ukrainian culture and showcasing Molfar's charm infused with Ukrainian tradition.
9. Thierry Nicolas Rüetschi
The Thierry Rüetschi is a Swiss emerging fashion designer driven by a strong curiosity for inventive pattern cutting and sculptural form. Drawing inspiration from the arts and the emotional nuances of everyday life - such as moments of angst, hope, or visual stimulation - he weaves these elements into a distinctive narrative approach to design.
His process often begins with intuitive draping, allowing spontaneous shapes to emerge as the foundation for innovative pattern development. With a clear creative vision, Thierry is committed to crafting garments that communicate through their structure—pieces that not only clothe the body but also tell a story.
CONCEPT
The New Renaissance collection is a bold exploration of strength, protection, and rebirth, drawing inspiration from the enduring legacy of Roman heritage, the sculptural elegance of Renaissance art, and a fearless vision of the future.
Silhouettes are architecturally constructed: some are built from wide, interwoven bands that form voluminous, sculptural shapes, while others mimic the anatomical structure of the human musculature, blending fashion with the raw beauty of the body’s natural strength.
Contrasting materials create a dynamic tension: rigid fabrics like cork and tarpaulin evoke armor and resilience, while lighter textiles such as poplin introduce movement and fluidity. Playing with 3-meter-long and wide interlaced denim stripes gives shape to an oversized cage dress that maximises the silhouette, expanding proportions for modern petticoats. A grounded palette of earthy browns and olives is elevated by flashes of reflective silver, achieving a visual balance between the ancient allure and futuristic visions.
At its core, this collection envisions a post-apocalyptic renaissance, a celebration of survival and transformation. Garments serve as modern armor, empowering the wearer with a sense of confidence, protection, and liberated identity. The new renaissance is a tribute to the individual who embraces vulnerability as strength and carves space for freedom in the world to come.
10. Aniket Chandela
Aniket Chandela is a Fashion Design student from India whose work is a thoughtful blend of heritage and innovation. Deeply inspired by the richness of Indian culture, Aniket views fashion as a storytelling medium—one that can modernise tradition while honouring its roots. Through fabric, silhouette, and craft, he seeks to reinterpret cultural symbols in contemporary forms, offering a refined yet deeply symbolic aesthetic.
Outside of fashion, Aniket draws creative influence from art, mythology, architecture, and historical narratives. These interests enrich his design language, allowing him to craft garments that are not only visually compelling but conceptually layered. His approach is rooted in strong concept development, seamlessly merging India’s artisanal legacy with modern design sensibilities. With a style that can be described as rooted, refined, and symbolic, Aniket creates fashion that tells stories—bridging the past with the present through elegance and intention.
CONCEPT
The collection Vishnu ki Virasat, is a unique blend of traditional mythology with contemporary fashion inspired by the ten avatars of Vishnu, one of the principal deities in Hinduism, Each piece in the collection represents Vishnu's avatars, capturing their essence through intricate designs and luxurious fabrics both timeless and modern.
The silhouettes are featuring tailored fits, flowing drapes, and structured elements harmoniously .These designs pay homage to cultural heritage, Indian weavers and embroiders allowing to embrace the roots while making a bold, elegant, versatile and contemporary fashion statement. A mix between tailored suits, bomber jackets, long tailored coats are made with flowing Luxurious fabrics such as satin, silk crepe and crepe twill to add a touch of opulence and authenticity. The colour palette is rich and vibrant, drawn from the hues associated with each avatar, including deep blues, golds and whites. Intricate embroidery and detailed embellishments highlight the divine aspects, with motifs made with Zari, cut dana, zardozi that reflect unique stories and powers. Crafted by blending traditional Indian techniques with modern aesthetics.
The vision of the collection is to bridge the gap between cultural heritage and contemporary fashion, ensuring that every garment is not just worn but experienced as a piece of living art that values Indian craft and heritage.
Photographer: Natalie Rajska
