The Masters Fashion Promenade 2006 at Glasgow School of Art in December showcased work by nine postgraduate students from around the world studying MDes Textiles as Fashion.

The course is an advanced skills postgraduate programme designed to meet the ambitions of textile design graduates who wish to inspire and assert fashion from textiles-outward rather than silhouette inward. 
 
Vien le Wood, who won the EMreco Textile Award at Graduate Fashion Week in 2003/04 and the Fashion at Belsay Fellowship, presented her “Salacious Salome” collection with the bejewelled femme fatale in mind.

Maud Malone’s re-cycled Zimbabwean street fashion, incorporating Irn Bru bottle caps and batik design, for her collection while Anir Mallik from Calcutta created a wearable women’s collection of bleached white and opaque blacks.

In contrast Mhairi McNicol’s collection features highly skilled hand-embroidered mid thigh dresses and extravagant swing coats in brightly coloured velvet. 

Anya Barry’s collection is designed for grown up sexy women with a mischievous spark while Natalie McLeod’s figure-flattering dresses use print to emphasise the waist and draw attention away from the hips. 

Laura Vickers created a layered look with translucent gauze and crochet and Fiona Glen transformed the traditional tuxedo into a feminine knit using silk, viscose and lambs-wool within a monochrome colour palette, bridging the divide between high concept and wear-ability.

In menswear Harry Tosch Gillan’s collection combined the formal and casual featuring clever tailoring with quirky fabric – a cotton jersey top is printed to look like a chunky hand-knitted jumper and the finest kid mohair suiting is roughed up with a fake fur camouflage print to produce a swaggering parka jacket.