I decided to make use of my blog for a good cause.
Recently thousands of students took to the streets of london in protest against the rise in tuition fees.
To my understanding the government have chosen to raise the fees drastically because they are cutting the spending money given to universities.
Me and the other students on my course could not attend this march unfortunately due to the fact we have a deadline due, and we were and still are working hard in order to get a good mark and make the most of our creativity.
We work this hard because our university has done for a number of years, taken part in London Graduate Fashion Week every year and every year, 15 students are chosen to show their final collection.
This is an amazing opportunity and we all work this hard because we aim to get into the 15 places.
However on the same day as the march, we found out we aren't going to be going to GFW because our university doesn't have the funding to send us there because of the spending cuts.
You may think fair enough, it's just fashion. but it isn't just fashion, it gets us jobs, it gives you clothes, it gives our economy room to grow and without new graduates showing at GFW, the British Fashion industry will suffer massively! Not just that, our university will suffer because the fact we go to GFW is a big draw for the fashion design course and the fashion and textile design course. Without this at the end, the next generation of fashion students will simply chose to go to a university that does go to GFW and so the course will be dropped.
Look around you, what you are wearing is fashion, it was created by someone who studied at university with the funding provided for them to make sure they had the best equipment possible.
without it, nothing.
There are no photos in this message because that is what the future will become.
dull and empty. Creativity will cease to exist in the most drastic possible scenario.
what do you choose?
