Live Conversations: Fashion Futures, Emerging Designers (Live at the V&A)

This discussion will explore how emerging designers can build a career in a challenging industry and what the role of a present day and future Fashion designer looks like.

Live Conversations are devised in collaboration with the V&A Youth Collective exploring topical themes important to the group.

This event will be live streamed to online audiences from the V&A Museum. Book a ticket on this page to join the event live at the museum, or sign up here to watch the conversation online.

Tickets may be available on the door. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Abiola Onabulé is a London-based fashion designer with a master’s degree in womenswear from Central Saint Martins. Celebrating form through silhouette, abstracting, and cutting techniques, she is interested in the crafts and practices of Nigerian textile culture, personal narratives and processes of making as ‘acts of care'

Fashion and textiles graduate of Lithuanian origin, Erika Janavi creates surrealist couture, inspired by Victorian silhouettes and profuse attention to detail. Her style is romantic, playful, elegant and sensual. Her designs are constructed almost exclusively from antique & vintage fabrics and trimmings. Erika’s philosophy and vision is to create garments that are exquisite, evocative & timeless, garments with a classic aesthetic and the appearance of genuine age, yet made with a contemporary eye. All pieces are lovingly hand crafted & embroidered with a strong emphasis on self sustainability.

Photography credit for Erika Janavi image on right
Model - Leili St Clair, Photographer -Morrigan Rawson, Make up - Shivika Tiwari
Supported by the Drapers Charitable Company.