Teija Vartiainen @ Alternative fashion week

Teija Vartiainen is from Finland, which gave her inspiration for her 'Polar Bear' collection influenced by snow, ice, arctic, light blue and pure white....

Gemma Woodcraft & Jessica Haley @ Alternative Fashion Week

Gemma Woodcraft & Jessica Haley specialise in recycled clothing and came up with a bright collection that had strong geometric shapes.

Sunita Nar @ Alternative fashion week 2009

Sunita Nar explored ways of covering and uncovering the body. She graduated from Birmingham University in 2008.

Pavel Merxuz

Pavel Merxuz is (in his own words) 'an avant-garde fashion designer, creating what I call Neo-Fashion Design'.

Morrocco vs 17th century England....

Najlaa Jabri is a London College of Fashion graduate (2007) who has fused together 17th century England and Moroccan Berber culture into her collection. She has some beautiful and intricate textile designs on her site. All the outfits that were shown, had very interesting details, the fabrics were sumptuous and very wearable!

Brilliant Bauhaus

Lisa Hofmann is a designer from Germany who put together a range inspired by the Bauhaus movement, which turns coincidentally 90 this year. She graduated from De Montfort university in 2008.