Bite Autumn 2012

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GRADUATE FASHIONWEEK: WHAT HAPPENS ONCETHE SHOW IS OVER? CORRINE MCCONNACHIE SPEAKS TOA NUMBER OF STUDENTS AND

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EXPLORES THE PREDICAMENTS FACING FASHION GRADUATES IN THE CURRENT JOB MARKET. A fter the mortar boards have been tossed in the air, and the champagne has been drunk, the celebration is very much over for today’s graduates. For the 340,000 graduates entering the job market this year competition is incredibly high, especially in the fast paced, teeming fashion industry. With statistics showing more than 200,000 graduates out of work since leaving university last year, how does the class of

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2012 plan to break into an industry already brimming with talent? The Bite Magazine visited Graduate Fashion Week, the event famed for kick starting the career of Burberry’s Christopher Bailey, to speak to students from a variety of fashion based courses about their university experience, feelings on graduation and plans for the future. Each of the 42 British universities which showcased at the annual event had provided their students with the skills essential to

industry survival but how prepared do graduates really feel for life outside the university bubble? University of Northumbria menswear designer, Charlotte Sowerby said, “After all the excitement and all the hard work it feels strange to graduate.You wonder what am I going to do now, what is the next chapter going to be?” Lauren Donachie, Fashion Design graduate from Cleveland College of Art said, “I cried after we handed our work in; graduating is scary. I really hope