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Matty Bovan Visiting Speaker

The other module we are doing this semester is around  Professional Development.  This includes branding, CV's, finding a job, networking, business planning and such like.... all very relevant for most of my peers but less so for myself as a mature student.  That's not to say I don't look forward to the experience though.  I do hope to set up a business later this year so much of what we do and how it might be done will be very relevant to my intended venture.

The module kicked of to a great start with a presentation by Matty Bovan an established fashion designer - he does completely wonderful creations which are interesting, wacky, clever and very inspirational.   https://www.mattybovan.com/


The presentation documented his meteoric rise from Leeds College of Art to St Martins and then via Louis Vuitton back to reality setting up a fashion studio in his home town of York where he works from now producing collections which are shown at London Fashion week  and other prestigious venues across the globe.  I loved his almost pretentious lack of pretentiousness as he uses fabrics bought from Boyes (my fav shop) and believes that not all fashion revolves around London and Paris!!   Obviously he shops other places (he did an amazing Tweed collection)  as well but believes in sourcing local and British products and everything he sends down the cat walk has been manufactured at his studio in York supported by a small local team which includes his parents.

After lunch Matty offered to give one to one tutorials to students who were interested and I was lucky enough to be one of those students.  Its quite daunting baring your work to someone so talented and with such off the wall ideas but he was kindly critical and incredibly encouraging...   it was an thought provoking experience and fun to meet such an interesting chap.


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