Of course a great effort was put forth, without a doubt. Upon closer inspection I feel there was strong innovation from the textile designs, which might have gone unnoticed by most. It was dissappointing to see that my favorite 2 collections also did not make the graduate show. I guess why we are the critics and they are the professors! Regardless best of luck in the near future to the class of 17 and may your creativity compel you to success! SPITGAN is watching!

不過實際上，我對作品卻有一絲失望。主要是每個系列都太過相似，用色偏暗、Layer的造型、西服外套..有一兩個系列我寧願將他們結合為一組。雖然如此，有三個系列也倒是很有趣的。

第一個是Dale To的Moth，雪紡印上橫間，透視入面的直間恤衫，從而產生少許模糊的視覺效果。拼接格仔和和直間的上衣產生對比，看久了可能會有點頭暈，哈哈！另一個是Fa Leung的Conceal掩飾。如果你當日在場，肯定記得頭頂燈罩的這個系列。我特別喜歡他重新演譯了日本和服的感覺，由其那對「4腳鞋」。還有一個John Ng的Mismatch。將西裝當下身或許是個old story，但我喜歡再加上超高腰吊帶褲的男子，好像英國那些年老紳士般，高貴、成熟、優雅。特別一提他用的布料品質很好，是眾多系列中最讓我留意到的。

也許DI的作品未必是最令我驚訝的創作，但他們的作品可穿程度較高，品質也不錯。他們雖然少了一份天馬行空的奇想，卻多了一份踏實穩重。我想這個是兩個Style的學院風格吧！

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So the next gen is graduating! Graduation season is upon us! Our full squad went to attend the HKDI graduation show and see what this year’s crop was all about. First plus? This backstage was organized as F! It was a calm, smooth ship of teams working together. No stress, no frantic nervousness in the air…Truly impressive. Even shows in Paris didn’t look this cool! Who was responsible for this? Continued in Part 2.

我想，在香港讀Fashion，Poly U和HKDI肯定是兩大巨頭。每年他們的 graduation show 都吸引不少行內行外的人。上次去過Poly的Grad Show，令我更加期待HKDI的表現。因為我覺得HKDI的應該比其他院校更有優勢、更多人材。因為DI除了時裝課程，還有造型、舞台、燈光、攝影、PR、傳媒、Event planning等課程，肯定能夠豐富整個Show吧！今次的Grad Show更加聯同其他科一齊搞展覽，一次過展示出DI培訓出來自優勢人材。真不能想像到底每年有多少創意在這個地方發生！

第二部分繼續—>

Photos : Nick D for precursorprints.com

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