Charlotte Simpson's collection on the catwalk at the MA Show. Image: Chris Moore/ Catwalking.com

Vauxhall Fashion Scout, the internationally recognised home of new talent has announced today it has snapped up three London College of Fashion MA_12 graduates for their forthcoming AW12/13 season.

Joseph Turvey, Charlotte Simpson and Christina Hamilton will present their collections with Vauxhall Fashion Scout at LFW later this month, after only showcasing their work as part of the LCF MA_12 Season just a week ago.

Joseph Turvey, MA Fashion Design Technology – Menswear has been selected as part of the line up for Ones to Watch MEN, while Fellow MA Fashion Design Technology – Womenswear graduate Charlotte Simpson and MA Fashion Artefact graduate and winner of the Leathersellers’ Company Business Start Up Award Christina Hamilton have both been selected for the AW12/13 presentation, where their collections will be presented to international fashion press, industry and buyers.

Joseph Turvey's collection on the catwalk at the MA show. Image: Chris Moore / Catwalking.com

Specifically tailored to the men’s market on LFW’s dedicated Menswear day, Ones To Watch MEN is a collaborative platform for four of the hottest new talents, selected by panel of industry experts. This season the Judging Panel included Katy England, Holly Shackleton Editor of i-D, Jessica Bumpus of Vogue.com, Style Bubble’s Susie Lau, Marios Schwab, Felder Felder, David Koma Hanna Emslie from Selfridges Zara Martin for Village Bicycle, Rebekah Roy, and Vauxhall Fashion Scout´s Founder and Director Martyn Roberts.

Martyn Roberts, Founder of Vauxhall Fashion Scout commented:

This season, the selection of Ones To Watch MEN is an enthusing, stimulating line up of new names. The hugely successful launch of the Ones To Watch MEN initiative at London Fashion Week has seen great talents, including T.Lipop, Baartmans and Siegel and Asger Juel Larsen launch their labels into the rapidly evolving menswear market. OTW MEN is a powerful vehicle promoting, supporting and presenting to the industry new names.

Christina Hamilton's saddlery designs displayed on a bicyle

Joseph, Charlotte and Christina join fellow LCF graduates William Tempest, Ada Zanditon, Nova Chiu, Baartmans and Siegel, Young Lilee, Asger Juel Larson and Jennifer Morris – all of whom have been selected by Vauxhall Fashion Scout over the last couple of years for their pioneering programme which offers unique showcasing opportunities via catwalk shows, salon shows, presentations or exhibitions, whilst also offering the designers business support and sponsorship opportunities.

• Read more about Vauxhall Fashion Scout: Ones to Watch MEN
• Read more about the LCF MA_12 season

We caught up with the front row of our 2012 MA Show on the importance of new talent, the rise of live streaming and how important LCF is to the industry. Lauren Laverne, Grayson Perry, Susie Bubble and more share their thoughts on another exciting crop of graduates for LCF.

• Produced and edited by Nicholas Smith and Karyee Cheung – BA Fashion Journalism students

We spoke to staff, students, press and industry guests at the Private View of our MA_12 exhibition at Victoria House Basement.

• Produced and edited by Nicholas Smith and Karyee Cheung – BA Fashion Journalism students

Last night’s MA Catwalk Show 2012 had a packed audience including the Rt Hon Home Secretary Theresa May MP. Beamed live across the world on the LCF website and award winning website Not Just A Label, this years’ menswear and womenswear designers took to the catwalk.

As well as the Rt Hon Home Secretary Theresa May MP, the front row held celebrities and VIPs including DJ Jodie Harsh, rising star singer Ren Harvieu, Mollie King from girl group The Saturdays, Turner prize winning artist Grayson Perry, Chairman of the British Fashion Council Harold Tillman CBE, Made in Chelsea star Francis Boulle, designer Hasan Hejazi, fashion illustrator David Downton, band members from Niki & The Dove and the beautiful Lauren Laverne, who also announced the evenings two awards alongside award winning fashion designer Christopher Raeburn.

At the end of the catwalk show, TV and radio personality Lauren Laverne hosted the award presentations. With the help of young British designer Christopher Raeburn, recent winner of the British Fashion Council’s award for best ‘Emerging Talent – Menswear’, she announced that the winner of Menswear: Collection of the Year was Tina Elisabeth Reiter – whose modern, fresh and innovative collection was inspired by her Austrian heritage.

The winner of Womenswear: Collection of the Year was Hana Cha from Seoul in South Korea, who produced a show-stopping collection of exquisite womenswear featuring luxurious golds and purples, that required hours of painstaking hand embroidery.

The LCF MA show has gained a strong reputation for launching careers and the class of 2012 have already made waves. Shaftesbury PLC, a long term LCF partner who helped make LCF’s first ever pop up shop ‘COLLEGE SHOP’ possible, were so impressed by last night’s show that they have committed to a brand new scholarship to nurture new students. The Shaftesbury MA Scholarship will run from 2012-14 inclusive and will be open to all those studying for an MA at London College of Fashion.

Images by Alex Maguire.

Stine Riis, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear 2011 graduate has won the H&M design award. The award was announced at Stockholm’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week yesterday.

• Read more about the H&M Design Award