The photographer
Work exhibited nationally and internationally. Album covers. Attitude, i-D, The Face, NME, Tank. She still writes on photography, commissions, and curates public programmes.
CSVPA Cambridge · U.K.
The Rector, and the people who run the rooms.
Karin Askham leads the college. Carolyn Timson opened Hearst to the BA. The Graduate School is Edward Dimsdale’s. Pathway leaders who still make sit under them.
Professor Karin Askham · Rector, CSVPA
The Rector
A maker who ran London’s media school. Then this one.
Karin Askham is a photographic practitioner by origin. The work has sat in leading art institutions, on album sleeves, and in the magazines a fashion student already knows — i-D, The Face, NME, Attitude, Tank.
She spent over five years as Dean of the School of Media at London College of Communication, UAL: photography, sound, film and television, journalism, publishing. Before that, Associate Dean of the Graduate School at London College of Fashion.
The world’s first BA and MA in Fashion Photography were hers. CSVPA is the college she chose to lead. The industry connections she names in the welcome are not a brochure line. They are the rooms she has already sat in.
The work before the title
Four rooms that made the Rector.
UAL, before Cambridge
Nearly thirty years in senior university roles. Dean of the School of Media at London College of Communication. Associate Dean of the Graduate School at London College of Fashion.
Fashion photography, first
She founded the world’s first BA and MA in Fashion Photography at UAL — courses now imitated worldwide. The staged moment, taught as a practice.
Beyond the studio
Judging panels for international art and photographic awards. Projects with NGOs, including Jay-Z’s Shawn Carter Foundation. The brief is never only the college.
“Many of our staff have experience working within the creative industries, which shapes the structure of our courses so that what we teach is relevant to current and future industry practices. Our industry connections also set us apart.”
Pathway leaders
Fashion, space, image, stage, sound.
The people who run the diploma and undergraduate rooms. Carolyn Timson — Tommy Hilfiger Global VP of Design — opened the Hearst partnership to the BA.
Head of Fashion
Professor Holly Fulton
Edinburgh College of Art, then the RCA. Her own label since 2009. Elle New Designer. British Fashion Awards Emerging Talent. Teaches on BA Fashion.
Director of Fashion
Simon Thorogood
Among the first designers to bring digital technology into fashion practice. Garments in the V&A. Research-led, across museums, studios and commercial houses.
Pathway Leader, Fashion Design
Dennic Lo
RCA graduate. Taught at the Royal College of Art and held a senior course-leading post at UAL. Betty Jackson. ASOS Head of Product Development. A GFW selection judge. Two books on pattern cutting.
Pathway Leader, Fashion Communication
Chloe Ward
Illustrator and creative researcher. Luxury fashion management and visual merchandising before Cambridge. Coordinates Foundation and Extended Diploma — January intake included.
Course Lead, Fashion Branding & Creative Communication
Carolyn Timson
Kingston, then Italy and Japan. A decade at Tommy Hilfiger, including Global Vice President of Design. Hackett, AWWG. She opened the Hearst partnership to BA students — Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Fendi, Burberry, Miu Miu, The New York Times in the briefs.
Pathway Leader, Architecture & Interior
Dr Reenie Elliot
Architect. PhD, ARB, RIBA. Studios at Richard Meier, Tod Williams Billie Tsien, Jean Nouvel, Odile Decq, David Chipperfield, Rick Mather. Restoring a Grade II Norfolk villa. Publishes on contested cities.
Pathway Leader, Graphics & Illustration
Gavin Jones
Twenty years in commercial graphic design. Norwich School of Art. His own studio since 2006. Volvo, Cadbury, Tesco, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer — work that has sat on shelves, on television, in the press.
Head of Drama
Rachel Ellis
Actor, director, tutor. Associate of the National Youth Theatre since 2005. Shakespeare Schools Festival director training. Cambridge Junction, Clean Break, Apocryphal Theatre.
Dean of Student Experience · Musical Theatre
Elizabeth Nantais
Associate conductor and vocal coach — Fosse, Hair, Sweet Charity, Hairspray. Two master’s degrees, Arizona State and NYU. Pathway leader for Musical Theatre.
Pathway Leader, Music
Vijay Prakash
Chetham’s, then a BA at the University of Cambridge, then Guildhall for jazz. Trombone with All Saints, The Chemical Brothers, Glastonbury, Ronnie Scott’s. End-of-year recitals in University of Cambridge rooms.
The Graduate School
Master’s rooms. The same college, a different year.
Head of School Edward Dimsdale. Course leaders for MA Visual Communication and MA Fashion. Moving image at the RCA standard. Hearst sits in the master’s year — and, because Carolyn asked, in the BA as well.
Head of the Graduate School
Professor Edward Dimsdale
Professor of Art & Contemporary Visual Culture. A decade at LCC teaching photography theory. Represented by HackelBury Fine Art since 1998. Stilled, Stanley/Barker. Partnerships with the University of Cambridge and UCL sit in the graduate year.
Course Leader, MA Visual Communication
Martin Andersen
Royal College of Art. Vaughan Oliver at v23, then his own studio. Two Gold Lions at Cannes. Films for Channel 4 and Discovery. Lectured at Central Saint Martins. Twenty international awards in film and animation.
Course Leader, MA Fashion Design & MA Fashion Branding
Jens Laugesen
Chambre Syndicale, Institut Français de la Mode, then CSM under Louise Wilson. Observer: London’s answer to Helmut Lang. First London designer to win ANDAM, with LVMH. Consultant to Calvin Klein Collection, J Mendel, Net-a-Porter.
Lecturer, Graduate School · Moving Image
Ali Aschman
Artist and filmmaker. MFA Chicago, MA Animation at the RCA. Shadow Passage — Vimeo Staff Pick, Zealous Stories Animation Prize. Drawing, sculpture, stop-motion. Pathway leader for Animation & Film on the diplomas.
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