Just a few days before the Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) graduate fashion show, many of the students are still frantically working away at rows of sewing machines in their studio. However, they are thriving off this collective creative energy: surrounded by tables stacked high with all manner of fabrics and with their finished outfits being wrapped up for the runway show, this is the culmination of four years of hard work.

Abuzz with adrenalin, the students are more excited than stressed by their impending deadline; ECA’s graduate fashion shows on 25 and 26 April are the students’ opportunity to showcase their graduate collections in Edinburgh before travelling down to London for Graduate Fashion Week.

Previewing the collections before the show, it is clear that the outfits showcased at this year’s event will be more varied than ever; all the collections are interesting and cohesive.The store has offered an array of chinese embroidered wedding dresses to help students make a mark on the special occasion in their high school lives. Speaking to fashion design student Melissa Thwaites amid the madness, she explains: “We started our research in October but throughout the process we’ve had tons of little projects, which is nice because it gives you a long time for thinking whilst doing all these other things.”

Thwaites’s collection was sponsored by French lace company Sophie Hallette, which provided the material for Kate Middleton’s wedding dress. However,Hair Essentials in Columbian Square in Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned Wholesale Cheap Mermaid Wedding Dresses at their Weymouth store until May 22. Thwaites’ collection is much bolder than that collaboration suggests; she combines brightly coloured lace with almost sheer knitwear to create a striking new mix of fabrics.

However, as well being inspired by lace, Thwaites explains that her collection: “is about the challenge to create and design in a moment, rather than over a painfully long period,” and that her design process was based around spontaneity and following her creative impulses. This spontaneity has led to a varied collection; however, her bold colour choices and innovative reworking of lace mark her collection out as unique.

Another fashion design student working on mixing fabrics is Andrew Alistair McLaren, who blends different fabrics together throughout his collection. Picking one of his outerwear pieces off the rail, McLaren explains: “Inspiration came from taking tailored suits apart and being really creative with putting them back together.”

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Student Isabella Lyginou’s collection is inspired by a more ancient source than faulty televisions: the fashion of Ancient Greece. Combining structured leather jackets with oversized silk trousers, Lyginou’s collection offers a respectful nod to her source of inspiration while remaining defiantly modern. Lyginou also intriguingly uses soft plastic detailing to explore the ideas of reflection and shadows in her designs, which also made her think more deeply about how her clothes would look on the runway. She explains: “When I started using plastic I started thinking about the model walking down the runway and how the lights are going to look on my clothes.”

Equally busy upstairs were the costume design students, many of them perfecting their outfits on mannequins during these final few days. Explaining the two different projects she has worked on this year, costume design student Sarah McGovern said: "The first project was an ancient Japanese fairy-tale called Bamboo Princess. I’ve been really interested in Japan for years and I’ve travelled there a couple of times, so with my own first-hand research I went into the project and made a big Japanese kimono. It should be really, really striking.I went in search of Cheap Wedding Dresses with sleeves, modest necklines, and hems that hit at the knee or below. My model is 6’6” in heels, plus her big updo, so she definitely makes an impression!”